Matrium Technologies Optimizer 2016 traffic capture device

Because of 4G’s multitechnology nature, correct monitoring strategies pre- and post-deployment are essential to prevent issues of service availability, network downtime and resultant customer churn. The VSS Monitoring Network Monitoring 2.0 solution for 4G/LTE includes the Optimizer 2016, a scalable and flexible intelligent traffic capture device for networks from 10 Mbps to 10 GigE.

Optimizer 2016 provides session-aware load balancing, a technology that maintains network session integrity to the monitoring infrastructure, allowing users to deploy multiple 1 Gb analytical tools to monitor a 10 GigE line, ensuring full coverage.

Hardware-based filtering allows users to filter traffic at line rate by address and protocols; users can also create custom filters. It supports vStack+, VSS’s intelligent stacking technology, which enables traffic capture devices to be deployed in a redundant, low-latency mesh for total, dynamic, fault-tolerant visibility that scales to even the largest networks.

The VSS Monitoring 4G/LTE solution addresses the issue of the high costs of rollouts for large carriers and the need to fully utilise spectrum and other assets. Other factors driving the need for wider and deeper network monitoring include the interdependencies among legacy 2G/3G and 4G networks, as well as the complexity of IP over legacy systems. The VSS solution is claimed to provide each network analysis tool with exactly the traffic it is designed to analyse, ensuring total coverage as well as optimising the monitoring infrastructure’s ROI and minimising the costs of third-party analysis tools.