Drive tests - P3 Group

Unattended Long-Term ProbingOperators seeking a high QoS are concerned about both customer experience and network performance, which cannot becovered by regular information from network counters. To assure service quality permanent End-to-End measurements from acustomer’s point of view “outside the network” are needed.For years, customers worldwide have been relying on SAM as P3 communications‘ unattended monitoring framework forstationary 2G/3G KPI and SLA measurements, including live overviews, alarming & trace access. 2012 will see the harmonizationof service measurement capabilities in the drive testing and monitoring areas of P3 communications‘ inhouse tool chain basedon the latest generation of the known peeq ® Box Hardware, the powerful but unobtrusive peeq ® Box nano.SAM is a full fledged End-to-Endmonitoring framework meeting theserequirements. Operators get livenetwork overviews “at a glance”. Itsonline result presentations and networktraces allow in-depth engineering. Theseoverviews and an integrated alarmingensure a fast response to networkproblems. SAM’s autonomous probesmeasure multiple services and uploadtheir data to a central server whichhandles result presentation via a webportal. Data upload is either done overthe air or by a fixed LAN connection.Popular examples of attractive usecases enabled by the SAM solutionare 1. Long term service and networkmonitoring to support operational andengineering tasks, 2. Performancecomparison between different regions/vendors/operators/settings or beforeand after soft- and hardware changes,3. Detection of system failures (e.g. perRNC/BSC area or MSC/SGSN area) and4. Detection of overload situations in thenetwork (e.g. with Mean User Data Rate,etc.).The unattended probing solutionoffers the following benefits from theoperator’s perspective: 1. Out of thebox End-to-End measurements from thecustomer’s point of view with probesthat can freely be positioned and do notneed any on-site attendance. 2. 24/7measurements with no integration intothe operator‘s infrastructure. 3. Slim butpowerful and intuitive online platformfor measurement configuration andresult access – no complicated trainingneeded (expert in 15 minutes), webbasedwithout additional client licensecost.The system is offered as a turnkeysolution provided as a managed service– customer gets results and does nothave to operate the probes, testservers, backend systems, web serversetc. As a result, we offer very shortlead/deployment times compared tothe in-house deployment of rented orpurchased solutions.SAM Concept:▪▪Unattended measurement units▪▪Permanent KPI and SLA monitoring(CS, PS and Messaging Services)▪▪Customer approach with nointegration into the operator’sinfrastructure▪▪Online (browser) access to measurementresults and configuration▪▪Easy & intuitive web interfaceReference projects:▪▪Long term End-to-End monitoringof most relevant customer services▪▪Monitoring of end user experienceduring new vendor roll-out▪ ▪ Performance validation ofnetwork optimizationP3 communications GmbHDennewartstr. 25-2752068 Aachen / Germanyphone +49 241 9437 400info.communications@p3-group.com