Iu-PS Emulator (Compact-PCI version)

The Iu-PS emulator system is a cost-effective testing system that provides the user the means to perform advanced traffic tests for the performance evaluation of the Iu-Packet Switched (PS) interface. It simulates several Radio Network Control (RNC) nodes by generating signaling and data traffic, over the Iu-PS interface, towards the Core Network under test.

User Plane Features 

• Support of  4 STM-1 physical interfaces
• Emulation of up to 4 RNCs
• Traffic rate per physical interface up to 155.52 Mbps
• Total traffic rate up to 400 Mbps
• IP over AAL5 traffic generation and analysis

• Parallel support of 4096 AAL5 traffic channels

• User level statistics for 4096 subscribers

   Control Plane Features

• Signaling rate up to 10 Mbps
• Support of more than 2.000.000 Busy Hour Call Attempts (BHCA)
• Call activation rate more than 600 calls/sec
• Emulation of up to 4 RNCs
• Parallel support of Mobile Originating (MO) and Mobile Terminated (MT) Short Message Services (SMS)
• SMS rate more than 600 messages/sec

   Control Plane Protocols

• SAAL protocol according to ITU-T Q.2100-Q.2140
• MTP protocol according to ITU-T Q.701-Q.704
• SCCP protocol according to ITU-T Q.713-Q.714
• RANAP protocol according to 3GPP TS 25.413 V4.2.0
• Layer 3 protocols according to 3GPP TS 24.008
• SMS-RL according to 3GPP TS 24.011 V3.3.0
• SMS-TL according to 3GPP TS 23.040 V3.6.0
• SMS-AL according to 3GPP TS 23.121 V3.5.1

    System Features

• Compact-PCI platform
• Parallel performance of C-Plane and U-Plane conformance testing scenarios
• Real time C-Plane and U-Plane measurements acquisition, display and logging
• Real time protocol errors monitoring and reporting
• Message editor
• Testing scenario editor
• Logging capabilities
• Comprehensive, easy-to-use application software under MS Windows NT 4.0
• Flexible architecture open for system customization