TraceSpan Communications develops and manufactures innovative broadband testing and monitoring solutions. Since its establishment in 2002 the company has become a leading provider of broadband testing and monitoring solutions. Empowered by patent-pending breakthrough technology, TraceSpan's performance analysis and Lawful Interception products enable non-intrusive monitoring of data in broadband access networks.
TraceSpan's multi-layer analyzers are accepted worldwide as the industry's first passive analyzers for vendor-independent testing of LTE, GPON, NG-PON, G.fast, VDSL2, ADSL2Plus, ADSL2, ADSL and DOCSIS networks. Highly flexible and easy to use, TraceSpan products deliver significant cost savings, faster time to market, and rapid return on investment to Telco's, MSOs and service providers, system vendors, chipset developers, and technology innovators.
The GPON Xpert multi-layer analyzer is a unique protocol analyzer for G-PON products. GPON Xpert is a modular tool designed for R&D, laboratory and field application engineers engaged in the development, testing and deployment of G-PON standard-compliant solutions. GPON Xpert verifies the interoperability of G-PON products offered by different vendors, and indicates compliance of any combination of OLT and ONT/ONU modems to the G-PON standard.
As an independent testing platform the GPON Xpert is built without using any G-PON chipset. It provides comprehensive analysis of data in multiple forms MAC layer, GTC Framing sub-layer, TC Adaptation sub-layer and OMCI Management. In addition, the system enables full view and analysis of the Upper Layers, including Ethernet, PPP, PPPoE, IP, TCP, UDP, DHCP, IGMP and HTTP.
Complete testing of the GPON protocol, Independent Testing tool – no GPON chipset, Continuous real-time analysis and event triggering, OLT emulation with pre-defined and user-defined tests, Multi-layer analysis including upper layers and TR-069.
GPON Tracer is the ideal tool for both telecom operators' field engineers and customer support teams of OLT and ONT/ONU manufacturers. Featuring a compact handheld device with a user-friendly touch screen interface, the GPON Tracer provides a rich variety of real-time indications in simple graphical and textual formats, giving accurate indications of network and service issues and their root causes. Moreover, GPON Tracer reduces repair charges by preventing unnecessary replacements of properly working equipment.
The NG-PON Xpert multi-layer analyzer is a unique, real-time protocol analyzer for XG-PON1, NG-PON2 and XGS-PON networks and products. It supports the symmetrical 10G and asymmetrical 10G/2.5G options of XGS-PON, as well as TWDM-PON with 4 pairs of wavelengths for NG-PON2. Wavelength switching is software-controlled, supporting both a fixed mode with a user-selected pair of wavelengths, and selection of an ONU which the NG-PON Xpert can follow in case of Handover. Complete analysis of the XG-PON1, NG-PON2 and XGS-PON protocols, NG-PON2 TWDM-PON support with dynamic wavelength switching, Full multi-layer view of TC, OMCI and upper layers with intuitive rich user interface, Neutral unbiased testing tool between the OLT and ONUs, OLT emulation option for ONU stand-alone testing, Multi-ONU emulation option for OLT testing.
The 10G-EPON Xpert is a unique, non-intrusive multi-layer protocol analyzer for 10G-EPON networks and products. It tests and compares the functionality of OLTs and ONUs and verifies the standard compliance and interoperability of 10G-EPON products from different vendors. It is a powerful tool for telecom operators, MSOs and equipment vendors, as well as for technology and chipset companies.
NG-PON Xpert can also serve as an OLT Emulator for testing an ONU on a stand-alone basis. It can generate PLOAM messages to activate the ONU as well as serve as an OMCI Master to generate and transmit OMCI messages. The NG-PON Xpert OLT Emulator combined with the analyzer provides an integrative ONU conformance test tool, which simultaneously generates commands, analyzes the ONU response, compares its behavior to the expected one and reports any incompliance it detects.
The Multi-ONU Emulator introduces a new revolutionary approach for comprehensive testing of an OLT. It enhances the testing with repeatable test scenarios and functionalities that cannot be tested in any other way, including the OLT's ability to handle various ONU models and configurations, error and defect conditions, alarms and traffic loads.. The Multi-ONU Emulator emulates a full PON with hundreds of ONUs, thus enhancing the test coverage, while significantly simplifying the test setups and providing savings in space, cost and power consumption.
