Protocols and interfaces

Supported network technologies and codecs

Our solutions offer powerful, multi-protocol functionality and help ensure smooth deployment and troubleshooting.

By simulating traffic from the Radio Access Network (RAN) we help CSPs and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) to simplify performance and quality analysis, assert full control over their networks, manage upgrade projects and confirm compatibility between different nodes.

Supported network technologies 

With our solutions you can simulate UE traffic towards 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G mobile core networks.

• AoIP
• Iu-CS
• IuPS
• S1
• MAP
• S11
• >S5
• SWu
• N1/N2
• N3/N6
• N4

Supported codecs

The following codecs are supported

• G711A/U (NB)
  • 10/20/30 ms packetisation
  • Support for Comfort Noise RFC3389
• PCMA/U (NB)
• GSM-HR (NB)
• GSM-FR (NB)
• GSM-EFR (NB)
• AMR-HR (NB), AMR-FR (NB), FR-AMR-WB
  • Supports incoming rate control/mode change
  • Can change mode and request rate control on outgoing
• UMTS-AMR (NB), UMTS-AMR2 (NB), UMTS-AMR-WB (WB)
  • Supports incoming rate control/mode change
  • All rates
• AMR (NB), AMR-WB (WB)
  • All rates
  • Octet-aligned format
  • 20 ms packetisation
• Video codec
  • H.264
• G729A (NB)
  • 10/20 packetisation
  • Annex B (“DTX”) support
• G722 (WB)
• OPUS (NB, WB)
  • CBR support
• EVS (NB, WB, SWB, FB)
  • Both formats Primary and AMRWBIO supported
  • All rates
  • Support for Compact Header and Header Full

Application technologies

Our solutions are designed for comprehensive application server testing and support a large number of application protocols.

• Application server protocols
• Integration and Support Servers
• Radius/Diameter, RTP/RTSP/RTMP Streaming, HTTP Streaming, and SIP/MSRP extensions (as additional packages)

As well as in-built support for existing protocols, support for new or different interfaces can be added quickly and easily. Different protocol operations can be mixed together in test cases enabling realistic simulation of user behaviour.

Protocols

The following protocols are supported. Check individual product specifications for further details

• IPv4 and IPv6
• HTTP/1.1
• HTTP/2
• Asynchronous HTTP
• Web Sockets
• HTTP Pipelining Tasks*
• HTTP Streaming Tasks*
• RTP/ RTSP/ RTMP Streaming Tasks*
• Telnet
• SSH
• File Transfer Program (FTP)
• Network Utility (echo, Ping, DNS etc.)
• Directory Server (LDAP)
• Database (JDBC)
• Mail (IMAP, POP3, SMTP)
• SMPP*
• Generic Bootstrapping Architecture Ua/Ub*
• Radius*
• Diameter
  (Rf, Rx, Gx, Gy, Zh, Zx, SWx, SWm/S6b, S6a/ S6d, Sh, Sd)*
• RTP/ RTSP/ RTMP Streaming*
• SIP*
• MSRP*

* As licensed

Integration and support servers

The Enterprise Developers Edition license also supports Radius/Diameter, RTP/RTSP/RTMP Streaming, HTTP Streaming, and SIP/MSRP extensions, which are available as additional packages

• Pure HSS Simulator
• Pure PCRF Simulator