GL Communications Inc.
GL Communications Inc. has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry providing equipment and consulting services. GL has a comprehensive suite of testing solutions to verify network performance in various telecom networks including wireless, fiber optic and traditional land line networks.
- (301) 670-4784
- (301) 670-9187
- info@gl.com
- 818 West Diamond Avenue
Third Floor
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
United States
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Direct Access To T1 E1 DS0 On OC-3/12 STM-1/4 On LightSpeed1000™
Voice, data, and video traffic is exploding as smartphones, IP TV, video streaming, and "cloud" based services takeoff. A majority of the backbone transport for these applications continues to be SONET and SDH optical transmission networks. A dominant protocol for IP transport is PoS (Packet over SONET) and another is ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode). Both schemes are packet based, with ATM using fixed size packets of 53 bytes called "cells", and PoS using variable packet sizes closely matching to Ethernet frames.
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Fax/ Modem Testing
To successfully deploy fax services requires extensive network design, test and traffic engineering. Test equipment can prove valuable in this process, if it can: Generate and receive fax signals in bulk over wired and wireless networks, monitor and distinguish fax signals in real time for traffic engineering and network design purposes, and analyze fax signals after capture for troubleshooting failed or poorly handled calls.
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Protocol Simulation
Message automation and protocol simulation test tool that supports simulation of a variety of protocols (VoIP/IP, TDM, Analog, Wireless) all within a single framework. The application includes various test plans and test cases to support the testing of real-time entities
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Multi-Interface TDM, Optical, And Packet/IP Rackmount & Probe Test Platforms
mTOP™
Most equipment manufacturers and large enterprises prefer rack-based test tools as they are compact and higher density form factor solution for testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting network conditions. GL’s Multiple TDM Optical and Packet (mTOP™) rack enclosure can house any combination of USB based test equipment which are easily deployed and securely fixed to an equipment rack to provide extraordinary scalability to test switches, routers and end-to-end networks. These rack based platforms incorporates the basic test unit along with the necessary PC hardware, Windows® 10 64-bit operating system and remote accessibility via scripting and remote desktop. There are no moving parts with the unit, so reliability and longevity are integral. GL’s latest mTOP™ Probe stand-alone hardware variant is an all-in-one self-contained test instrument. The mTOP™ Probe can include any of the multiple TDM Optical and Packet interfaces USB device combined with the PC into one single box. The comprehensive mTOP™ Probe hardware unit is designed for easier portability and convenient for field testing which incorporates the testing features for multiple interfaces along with necessary PC hardware in a single box. GL’s USB based test equipment - PacketExpert™ (Ethernet), tProbe™ (T1/E1), USB T3/E3 (TDM), Dual UTAs (Analog/Wireless), and LightSpeed1000™ (SONET SDH) to support multiple interfaces in a compact rack space or included in a portable Probe unit.
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T3/E3, OC3/OC12, & STM1/STM4 Testing
T3 E3 Analysis software compliments the hardware and supports simultaneously monitoring up to 12 x T3 E3 lines (2x Rack units) for all alarms, frame errors, signalling and data. If one adds the Channelized T1 Analyzer software to the system, then the T1s within the T3s can also be analysed in software, 12 x T3 E3 lines (=12*28 T1s) constituting 336 full duplex T1s, or 672 simplex T1s monitored simultaneously using a single Rack unit.
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Analog Platforms
(T1/E1/T3/E3/OC-3/OC-12/STM-1/STM-4)
Almost all T1 E1 T3 E3 Testers can be accommodated into rack-based units. Multiple rack units can be stacked together for greater scalability. Shown below is a rack based tProbe™ T1 E1 / T3 E3 Analyzer unit, and a Channelized T3 E3 Analyzer unit supporting 6 T3s (6 * 672 DS0s). Such customized rack serves the purpose of handling multiple communications lines and test complex functionalities.
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Voice Monitoring
VOIP Echo
*The Voice Band Analyzer (VBA) is an analysis tool for monitoring the quality of voice band traffic (including hybrid echo) over VoIP, TDM and wireless networks*VBA works in conjunction with GL's TDM, Packet, and Wireless non-intrusive capture products, such as T1 and E1 Call Capture and Analysis, VoIP PacketScan&trade, and GSM, CDMA, and 3G Call Capture Products. VBA instantly detects voice file captures and with appropriately installed analysis modules, monitors speech levels, noise levels, and hybrid echo. Other analysis modules such as ITU-T P.561, P.562, P.563, fax and modem analysis, and many others can be hosted as plug-ins.*The VBA application can also operate on pre-captured files. It supports A-Law, µ-Law, 16-bit PCM (Intel), 16-bit PCM (Motorola) and MS Wave file formats.*Required software PKV100 and VBA032 at each probe location and PKV170 PacketScanWEB - Network Surveillance Software*Required hardware - 1U rack PC with sufficient hard disk for capturing over 10,000 calls (80 GB HD) for each VBA colocated with a probe*Additional hardware - PC for PKV100 PacketScan™ Software
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IP / VoIP Analysis & Simulation
GL offers high density Ethernet/IP tester variant which includes mTOP™ 1U/2U rack mount enclosures within which PacketExpert™ portable USB units are stacked to provide high density GigE ports form factor solution for testing GigE switches, routers and network conditions.
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Voice Quality Solutions
Communications is dramatically changing right now, as “mobility” and “IP” technologies such as LTE, Advanced LTE, WiMax, 3G, and Broadband Internet, lead this transformation. As these technologies are rolled out, basic voice/video/data quality will ultimately determine the fate of carriers and end equipment manufacturers. Simple and effective methods of testing voice, video, and data are sorely needed - GL’s Voice, Video, and Data Quality Test Solution provides this flexibility of connecting to and between any network, any service, and any interface.
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Multi-Functional Ethernet Test Solution
PacketExpert™
PacketExpert™ 10GX is a comprehensive Ethernet/IP test solution supporting industry standard functionalities including wirespeed bit error rate testing (BERT), RFC 2544 / Y.1564 / RFC 6349 tests, packet capture, event-driven triggers and actions, traffic playback, impairment generation, stacked VLAN/MPLS tests, and many others.
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Communication Network Lab (5G, 4G, 3G, 2G, IP, TDM)
GL’s End-to-End Wireless Network Simulation Test Suite provides you an advanced full-fledged “Live Network” at your company premises in any customized package to suit test requirements.
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Network Surveillance System
The network backbone contains a wealth of information that can be monitored and collected to support diagnostic, troubleshooting, and fraud prevention activities. Surveillance of network characteristics is becoming more important than ever before. Few important aspects of network surveillance include, Performance Monitoring, Security, Fraud Prevention, Physical Layer monitoring, Billing Verification, Remote Protocol Analysis, Failure Prediction, Traffic Engineering, Call Quality Monitoring and Troubleshooting.
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Protocol Analysis
GL's protocol analyzer provides monitoring a communication link in accordance with industry protocol standards by non-intrusively tapping the network under test. The simple framework of the protocol analysis software helps you easily identify the improper sequence of protocol messages, and filter out frames causing the protocol violation.
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Hand Portable Test Instruments
GL’s PacketExpert™ 10G provides comprehensive testing of 10 Gbps wirespeed Ethernet/IP networks. It has two 10 Gbps Optical ports, and two 10/100/1000 Mbps Electrical/Optical ports capable of BERT, Smart Loopback, RFC 2544, ExpertSAM, Record and Playback, IPLinkSim™ and PacketBroker functionalities.
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IP Fax/ Modem Testing
To successfully deploy fax services requires extensive network design, test and traffic engineering. Test equipment can prove valuable in this process, if it can: Generate and receive fax signals in bulk over wired and wireless networks, monitor and distinguish fax signals in real time for traffic engineering and network design purposes, and analyze fax signals after capture for troubleshooting failed or poorly handled calls.
