PULSensor Appliance

From 2020 onwards, the age of the hyperconnected world will be super boosted by the implementations of 5G technology, private networks, IoT, industrial internet, edge computing, and cloud services. This new age is coming with the promise of disruptive business models and yet unforeseen applications to enable our digital lifestyles and enterprise services. While Connectivity Service Providers (CSPs) are preparing their investments for these upcoming opportunities, some challenges and fundamental technological and operational gaps have yet to be solved. With the arrival of some 50 billion interconnected devices, mobile digital lifestyle and enterprise digitalization comes with the need for speed, reliability, scale, and much lower latency. That makes the performance and quality of networks one of the most critical success factors.

Thus CSPs objective is to get the performance monitoring to a completely new level which enables them to be on top of their network and service status at all times, react on network issues in real-time.

PULSensors are measuring nodes that can be installed at strategic points in the network to measure key quality performance indicators on various network layers (lower physical layer, transport layer, application layer), such as bandwidth usage, packet loss, delay/latency and delay variation (jitter). Superior measurement accuracy and reporting granularity technology makes Creanord a safe, long-term choice for any service provider. Measurement accuracy combined with a broad set of standard-based measurements ranging from L2 and L3 to application-level complemented with Creanord specific NetPrecision gives the service provider comprehensive visibility of network quality and impact on customer services. Creanord’s long-term co-operation with Intel has been a key for achieving a distinguished performance and scale lead in both physical and virtual probes.

Creanord offers a complete portfolio of PULSensors which are available in different form-factors and variants. The larger PULSensors are typically used in centralized locations where scalability for more than 10 000 measurement circuits is needed. Smaller form-factors are typically used in the probe-to-probe measurements and access locations where cost-effectiveness is needed still without jeopardizing the measurement quality.
The available PULSensor Appliances are:

• PULSensor CN4000. Ultra-Performance Ethernet and IP network assurance probe for up to 15.000 measurement sessions
• PULSensor CN3000. Ultra-Performance Ethernet and IP network assurance probe for up to 10.000 measurement sessions
• PULSensor CN500. Miniaturized Probe for up to 500 measurement sessions
• PULSensor SFP 200. Smart SFP with centralized PULScore management