2 Feature Descriptions
This chapter provides a summary of new features and updates to the existing features for Network Analytics Suite products released in 25.2.2xx.
2.1 OCNADD Feature Descriptions
Release 25.2.200
Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director (OCNADD) 25.2.200 has been updated with the following enhancements:
- Architecture Enhancement: The data detector architecture has
been enhanced to facilitate high-volume data processing with a highly scalable
solution. The Data Director architecture for the worker group has been revamped
and modularized into two distinct components:
- OCNADD Relay Agent: The Data Director Relay Agent is engineered to handle high-volume data streams from 5G Network Functions (NFs) with a low data retention policy, while ensuring scalability and efficient data processing.
- OCNADD Mediation Group: The Data Director Mediation Group is a vital component of the Data Director, leveraging high-data-retention Kafka clusters to integrate multiple data sources. It enables secure data delivery to third-party applications supporting various data formats using message and xDR feeds. It also supports KPIs, export, and trace of the generated xDRs.
For more infromation, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
- Diameter Feed Support (PoC/Lab Deployment Only through BETA
Program):
- vCollector: The vCollector feature enables a
mechanism to acquire Diameter traffic from various network nodes, such
as a Diameter Signaling Router (DSR) or any other Diameter application.
The packet capturing shall be provided via port mirroring onto the virtual machine running Oracle proprietary software. The virtual machine solution is known as Diameter vCollector. This will provide the following functionalities:
- A software that will provide packet capture and filter capabilities
- A Kafka-based producer client interface that will transfer the captured packets to the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director over Kafka
- A configuration REST API to configure the traffic flow on the vCollector
- An in-memory database to store the configuration and intermediary buffer for the captured packets
For more information, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.
- vCollector: The vCollector feature enables a
mechanism to acquire Diameter traffic from various network nodes, such
as a Diameter Signaling Router (DSR) or any other Diameter application.
- Performance Improvements: Performance figures were
benchmarked and added to the benchmarking guide. The performance has been
verified on the OCCNE cluster.
- Single TCP feed with 1.5M Ingress MPS and 1.5M Egress MPS
For more information, see the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director Benchmarking Guide.