DCOD-BRICKS 3G 324

Enea Netbricks Line of Protocols for 3G Multimedia Applications

Enea offers a wide range of highly portable telecom protocol stacks for TDM, 3G, IMS, and NGN networks, as well as fax and data transfer protocols and signal processing and analysis software. All Enea Netbricks protocols stacks are compliant with ITU, ETSI, ANSI, IETF, 3GPP, and many other standards bodies’ specifications. 

All of Enea Netbricks protocols are written in ANSI C and take advantage of a modular, portable architecture that allows hardware platform and compiler independence. Enea Netbricks protocols are provided in source code to over 400 network equipment providers (NEPs), and device OEMs worldwide, assisting them in getting products to market quickly, with very low risk and significantly reduced development costs.

  • Portable protocol stacks compliant with protocol standards as published by the key standards bodies around the world (ITU, ETSI, ANSI, IETF, 3GPP).
  • Supplied as source code.
  • Used by over 400 global, industry leading telecommunications equipment manufacturers and OEMs.
  • Backed by over 20 years of protocol development expertise and 40 years of telecom software expertise

Overview

DCOD-Bricks are a suite of software products belonging to ENEA Netbricks product line that provide powerful capabilities of non intrusive analysis. They operate over recorded digital communications in order to extract user data that are transmitted using a wide variety of telecommunication protocols.

DCOD-Bricks are composed of several modules that perform one specific protocol monitoring and decoding in order to extract transported user data.
DCOD-Bricks 3G 324 is a software library designed to operate (on line or off line) processing of digital multimedia sessions (typically DS0 64Kbps channel) between 3G mobiles or 3G mobile and servers. It performs:

  • Monitoring of session control protocols defined in ITU-T H.245 and ITU-T H.324.
  • Generation of an event log file that includes all events related to multimedia session control: master/slave determination, terminal capabilities negotiation, logical channel opening, multiplex entry exchange.... This event log file provides a global view of the session progress.
  • Generation of a message log file detailing content of all H.245 messages that have been exchanged during the session. This report includes decoded ASN 1 part of such messages to give access to all features of the recorded multimedia session.
  • Media flow extraction. De-multiplexing of logical channels combined in the recorded session is performed in accordance with ITU-T H.223 to restore media (audio and video) flows transmitted in both directions. For each direction media flows are stored in one 3GP file or in separate audio (AMR) and video (H.263, MPEG4) files for possible subsequent processing. A timing log file is also generated providing time stamping on start and stop of media flows.

Features/Benefits

  • ENEA Netbricks portable design makes this analysis software package useable in a wide variety of configurations (CPU and OS) – source code supply
  • Perfectly fits requirements of lawful interception systems to parse 3G video calls
  • Operational deployments in COMINT, SIGINT, Law Enforcement and CALEA systems.

Specifications

ENEA DCOD-Bricks 3G-324M is able to parse captured multimedia flows that are transmitted in compliance with the following standards:

  • Multi media session control protocol in compliance with ITU-T H.245 (V.11) and ITU-T H.324 (09/2005)
  • Simple Retransmission Protocol as specified in ITU-T H.324 Annex A (SRP/NSRP/WNSRP)
  • Control Channel Segmentation and Reassembly Layer procedures (CCSRL) as specified in Annex C of ITU-T H.324 recommendation
  • Multiplexing procedures in accordance with ITU-T H.223 recommendation for level 1 (Annex A), level 2 (Annex B) and level 3 (future release)
  • 3G 324 procedures according to 3GPP & 3GPP2 TS 26.111 (V6.01), TS 26.110 (V6.00), and TS 26.911 (V6.00).

For more information see the DCOD-BRICKS 3G-324 Datasheet

Related Products

H324-Bricks – operational implementation of 3G 324 multi media control session protocol used in 3G networks for video.