TraceSpan Adds Network Efficiency Analysis and Enhanced TR-156 Support to Its GPON Xpert™ Analyzer

Industry’s first and only real-time passive GPON multi-layer analyzer now also includes enhanced automated testing capabilities and increased database storage size

Ra’anana, Israel, November 22, 2010 – TraceSpan Communications, a leader in broadband analysis and monitoring solutions, today announces a new version of the GPON Xpert™ analyzer, which includes new network efficiency (DBA) analysis tools, additional VLAN routing analysis tools and various other powerful capabilities.

GPON Xpert™ is a passive multi-layer protocol analyzer for GPON networks, designed for engineers engaged in the development, testing and deployment of GPON solutions. GPON Xpert™ cuts significant time from GPON development, deployment, debugging, and interoperability testing, thus accelerating time-to-market and return-on-investment.  

For network operators and equipment developers interested in the network efficiency and utilization, GPON Xpert™'s newly introduced DBA analysis tools enable monitoring of bandwidth allocation and efficiency of the network activity. Various parameters, including the transmitted vs. idle traffic ratio and the ONU and T-CONT queue lengths, are displayed in charts and graphs, along with statistics and information about peak traffic.

For those interested in service provisioning, troubleshooting and standard conformance, the newly introduced VLAN routing analysis tools provide a convenient graphical display of the VLAN flow through the GPON network as defined in the Broadband Forum TR-156 and TR-167 standards. With its unique multi-layer analysis capability, GPON Xpert™ is the only tool in the market today which can also compare the VLAN tagging and filtering information defined in the OMCI with that in the actual Ethernet traffic and clearly indicate any mismatch between them.

"Our customers all across the communications value chain are looking for ways to improve the quality of their GPON components and systems and maximize ROI from their GPON networks", said Dr. Hanan Herzberg, TraceSpan founder and CEO. "Now GPON Xpert helps them accomplish this even better than before, by providing them with new powerful capabilities for automated or manual testing of network and equipment, as well as its maintenance and troubleshooting".

These new capabilities, as well as enhancement of the automated testing capability, the OMCI analysis and increased database storage size are part of the GPON Xpert™ latest software and firmware package. This package is available as a free-of-charge upgrade to all TraceSpan's customers who have a maintenance contract for the GPON Xpert™, and will also be included in all the new GPON Xpert™ units shipped from now on.