Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] [Announce] SS7 monitoring hardware now available for Ethereal
Hello Ethereal users,
A versatile SS7
monitoring solution based on E1/T1/J1 PCMCIA and PCI boards is now available for winpcap/libpcap based
monitoring applications running on Windows NT/2000/XP - like Ethereal for
Windows!
This allows doing a live non-intrusive monitoring of E1/T1/J1 links
with SS7 signalling. By using
Ethereal, protocols like MTP2, MTP3, ISUP, BICC, SCCP, TCAP, MAP, INAP,
CAP/CAMEL, WIN, BSSAP, BSMAP and DTAP will be decoded.
This monitoring
solution may be extended per request
to include support for ISDN PRA protocols like ISDN, LAPD, LAPB and
Q.931.
Customer acceptance, troubleshooting, interoperability, demos: All
this is now easier than
ever.
Characteristics:
- From one
(PCMCIA and PCI) to eight (PCI) E1/T1/J1 line interfaces per card.
- >From 8
(PCMCIA) to 256 (PCI) signalling timeslots monitored simultaneously per
card.
- Supported E1 Settings:
- Line Code: AMI,
HDB3
- Frame Format: Double Frame, CRC4 Multiframe, CRC4
Multiframe G706
- Supported T1 Settings:
- Line Code:
AMI, B8ZS
- Frame Format: F12 (D3/4, SF), F4, ESF (F24),
F72 (SLC96)
- Capacity: 56Kbps,
64Kbps
- Remote Alarm Format: Yellow A, Yellow
B
- CRC6
- On-board amplifier to compensate for
protected/attenuated monitoring tapping points (20 and 30dB).
- Support for
both High and Low Impedance monitoring.
- RJ45/RJ48C connectors.
-
Impedance Converters (baluns) are available for connecting to coax interfaces
(75 ohm coax - 100/120 ohm twisted pair).
- Device drivers for Windows NT
4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Linux may be supported by
request.
Details:
The monitoring
solution relies on four components:
1. PIST PCMCIA or PCI boards: A wide
range of E1/T1/J1 PCMCIA and PCI boards are provided by Utel Systems (http://www.utelsystems.com/).
2. PIST Ethereal Interface Manager: An application
that aims at configuring the E1/T1/J1
board to be used with Ethereal (E1/T1/J1, framing, line code, high/low
impedance, amplification, signalling timeslots to monitor, etc...).
3. PIST Ethereal API: An application that interfaces the low level drivers
of the E1/T1/J1 boards to libpcap/winpcap.
4. A set of patches for
winpcap/libpcap that supports the dialog with the PIST Ethereal API (will be
submitted to winpcap maintainers for inclusion).
Licensing:
- PIST Ethereal Interface
Manager and PIST Ethereal API are only delivered as binary (closed source) as
they include code (driver APIs) that can't be released using the same licensing
as libpcap/winpcap.
- Patches for winpcap/libpcap are licensed under the same
license as the appropriate application to which they apply to (winpcap/libpcap).
How to get it?
- E1/T1/J1 PCMCIA and
PCI boards, PIST Ethereal Interface Manager and PIST Ethereal API are available
as commercial products from Utel
Systems:
Email: sales [at]
utelsystems.com
Web: http://www.utelsystems.com/
- Winpcap/libpcap patches will be provided very soon for
review and inclusion. Contact Olivier Jacques at HP for question on this
component:
Email: olivier.jacques
[at] hp.com
Olivier Jacques - OpenCall Test
Consultant, Hewlett Packard
Frode Gorseth - Sales & Product Manager, Utel
Systems
