Enterprise packet investigation · Telecommunications

Make complex telecom traffic explain itself.

Investigate service outages, performance degradation, protocol failures, and malicious traffic across mobile core, IMS, signaling, media, charging, and IP transport—with packet evidence every team can inspect.

Charging investigationCOMMAND SUCCESS ≠ SERVICE SUCCESS
01 · Diameter commandResult-Code 2001Top-level request appears successful
02 · Nested MSCCResult-Code 5012Unable to comply inside charging unit
03 · Transport contextTCP ZeroWindowBackpressure overlaps repeated updates
Reviewable conclusion

Preserve the nested failure and transport context; do not collapse the capture into a generic “Diameter success” summary.

Illustrative sanitized investigation pattern—not a customer case or universal protocol-depth claim.

Operational value

Reduce expert effort and service-impact time.

Measure cases per month, responder hours, time to useful evidence, ruled-out domains, vendor handoffs, and avoidable service-impact minutes during evaluation.

01

Shorten multi-vendor MTTR

Give operations, engineering, vendors, and customers one packet chronology instead of parallel interpretations of counters and logs.

02

Protect service availability

Localize failed registration, session setup, charging, call setup, media quality, transport backpressure, and tunnel-path degradation.

03

Investigate telecom security

Review C2 behavior, covert DNS, east-west movement, scan or flood aggregates, suspicious infrastructure, and configured threat-intelligence matches.

04

Scale scarce protocol expertise

Turn specialist packet work into reviewable filters, frames, transactions, coverage, and next checks that wider operations teams can use.

Simple value estimate

What could faster evidence be worth?

Use three planning assumptions. Count only incidents where packet investigation is part of the response and only hours you genuinely believe better evidence could remove.

Annual modeled valueIncidents × hours potentially saved × cost or exposure per hour
Hours potentially recovered384 / year
Modeled annual value€3,072,000

Illustrative planning estimate—not a PacketSafari guarantee or customer result. Validate time saved and business impact during an evaluation.

Critical systems and protocol depth

Correlate failures across layers.

These are target investigation surfaces. Available depth depends on capture position, protocol fields, encryption, product profile, and the representative case validated during evaluation.

Voice and IMS

P-CSCF · S-CSCF · SBC · application server · media gatewaySIP · SDP · RTP/RTCP · Diameter

Which dialog branch failed? Did signaling complete? Is poor media caused by loss, jitter, sequence gaps, codec negotiation, or the capture itself?

Mobile core and sessions

AMF/MME · SMF/SGW-C · UPF/PGW-U · gNB/eNBNGAP/S1AP · PFCP · GTP-C/U · SCTP

Where did registration, bearer, session, mobility, or user-plane setup diverge—and which control-plane evidence supports it?

Charging, policy, and identity

OCS · PCRF/PCF · DRA · AAA · subscriber servicesDiameter · RADIUS · DNS · TLS

Does command-level success hide a failed nested result? Is the symptom application logic, peer response, routing, or transport backpressure?

Legacy and interworking

STP · signaling gateway · HLR/HSS interworking · roaming edgeSIGTRAN · SCCP · TCAP · MAP · SCTP

Can related transactions, endpoints, timing, and result codes be reconstructed without flattening the trace into generic warnings?

IP transport and service edge

Routers · firewalls · load balancers · DNS · management planeTCP · UDP · BGP · DNS · TLS · SSH · SNMP

Separate loss, reordering, MTU or MSS, receiver constraints, path policy, TLS resets, service wait, and infrastructure anomalies.

Security investigation

Core services · management zones · remote access · internal and external peersNetwork-wide behavioral and signature evidence

Correlate Suricata-compatible detections, periodic C2, tunnels, lateral paths, aggregate scans or floods, and offline intelligence with packets.

Security and resilience context

Turn the packet record into incident evidence.

EECC network and service security

Article 40 calls for proportionate measures to manage security risk and prevent or minimise incident impact on users and other networks.

EU Directive 2018/1972

NIS2 cybersecurity and reporting

National implementation can impose risk-management, incident-handling, continuity, supply-chain, and reporting obligations on covered entities.

ENISA NIS2 overview

Sector threat and resilience practice

Telecom security depends on technical context, evidence exchange, response maturity, and service resilience—not alerts without packet-level interpretation.

GSMA T-ISAC

PacketSafari supports technical investigation and evidence review. It does not certify EECC, NIS2, or other regulatory compliance; applicability depends on jurisdiction, entity classification, and the organization’s controls.

Start with one representative failure

Measure time to evidence on your own protocol stack.

Plan an evaluation