Iu-CS Emulator (PCI version)

The Iu-CS 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-Circuit Switched (CS) interface. It simulates a single Radio Network Control (RNC) node by generating signaling and data traffic, over the Iu-CS interface, towards the Core Network under test.

User Plane Features 

• STM-1 physical interface
• Traffic rate up to 155.52 Mbps
• AAL2 traffic generation and analysis

• Parallel support of 2048 AAL2 traffic channels
• Parallel support of 2048 data and voice calls
• QoS measurements for all active calls

• User level statistics for 2048 subscribers

  Control Plane Features

• Signaling rate up to 4.096 Mbps
• Support of more than 300.000 Busy Hour Call Attempts (BHCA)
• Call activation rate more than 100 calls/sec
• Parallel support of Mobile Originating (MO), Mobile Terminated (MT) and Mobile to Mobile (MM) calls
• Parallel support of Mobile Originating (MO) and Mobile Terminated (MT) Short Message Services (SMS)
• SMS rate more than 100 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
• AAL2 protocol according to ITU-T Q.2630 and Q.2150
• 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

• PCI bus interface
• 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