Hubei Mobile Signaling Monitoring Platform Construction — Building a Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform

1. Background

Hubei Mobile’s signaling network is a critical telecom support subnet; its reliability directly determines the communication quality of the entire network. In-depth signaling analysis and real‑time monitoring at the protocol, network, and service levels provide essential support for centralized service maintenance and management, network optimization, quality‑of‑service monitoring, business model analysis, network planning, and rapid fault location and troubleshooting. Hubei Mobile proposed building a unified signaling monitoring and analysis platform to detect signaling anomalies in real time, perform deep analysis, and extract actionable insights. This strengthens support for live network services and comprehensively enhances network management, O&M efficiency, and overall service capabilities.

2. Requirements Analysis

As Hubei Mobile’s services grow increasingly complex and signaling data volumes surge, the signaling monitoring system must be built on an OLAP‑friendly architecture. This enables online dynamic scaling to handle massive data processing demands and rapidly perform complex analysis on large‑scale data.

3. Solution

The data sharing layer of Hubei Mobile’s signaling monitoring platform uses GBase 8a MPP Cluster to build the storage module, retaining and processing all types of signaling data consolidated by front‑end acquisition gateways. Based on a modern Shared‑Nothing MPP cluster architecture, GBase 8a MPP Cluster performs comprehensive, in‑depth analysis of network signaling and provides functions for statistical data and report ingestion, query, and management. Its online dynamic horizontal scaling mechanism meets the ever‑growing demand for signaling data processing.

The entire network adopts a dual‑network, dual‑plane architecture to ensure high availability and completely eliminate single points of failure. GBase 8a MPP Cluster consists of loader servers and data nodes. Each cluster node acts as both a compute node and a management node, eliminating the need for a dedicated master node. The system currently processes dozens of terabytes of data. Each node has two 10 Gigabit NICs bonded for high availability.

4. Value Delivered

• Unified Signaling Monitoring Across the Network: Effectively supports real‑time correlation requirements for major events, delivering end‑to‑end fault location and service analysis capabilities across the entire network.

• Massive Data Support with Dynamic Scalability: Eliminates system bottlenecks and resolves performance risks caused by hundred‑fold growth in network data traffic.

• Low Investment, High Efficiency: Runs on low‑cost x86 PC servers, significantly reducing investment while delivering an order of magnitude greater processing power than competing solutions.

• High Availability: Backup strategies based on security groups ensure that service continuity is maintained even when a node fails, with no impact on service delivery.