2. Reduce operating expenses,
standardize processes and encapsulate
IP into customized applications
• Multi-threaded open architecture platform
for network post processing, analysis and
optimization
• g-net and g-station enable
• Reduction in operating expenses
• Standardization of business and
engineering processes
• Encapsulation of trade secrets and
other IP into customized software
applications for automation
• Complimentary solution to internal
Ericsson tools, including Optimi
Gladiator g-net and g-station
3. Three Key Use Models
• 2G/3G RAN Performance Monitoring
o Quickly identify underperforming cells
o Rapidly analyze and visualize KPIs for rapid correlation across dynamically defined
Busy Hour for different network elements and different Traffic KPIs
o Map alarms to areas where specific alarms are triggered in the network (Advanced
Functionality)
• 2G/3G KPI Optimization
o Combine elements of RAN Optimization and Performance Management
o Improve productivity of processing and analyzing KPIs by as much as 600% and overall
network performance monitoring efficiency by up to 250%
• 2G/3G OSS Workflow Automation
o Perform all activities of RAN and KPI Optimization and RAN Performance Management
o Automate the above Engineering Workflow activities
4. Key Features
• Analyze data using built-in Analysis Toolboxes
• Encapsulate best practices and IP through execution of custom KPIs and modules
created in Custom Design Center (CDC), Application Development Suite (ADS) and
KPI Trend Viewer (KPI TV)
• Synchronize KPIs, Alarms, analysis outputs and trends between multiple views
(Map, Graph, etc.) for rapid root cause analysis
• Dynamically define Events based on Configuration Management data changes (e.g.
a Parameter change) KPI degradation, or alarms and filter them based on polygons,
system queries, KPI thresholds and over dynamically defined Busy Hour for
different network elements (BBH, NBH, etc.) and different Traffic KPIs (CS, PS, CS-
64, HS, etc.)
• Generate many different type of reports such as Ranking, Underperforming cells,
Comparison, Trends with aging information
• Automatically fetch and load Drive Test data from all major tools vendors and
Ericsson 2G/3G OSS data (counters, alarms, parameter configuration, traces and
measurements)
• Automatically process, correlate and generate reports created on CDC, ADS and KPI
TV
5. Key Benefits
• Reduce time spent on processing and analyzing OSS data, including KPIs,
from multiple points of view by up to 300% to more quickly arrive at the
root cause of network issues
• Improve productivity of processing and analyzing KPIs by as much as 600%
and overall network performance monitoring efficiency by up to 250%
• Reduce “Time to Market” to implement new process, KPIs and other
changes
• Improve engineering organizational speed, efficiency and responsiveness
with a scalable, customizable and easy-to-use enterprise solution
• Reduce training and other operational costs by
o Centrally capturing and disseminating best practices and IP
o Standardizing and automating engineering practices for optimization and
monitoring across the entire engineering organization
o Centrally managing usage and information dissemination across the
engineering organization
6. Gladiator Business Case
• Up to $22M/year of recovered revenue from more effective dropped call mitigation
(assuming 1M subs @ 25% dropped call rate & $7 ARPU)
• DT/3G network roll out – 300% efficiency gain ($15k/month benefit @ $5k/month/engineer)
– Single-click Go-no-Go report generation instead of manual report generation
– Full visualization with performance stats and maps for faster root cause analysis
– Key tasks implemented using CDC, distributed to entire team as a standard tool
• PM/KPI Analysis – 250%+ efficiency gain ($12.5k/month benefit @ $5k/month/engineer)
– Produce quick dashboard reports for Cluster level and Cell level
– Easily get Cell and Cluster Aging performance
– Easily get an overall view of underperforming KPI counts
– Using KPI TV, generate a polygon boundary coloring for entire city
– Tasks that were done using multiple tools are now integrated into one
Example: An engineer who normally monitors 10% of KPIs per day for 2 RNCs can monitor
more than 60% of KPIs per using the Gladiator Solution
• General Business Benefits
– Manpower time saving on engineering troubleshooting
– IP protection
– Improved team knowledge dissemination
7. g-net and g-station Architecture
• Through an open architecture deployed across a common database, g-
net’s automation and g-station’s deep analysis capabilities combine to
provide both real-time and detailed analysis of network events
• These two systems allow users to manage, monitor, troubleshoot and
optimize network performance for all major wireless network technologies
8. g-net Operation
• Automation
o 24 by 7 automated scheduled tasks from any device or location
o Automatically grabs data from file destination sources
o Select min/hours/days/weeks/months/year…recurrences
o Automated analysis, troubleshooting and reports triggered by
data arrival
o Auto distribution over web, emails, sms.
• Efficiency
o Open architecture – easily developed and customized by end
user
o Improve efficiency in handling measured data and KPI
monitoring
o Handle of large data volumes generated by autonomous and
OSS systems
o Migrate towards measurement based network management
9. g-station Operation
• Analysis of data from various interfaces
of a mobile wireless network
o OSS measurement reports
o OSS performance reports
o Drive test log files
o MSC/BSC dumps
o AFP/ACP Planning tools
o Network Probes
• Visualization and analysis
o Pre-defined technology-specific Analysis
Toolboxes
o KPI Trend Viewer and Event Display Center
o Custom Design Center and Application
Development Suite
o Flexible State Machine Editor
o Flexible Benchmarking Reports
11. CM Audit Toolbox
The CM Audit Toolbox is a
Configuration Management tool
that is across multiple network
infrastructure vendors:
• Define and identify configuration settings,
boundaries and default values.
Parameter most frequently violated
Network element most frequently
violated
Details of all violations
• Monitor network changes
Parameter most frequently
changed
Network element most frequently
changed
Details of all changes
• Tracking of Neighbor addition and
removal
• Restore and toggle network configuration
settings
• Search all available settings and choose
to restore settings any available date.
OSS/Counter importer
RNC Parameters loaded
12. CM Audit Toolbox Features
Interface Support
• Ericsson 2G(CNAI v2 txt)
and 3G (xml) dumps
• ALU 2G(txt) and 3G (Xml
5200/9370) dumps
• NSN 2G(xml) and 3G (xml)
dumps
• Huawei 2G(BSC 6000 txt)
and 3G (BSC6810 MML)
dumps
• Huawei BSC 6900 and RNC
6900 xml dumps (coming
soon)
MSC name RNC name Cell name
Number of
non-default
parameters
MSC1 DLRNC01 UM18828 14
MSC1 DLRNC01 UM10206 6
MSC1 DLRNC01 UM10207 6
MSC RNC Cell Parameter Value
Default
value
MSC1 DLRNC01 UM18828 primaryCpichPower 300
MSC1 DLRNC01 UM18828 pichPower -7
MSC1 DLRNC01 UM18828 pwrAdm 75
MSC1 DLRNC01 UM18828 tmCongActionGhs 10
Parameter
Number of
violations
aseDlAdm 1153
aseUlAdm 1153
pichPower 1
Sample UMTS Cell
Parameters Check
MSC
name RNC name
Number of
non-default
parameters
MSC1 DLRNC01 20
MSC1 DLRNC05 20
MSC RNC Parameter
emergencyCal
lRedirect
loadSharingDir
RetryEnabled
hsCellChange
Allowed
hsOnlyBest
Cell
aliasPlmnId
entities
Value 0 0 1 1 404102
MSC RNC Parameter
emergencyCal
lRedirect
loadSharingDir
RetryEnabled
hsCellChange
Allowed
hsOnlyBest
Cell
aliasPlmnId
entities
MSC1 RNC1
MSC1 DLRNC05 0 0 1 1 404112
MSC1 DLRNC01 0 0 1 1 404112
MSC RNC Parameter Value
Default
value
MSC1 DLRNC05 aliasPlmnIdentities 404112 404102
MSC1 DLRNC01 aliasPlmnIdentities 404112 404102
MSC1 DLRNC05 networkResourceIdentifierLengthCs 5 0
MSC1 DLRNC01 networkResourceIdentifierLengthCs 5 0
Parameter
Number of
violations
aliasPlmnIdentities 2
bandwidthMarginUl 2
ciphering 2
Sample UMTS RNC
Parameters Check
Site/Database Utilities
• GSM
– System Frequency plan
Audit
– Co Channel Cells
– Co BCCH- Co BSIC Cells
• UMTS PSC Plan Audit
• Default Parameter Check
• Neighbor Check
14. Performance Monitoring Solution
The GI Solution for Performance Monitoring leverages our
KPI Trend Viewer (KPI TV) and Event Display Center (EDC)
applications:
Key Features
• Quickly identify underperforming cells
• Create KPI formulas/definitions on the fly
• **Define Events dynamically based on Configuration Management data
changes (e.g. a Parameter change) KPI degradation, or alarms
• Visualize multiple KPI and **Event trends dynamically over time (hourly,
daily, weekly, monthly) on the Map or Graph
• Define Busy Hour dynamically for different network elements (BBH, NBH,
etc.) and different Traffic KPIs (CS, PS, CS-64, HS, etc.)
• Generate many different type of reports:
– Ranking
– Underperforming cells
– Comparison
– Trends with aging information
• Filter based on polygon, system queries, KPI thresholds, KPI degradation,
**Alarm event, network parameter change, and system queries
• Select cells and their neighbors easily to check performance degradation
and neighborhood impact
• **Map alarms to areas where specific alarms are triggered in the network
• Drilldown to analyze worst offenders
• Correlate data from **FM, CM and PM in a single GUI.
** Advanced Features that leverage EDC
Interface Support
• SQL connectivity – Ericsson ESPA
2G/3G
• Oracle connectivity
– NSN NetAct 2G/3G, Alu SAM
5620 2G/3G, Huawei M2000
2G/3G
– Native Dumps for:
• Ericsson 2G sgw and 3G xml
• Huawei M2000 csv dumps
• Sybase connectivity
– Ericsson ENIQ 2G/3G and
Huawei M2000 2G/3G(coming
soon)
15. • Flexible customization of KPI definitions visualized individually and as trends
• Roll up to RNC level or drill-down to NodeB
KPI Trend Viewer
Network Parameter
Change Event
Network Alarm
Event
Three KPIs from three
sources for the same
Network Element
16. • Map view of multiple KPIs (cell wise) and cluster (ward boundary) KPIs
KPI Trend Viewer
Multiple KPIs
per cell
Combined KPIs
for each cluster
17. Event Display Center
5 Events/ Alarms from 5
sources over time
Sequence of Events/
Alarms grouped by Name
Event details
19. Ericsson OSS Toolbox
The OSS Toolbox is a robust set of GSM
and UMTS Analyses using Ericsson OSS
data types:
GSM:
- MRR
- NCS
UMTS:
- CTR
- MRR
- NCS
BENEFIT: Integrated visualization of
network counter analyses on one GUI
20. OSS Toolbox – UMRR Phantoms
Example of Phantoms Analysis Using
UMTS MRR Data
21. OSS Toolbox – Missing Neighbors
Example of Missing Neighbor Analysis
using UMTS NCS Data
22. • Data Consolidation
• Performance comparison
• 3D maps event visualization
• Organize your own dashboard
Customized Reports
23. Custom Design Center (CDC)
• Reporting / Analysis engine
• Creation of custom analyses and
reports
• Simple graphical user interface
• CDC is used for
– Analysis prototyping
– “On the fly” development
– Analyzes customization
Allow engineering team to add reports
and analyses
Import/Export CDC analyses to share
among the engineering team
Data gathering
(Measured data, System data)
Data processing
(Calculations, histograms, stats, …)
Report generation
(Tables, graphs, maps,…)
General flow of CDC reports
24. Application Development Suite
• Allows application development on the
top of Gladiator platform
• Embedded VB.NET compiler
• Used for
– Automation of Gladiator analyses
– Building new applications
– Interaction with Windows environment
– Interaction with broader Internet
environment
– “On the fly” feature and IP development
• ADS supports
- G-scripts
- G-functions
- G-plug-ins
ADS Console
ADS Code Editor
25. Custom Plug-ins
• All Gladiator API’s are
available to developers to
create custom IP
• This includes internal
engines like mapping,
charting, histograms, and
SQL
• All solutions have API’s
available, including
toolboxes
• Customizations can be used
across the g-net and g-
station products
26. Custom Call State Machine
Create the
states Create the
variables
Create the
outputs
Add
conditions
Set variables
and outputs
Preview the
procedure