Lorenzo Mangani

Exploring viable methods to build decentralized, secure, encrypted p2p tracing/logging/capture swarms using HEP and DHT to provide for the present and future needs of webRTC platforms and other next-generation real-time communication systems.

HOMER 2020: The future of the HEP Stack

Meet the latest HOMER and its ground breaking features, and learn about our project vision for the future of HEP and OSS RTC monitoring tool and technologies

Can HOMER be used to generate RTC Statistics and Timeseries for Monitoring, Alerting and train Machine Learning? Open-Source says Yes!

The HEP stack has been completely redesigned to support the many faces of RTC (Janus, Jitsi, Mediasoup and more) and moderns Event based flows, extending both the User and Developer front with powerful diagnostic and investigative tools alongside cross-platform libraries ready for integration of Capture, Deep-Packet Inspection and Extraction pipelines. Find how to leverage the latest and greatest HEP tools to build your very own Monitoring and Troubleshooting tools, while staying 100% Open-Source!

HOMER 7 is the latest generation of our FOSS RTC and VoiP Capture Framework, focused on integration, modularity and multi protocol support.

HOMER 7 is the latest generation of our FOSS RTC and VoiP Capture Framework, focused on integration, modularity and custom protocol support. Ships statistics and custom detections via direct integration with Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graylog and many more. Allows handling multiple protocols, including custom onesusing the new dynamic JSON HEP types and auto-mapping and indexing features in the new nodejs backend. Modularize your setup to provide the functionality you need and distribute the capture overhead.

HOMER 6 allows users to Export, Analyze and Alert RTC and VoIP sessions in real time using popular Big-Data backends such as InfluxDB and Elasticsearch providing unprecedented flexibility and opening the way for new uses of the platform in larger ecosystems with business intelligence feeds.

VoIP/SIP Monitoring and Troubleshooting have never been simpler! Our Workshop provides a brief history of classic VoIP Capture tools and introduces HOMER 5, SIPCAPTURE's flagship Open-Source VoIP Capture, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Appliance with its powerful packet capture companion tools, providing tight native integration with all major OSS VoIP Platforms (Kamailio, OpenSIPS, FreeSwitch, Asterisk and more) and hooks into external dbs/bigdata for endless integration based on the EEP/HEP Encapsulation protocol.

The latest generation HEP (HEPv3) has been designed with much more than SIP in mind, and can now encapsulate just about any signaling protocol such as H323, IAX, SS7, control protocols like MGCP, MEGACO as well as RTP / RTCP statistics. As a unique feature HEPv3 is able to send custom defined parameters specific to a growing list of vendors.

The latest generation HEP (HEPv3) has been designed with much more than SIP in mind, and can now encapsulate just about any signaling protocol such as H323, IAX, SS7, control protocols like MGCP, MEGACO as well as RTP / RTCP statistics. As a unique feature HEPv3 is able to send custom defined parameters specific to a growing list of vendors. For instance, Asterisk can decide to send additional information about a specific channel (ie: bridge id, billing id, etc) independent of other platforms/vendors, natively and within the same encapsulation protocol. HEPv3 also fully supports streaming protocols (TCP/SCTP) and presents no MTU or defragmentation challenges and was ultimately designed for total scalability, making it perfect to be deployed in both classic and modern cloud scenarios.

An real life example is "Homer in the Cloud", a service created around HEPv3 allowing anyone to sign-up and immediately start feeding their HEP encapsulated traffic from their networks over to cloud servers to analyze/troubleshoot/share the database remotely and securely from anywhere using just their browser (based on webHomer OSS) delivering results with zero setup and maximum flexibility.