Release Notes

UnifyIP 1.0

February 2006
Contents

1 ABOUT UNIFYIP.............................................................................................. 3
Why UnifyIP? .............................................................................................................. 3
Making Services Perform............................................................................................ 3
Why is End-to-End Service Troubleshooting Important?............................................ 4

2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................. 5

3 UNIFYIP FEATURES ........................................................................................ 6

HTTP User Analysis.................................................................................................... 6
HTTP Page Analysis................................................................................................... 6
The HTTP Page Analysis feature investigates HTTP traffic with a vision of the Network
Web page perception...................................................................................................... 6
FTP Analysis............................................................................................................... 7
The FTP Page Analysis feature investigates FTP traffic by Mobile IP or FTP server ........... 7
HTTP/FTP Multiple Interface Analysis........................................................................ 7

4 KNOWN ISSUES .............................................................................................. 8

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1 About UnifyIP

Why UnifyIP?
The drive for wireless operators to squeeze more out of existing
2G and 2.5G investments and to generate new revenue from 3G
networks as quickly as possible are major priorities. At the same
time they must overcome some major challenges, including the
growing complexity of wireless technology and the associated
problems of wireless/IP convergence. They need to do all this
against a backdrop of critical skills shortages and enormous time
pressures imposed by governments, debt repayment plans and
competition.

Making Services Perform

Actix UnifyIP provides the wireless operator and vendor
engineering teams with the ability to:

Determine the root cause of service problems resulting from

the complex interaction of wireless infrastructure and IP
protocols. By correlating IP sessions across network
interfaces, from the client to the application server, key
service-impacting issues, such as lost packets and high delays,
can be identified and isolated.

Quickly evaluate the behavior of packet data services and

provide tools to troubleshoot the causes of poor data service
performance.

Actix UnifyIP utilizes measurements made by standard protocol

analyzers and IP sniffers to enable engineers to compare service
layer messaging and performance at each interface between the
end-user and the application server, in order to isolate the factors
contributing to poor performance.

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Why is End-to-End Service Troubleshooting
Important?

In the market, many products (such as drive test tools and protocol
analyzers) allow users to monitor radio or network performance.
However, sometimes they provide poor KPI creation and
troubleshooting capabilities and none combines those features with
a clear vision of user perception (QoE).

Actix UnifyIP (available for GPRS, EDGE, CDMA 1x, EV-DO,

UMTS and HSDPA) on one hand offers a wide range of key
performance indicators that assess the true end to end service
performance and on the other automates the process of session
correlation across multiple interfaces, thus facilitating and
accelerating the root cause analysis.

UnifyIPs summary pages show a high-level overview of service

utilization and user behavior, whereas on the analysis pages you
are able to investigate specific WEB pages or FTP downloads and
drill down to message sequence and very specific indicators.

Unify IP fine tunes 2.5G and 3G networks by providing end-to-end

analysis of packet-based applications, protocols and services and
the interactions that can lead to poor service quality, in order to
increase the overall performance of the different services

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2 System Requirements
If you install UnifyIP on a
system that does not meet the
recommended configuration
requirements, you may suffer
from:
Inability to process large
amounts of data
Delays when trying to
perform certain tasks
Low performance of
advanced correlation and
analysis capabilities
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The following section defines the recommended and minimum
system requirements for successfully running UnifyIP.
Hardware requirements
All Actix Solutions are 32-bit applications that run on the
following Microsoft operating systems (Windows XP or 2000 is
strongly recommended) and their latest service packs:
Recommended: MS Windows XP
Alternative: Microsoft Windows 2000
Because UnifyIP uses system memory in a much more efficient
way on later operating systems (Windows 2000 and later), we
strongly recommend that, if necessary, you upgrade to one of these
systems.
Hardware Recommended Specification
Processor: P4 2.6 GHz
Memory (RAM): 1 GB
Disk space: 60+ GB available
CD-ROM drive: To install the application
One Parallel Port or USB Port: For single-user hardware key
Monitor: 1600 x 1200 pixels
64K color resolution
Other equipment: Mouse and keyboard
UnifyIP performs best when the Windows Virtual Memory Paging
size is set to between 1000 and 1500 MB. The method for setting
this parameter varies by operating system. Please consult your OS
help for specific instructions regarding this parameter.
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3 UnifyIP Features

HTTP User Analysis

The HTTP User Analysis feature investigates HTTP traffic with a
vision of the user perception (QoE).

Select the
Interface you
want to
investigate,
then sort by:
Mobile IP,
Host or User
Agent

HTTP Page Analysis

The HTTP Page Analysis feature investigates HTTP traffic with a
vision of the Network Web page perception.
Select the
Interface you
want to
investigate,

then sort by:

Mobile IP,
Host or User
Agent

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FTP Analysis
The FTP Page Analysis feature investigates FTP traffic by Mobile
IP or FTP server

Select the
Interface you
want to
investigate,

then sort by:

Mobile IP or
Server

HTTP/FTP Multiple Interface Analysis

The UnifyIP Analysis page gives the engineer an E2E view of
HTTP/FTP on Multiple Interface and steers him or her through the
analysis of R, Iu/Iub, Gn, Gi, and Server data.

Select the
session you want
to analyze and
then select:
Failure
Analysis, Time
Analysis or
Traffic Analysis

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4 Known Issues
Truncated logging is not supported. If packets are truncated during logging,
UnifyIP might not work correctly. UnifyIP needs complete packets in order to
build meaningful KPIs.

HTTP Pipelining is not supported.

HTTP Decompression and Reassemble is not supported

HTTP Selective Acknowledgments (SACK) is not supported

Iu and Iub combined traces may not work (if both user planes are included,
event detection will not discriminate between them).

Before loading the data, you should use the Scenarios link on the Load and
Select Data page and then select the scenarios for the protocols that you are
investigating. Selecting those scenarios and no others generally improves the
performance of UnifyIP.

CDMA client files with IP tunneling will not be loaded correctly PPP
reassembly will drop packets and cause the application layer to produce
misleading data.

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