Keys to Mobile Network Expansion

QATS Railway
GSM-R & ETCS MONITORING
Quality Analysis & Troubleshooting Solution

An Expandium solution to:

Help railway operators to improve safety

Reduce roll-out and operation costs

Manage end-to-end GSM-R & ETCS quality of service

Generate real time alarms

Create specific reports for key transactions such as Railway Emergency

Calls and ETCS calls
 A solution designed for:
NSS, BSS and ETCS optimizers
GSM-R & ETCS troubleshooters: network dysfunctions, customer complaints
GSM-R Network Operation Centre & Railway Signalling supervisors
NSS, BSS and ETCS testers
SLA managers, Roaming contract managers, etc.

Enabling:
Immediate detection of any critical railway event, such as Railway Emergency Call or
Train Emergency Stop requested by ETCS, allowing proactive measures
Instant warning of networks impacting on subscribers and easy identification of
root causes for efficient troubleshooting
End-to-end quality monitoring of GSM-R & ETCS networks in real time, 24/7
Quick operational readiness and implementation of functional and technical
acceptances
Generation of dedicated reports and dashboards

Featuring:
50
GSM-R & ETCS real time KPIs which include:
› Railway Emergency Calls
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30

20

10

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› Location Dependent Addressing
› Functional Numbering
› Emergency Stop
Real-time customizable alarms
Intuitive drill-down system from high level KPIs to call traces
Complete end-to-end call trace for all transactions including binary decoding of all
GSM-R and Euroradio protocol stacks
Complete user activities using GSM-R and ETCS keys
Powerful reporting abilities allowing customization
 QATS Railway description

Reporting
QATS Railway provides complete Reporting capabilities
enabling automatic and recurrent report production via a
complete scheduling tool using report templates designed
either by Expandium or directly by the user.

Alarms
With QATS Railway, each user can create its own alarm rules in
a very interactive and intuitive way, to be automatically warned of
specific events such as threshold overshoots, or user-defined
KPI limits.

KPIs
QATS Railway offers a complete set of KPIs, including specific
GSM-R and ETCS indicators, providing a clear picture of how
network and subscriber behave. These KPIs include transaction
counts, failure counts, failure rates and many breakdowns
related to the railway context for all types of transactions.

Radio statistics
QATS Railway provides radio statistics at cell and TRX level
based on BTS and MS measurements, including relevant
breakdown in railway context.

Tracing
Customer care activity often needs to be able to replay all
transactions relative to a specific key, whether GSM (e.g. IMSI),
GSM-R (e.g. Functional Number) or ETCS (e.g. NID_ENGINE).
It is also useful to know what transaction context led to a
problem under study. Tracing functionalities display the list of all
transactions relative to the tracing key.

Call tracing and decoding

For any transaction recorded, QATS Railway gives access
to complete message flow in a graphical ladder view and a
protocol analyzer view, including complete decoding of all bits
and bytes of GSM, GSM-R and ETCS protocol stacks.

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QATS RAILWAY SOLUTION
QATS Railway is based on a real-time application framework called the Expand platform. This platform, which
can evolve with customer needs, consists of a set of LINUX servers connected to signal gathering probes via
Ethernet links. These probes are non-intrusive, compatible with all the signaling interfaces and protocols used
in GSM-R/ETCS networks and capture the traffic in real time 24/7. Information can be captured on E1, STM
or Ethernet links, with copper or optical support.
Once processed and stored in a database, information is made available to the user through a modern,
ergonomic user interface.

Compliant with:
Subset-093, O-2475,
EIRENE SRS, EIRENE FRS

ETCS standard
All NSS & BSS manufacturers
R99 & R4 architectures
E1, STM, Ethernet interfaces

Photo credit: Istockphoto

Join the QATS Railway User Group
Open to international GSM-R and ETCS professionals, our annual, free-access
conference is a unique opportunity to discuss and share your challenges and
experiences with your counterparts, as well as hearing the latest about our
software developments.
For more information: qug@expandium.com

Contact us
Expandium
4 rue du Commandant Charcot
44700 - Orvault - France Keys to Mobile Network Expansion
Phone no.: + 33 2 28 01 95 50
Fax no.: + 33 2 40 40 46 75 www.expandium.com
info@expandium.com

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