MAPS™ MAP Emulator

Overview

GL’s MAPS™ (Message Automation & Protocol Simulation) product line bearing the same acronym, is used to emulate all the MAP interfaces listed above – both TDM and IP.

GL’s MAPS™ is an advanced and versatile protocol simulator/tester that can simulate a variety of protocols encountered in the telecom space, including SIP, MGCP, UMTS, GSM, MLPPP, MEGACO, ISDN, CAS, SS7, and many more. MAPS™ MAP supports emulation of all the GSM and UMTS MAP interfaces. In addition to supporting MAP network elements connected by the interfaces listed, it also supports error tracking, regression testing, conformance testing, load testing, and call generation. It can run pre-defined test scenarios against test objects in a controlled & deterministic manner.

MAPS™ MAP Emulator supports powerful utilities like Message Editor, Script Editor, and Profile Editor which allow new scenarios to be created or existing scenarios to be modified using MTP3 layer (over TDM) and M3UA, M2PA layers (over IP) messages and parameters.

MAPS™ MAP currently supports the various procedures emulating MSC (VLR), HLR, EIR, and SMSC entities and H, C, D, E, F interfaces in the network. Supported procedures include Location Update, Retrieve Roaming Number, Remote User Status, Check IMEI Service, and others.

The product also supports send/receive SMS (Short Message Service) simultaneously using signaling channel with the voice/data/fax service over GSM network.

Possible applications include:

Multi-protocol, Multi-interface Simulation
Provides fault insertion, and erroneous call flows testing capability.
Performance testing, Load Testing, Function al testing, Regression testing and Conformance testing of network elements.
Ready scripts makes testing procedure simpler, less time consuming and hence time to market products.
Test response of network against protocol message modification, or corruption
Inter-operability testing of networks
Wrap-around testing (WAT)
SMS Testing from within the Wireless Infrastructure using MAPS™