OSIX Taps Elisa Polystar to Unlock Control Plane Traffic Monitoring

OSIX Monitoring & Troubleshooting provides advanced monitoring functionality that includes network tracing and troubleshooting for all interfaces in the mobile and IMS Control Plane – and enables CSPs to detect and resolve network issues or poor performance before they impact customer experience.

Such access to Control Plane signaling is essential for obtaining the insights needed to optimize service delivery and performance – because the control plane includes all relevant signaling information related to service and subscriber sessions.

It spans multiple domains and entities, so the ability to piece together and correlate information from each is the only way to secure an end-to-end view of service and session performance. In turn, this unlocks visibility into issues that may negatively impact customer experience – and enables both remedial and pre-emptive actions to be taken.

The new deal expands the relationship between the two companies with the deployment of OSIX in another Operating Company (OpCo) in the group’s network portfolio. OSIX offers a unified monitoring solution that covers both the 4G and 2G networks for the OpCo, and extends to its IMS core.

Evolution aligned with 3GPP standards

As mobile networks have evolved, more interfaces have been included in the common 3GPP framework architecture – so, solutions need to be continuously extended to ensure they keep pace with planned changes and continue to deliver their desired performance.

This is particularly important for network monitoring solutions, which must be able to passively collect information from all deployed interfaces. And, since multiple generations of mobile are run in parallel, this support must extend to 2G as well as to the latest 5G interface implementations.

OSIX meets this challenge and offers comprehensive support for each generation of mobile network technology, evolving in line with 3GPP specifications to ensure that operators can keep pace with the required rate of change – and with their own network investments.

It covers more than 400 protocols and interfaces, allowing operators to monitor their networks, end-to-end. This means that they can correlate sessions across the complete Control (and User) plane – providing rich call trace and analytics functions, as well as enabling root-cause discovery and search functions.

By capturing data in real-time, OSIX provides instant visibility, as well as the ability to search historic records offline. As such, it is a key tool for operators that run complex – and evolving – networks.

Extending a long-established relationship

The new deployment covers the OpCo’s 4G and 2G networks, and its IMS core, which is responsible for session management for all subscriber services. It also enables the OpCo to benefit from future upgrades for 5G, which will be required in the future. Elisa Polystar’s relationship with the group is long-standing – a partnership spanning more than a decade.

“Elisa Polystar’s technology expands the options available to CSPs by offering unparalleled data management and analysis providing a complete view of their customers and their network,” said Anssi Okkonen, CEO of Elisa Polystar. “As a forward-thinking and innovative technology partner, we are very proud of the work we’ve done with this Tier One customer over an extended timeframe – and are delighted to extend our partnership to another member of the group.”

Elisa Polystar is recognized as one of the most advanced vendors in the network automation space with a solution portfolio underpinned by three key factors: our communications heritage, automation capability and capacity to manage the full complexity if networks. With sophisticated data management tools, powered by our AI/ML capabilities, Elisa Polystar is leading the industry towards the fully self-driving networks essential for improving operational and financial performance in a complex business and network environment.