Anritsu announced the availability of Encrypted Traffic Monitoring from Network Functions’ Virtual TAPs (Terminal Access Points) in the MasterClaw 5G Standalone (5G SA) Service Assurance solution, in partnership with a major European Network Equipment Manufacturer (NEM).
MasterClaw’s capabilities provide visibility into a 5G Standalone (5G-SA) Core Network’s natively encrypted traffic, specifically, into the sections deployed according to the 3GPP’s Service-Based Architecture.

NEMs are providing Virtual TAPs, integrated with their Network Functions, capable of forwarding clear (not encrypted) HTTP2 traffic (also known as the L7-layer) from the Service-Based Interfaces (SBI) to 3rd-party probes for monitoring.

Anritsu now provides a software option in its physical or virtual probe (MPA, Multi-Protocol Analyzer) to ingest L7-layer traffic into the MasterClaw Service Assurance solution for 5G. It will correlate with all the other protocol procedures visible on non-encrypted interfaces (Point-to-Point, Access, or Edge), giving an end-to-end consolidated view of the subscribers’ activity.