Qosium uncovers your network’s real performance from the perspective of connected services and applications. With unprecedented precision, meeting even research-grade requirements, and genuine real-time monitoring, it’s ideal for even the most demanding critical systems.
Visual Insights for Better Understanding
Qosium’s intuitive visualization helps you grasp network behavior, performance, and potential bottlenecks or issues. Measure total traffic or individual applications across any network.
Qosium introduces a new dimension to network oversight. Its real-time results stream enables rapid alerts, allowing you to address connection issues before they escalate. Results can be visualized in multiple ways: maps, graphs, gauges, quality bars, and numerical values.
Do you know what’s moving through your network?
Our advanced flow analysis quickly and clearly reveals whether your network’s traffic profile matches your expectations.
While measuring data transfer speeds at network interfaces is easy, understanding what actually makes up your traffic is critical, especially in production networks. A single malfunctioning application or service can flood your network with unnecessary traffic, disrupting operations. Fast detection and recovery are essential.
There’s also a strong cyber security angle: Are there new or unknown traffic flows lurking in your network? Did any application manage to exploit even a short-term misconfiguration in the firewall?
Passive Monitoring for Production Environments
Qosium is a passive measurement and monitoring system, seamlessly analyzing the quality of existing application and service data flows without disruption. Unlike active solutions, it’s non-intrusive and perfect for production environments.
Whether in development, deployment, or operations, Qosium is the ideal solution. It requires minimal bandwidth for transmitting results and, as a software-based system, often eliminates the need for new hardware.
Read more about the differences between active and passive measurement principles here.
From Quality of Service to Quality of Experience
Quality of Experience indicates users’ satisfaction with the applications they are using over the network. In the end, it’s the most important indicator for network performance.
QoEQuality of Experience
Indicates the overall performance of a network application, and how user’s experience is affected by the network conditions. is not just about end-users. Teleoperation of devices and vehicles demands sufficient quality from their connection to ensure efficient and safe operation. The assessed QoE also allows evaluation of network quality for automated systems, such as robots. With a single rating, it reveals whether the network quality meets the requirements of the intended use.
Security and Peace of Mind with Qosium
Service availability and performance issues can be fatal for network-dependent businesses. Yet detecting and resolving them is often challenging.
Qosium is the answer for network and service administrators, application developers, and device manufacturers. It meets the most critical requirements across industries like manufacturing and logistics. With Qosium, you can:
Qosium delivers the clarity and visibility your business needs regarding communications networks.
Measurement Results
Qosium’s real-time results data is uniquely precise, making it a trusted tool even in academic research. Results are collected bidirectionally, allowing separate assessment of sent and received traffic. While typically analyzed as averages, data can be drilled down to the packet level when needed. When location data is available, results can be visualized as striking QoS heatmaps.
Qosium’s most commonly used QoS statistics include:
Qosium also visualizes traffic statistics from any remote point, such as:
For wireless networks, Qosium collects radio interface statistics, helping quickly identify issues, such as which cell a device was connected to when a problem occurred and whether the signal was strong enough.
The flow analyzer reveals the characteristics of traffic passing through a measurement point. Classifying flows enables grouping traffic and easily detecting new or unknown traffic.
Real-time assessment of QoE is essential for network monitoring. A single metric shows whether performance meets the needs of applications, services, and devices using the network. Qosium includes user-tested, scientifically validated service experience models. Additionally, a flexible model allows customization for any application’s QoE evaluation.
Average QoS Statistics
Results are averaged and presented in real-time with, e.g., one-second interval. In addition to basic QoS parameters, such as packet loss, delay, and jitter, Qosium has over 60 different result types.
Per-Packet QoS Analysis
Packet results give accurate QoS statistics for every single measured data packet.
Traffic Flows
A list of traffic flows gives an intuitive view of where and what kind of connections are active in the device.
Packet Capture
Qosium has the capacity to capture full packets for later study with packet analyzers, such as Wireshark.
Features
How It Works
Are you interested in manual measurements or automatic monitoring? Use case sets the basis of what Qosium components you need to use.
Qosium is a distributed measurement solution, which is composed of three types of components: the measurement agent, measurement controllers, and results systems. From these components, the measurement agent and a measurement controller are always needed in a Qosium measurement, while a results system is typically involved only in larger installations.
The Measurement Agent
Qosium Probe is a light-weight measurement agent, which is installed to network devices from which QoS is desired to be measured.
Network devices can practically be anything that allow installing new software, including work stations, servers, routers, switches, mobile devices, and IoT devices. Measurement can be carried out at a single point. However, all the features of Qosium come into use when the measurement is between multiple points. Multipoint measurement enables measuring QoS performance end-to-end and over any part on the path.
Measurement Controllers
A measurement controller locates Qosium Probes in the network, parameterizes them, controls the measurement, and guides the results to be delivered where desired.
It can be a pure controller, in which case the results are processed elsewhere, or an analyzer, being capable of analyzing and visualizing the results in addition to the measurement control. Kaitotek offers three measurement controllers, and also an opportunity to develop a custom controller.
Qosium Scope is a powerful analyzer for creating, controlling, and parameterizing Qosium manual measurements. In addition, Scope collects and visualizes results. All the features of Qosium are available on Scope.
Qosium Scopemon is a measurement controller for automated monitoring. This enables, for instance, continuous monitoring of a critical communications system, allowing immediate reactions if QoS decreases excessively.
Qosium Scope Lite is a command-line tool for controlling measurements. It includes also limited real-time visualization capabilities. Scope Lite is especially suitable for constrained systems and creating measurements through scripting.
A custom controller can be implemented by using the QMCPQoS Measurement Control Protocol
Kaitotek’s proprietary protocol for controlling measurements and gathering measurement results. interface. Kaitotek offers a straightforward QMCP control APIApplication Programming Interface
An interface in software, which allows a third party to interact with the software programmatically. for all their customers, enabling direct Qosium measurement control, e.g., from a network management solution.
Results Systems
The main task of a results system is to gather and store measurement results. Generally, it also provides wide-scale results management and analysis capabilities.
A separate results system is not a mandatory part of a Qosium measurement. Still, it becomes handy when the measurement setup is large or the use case is of automatic monitoring. Results systems may also incorporate centralized visualization and analysis functionalities. Advanced results systems can also act as measurement controllers, providing full-scale capabilities for network monitoring.
Qosium Storage is the results system of Kaitotek. It includes a database and comprehensive network-wide visualization capabilities through a web browser-based user interface. The system also features measurement management and alert functions, making Storage a complete network monitoring solution. Additionally, REST API access enables both control and direct retrieval of results.
A custom results system can be implemented by using the QMCPQoS Measurement Control Protocol
Kaitotek’s proprietary protocol for controlling measurements and gathering measurement results. interface. Kaitotek offers a straightforward QMCP listener API for all customers, enabling direct Qosium results collection. A typical use scenario is that Qosium acts as a data producer in customer’s own monitoring system.
Measurement Device
Are you interested in Qosium, but external software installations are not possible in your environment? Don’t worry: we have a solution.
Qosium Node is a standalone measurement device containing Qosium measurement software with a permanent license. It creates a measurement point where no software can be installed. Nodes can be used alone, or they can be part of a larger Qosium setup for occasional measurements or continuous monitoring.
