Astellia, a leading provider of monitoring solutions for the optimization of mobile network QoS and QoE, has recently told OSS News Review about the launch of Neptune, its new generation of intelligent and high capacity IP probing systems. The first release, Neptune for Gn, is designed to help operators monitor and optimize their mobile broadband networks and deal with the traffic surge.

With Neptune, as a key element in Astellia’s Packet Services solution, mobile operators will:

– Understand subscribers’ packet services usage & behavior,
– Greatly improve user experience for multiple services with unique QoE KPIs,
– Troubleshoot problems impacting subscribers,
– Optimize mobile network performance and QoS.

Dedicated to User Plane and service monitoring, Neptune Gn complements Astellia’s Ocean probing product line with increased capture and processing performance. The new platform performs data capture over 1GE or 10GE Ethernet links.

Neptune embeds a whole set of intelligent technologies such as:

– Innovative Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to classify data traffic and identify the various applications used for every session such as YouTube, Facebook and Skype,
– User Plane traffic and session summaries for usage analysis and fault management,
– Highly flexible User Plane targeting and sampling.

This technology is essential to handle the increasing amount of data to be analyzed on PS networks and help operators optimize monitoring investments.

More importantly, Neptune will generate rich business intelligence used by multiple teams and applications such as Optimization, Customer Care, Supervision, Marketing and Management.

Astellia is a leading expert in monitoring and optimization solutions for the Quality of Service (QoS) and performance of mobile networks. The company develops, manufactures and sells its solutions to 179 operators and equipment manufacturers in more than 80 countries.

Headquartered in France, Astellia has offices in Paris, New York, Singapore, Beirut, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Mumbai.

Astellia solutions integrate its long experience and knowledge of operators’ needs to cover 2G/2.5G/3G/3.5G… technologies from radio access to core network. They help to increase client income through fast access to relevant indicators, with a view to improving Quality of Service and ensuring subscribers’ loyalty.
The company also provides network audit services, training, technical assistance, etc.