Trace receiver and MME receiver service for RAN parser

A processing system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing instructions for programming the one or more processors to
• receive a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) data stream comprising Call Traces in vendor-proprietary formats from a mobile network having one or more vendor's equipment and one or more wireless technologies;
• decode a message from the data stream via one of a plurality of vendor- and technology-specific decoder types based on what network port the message was received on, wherein the port is used without analyzing content of the data stream and based on an operating-system determination to automatically decide which type of decoder must be used and detect how the decoding performs based on one or more of vendor's equipment and wireless technology;
• convert the message to a vendor/technology-agnostic common output format based on the decoding, wherein the common output format is a same format for the one or more vendor's equipment and the one or more wireless technologies;
• and
• provide the message in the common output format for subsequent processing.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions for programming one or more processors to perform steps of:

• receiving a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) data stream comprising Call Traces in vendor-proprietary formats from a mobile network having one or more vendor's equipment and one or more wireless technologies;
• decoding a message from the data stream via one of a plurality of vendor- and technology-specific decoder types based on what network port the message was received on, wherein the port is used without analyzing content of the data stream and based on an operating-system determination to automatically decide which type of decoder must be used and detect how the decoding performs based on one or more of vendor's equipment and wireless technology;
• converting the message to a vendor/technology-agnostic common output format based on the decoding, wherein the common output format is a same format for the one or more vendor's equipment and the one or more wireless technologies;
• and
• providing the message in the common output format for subsequent processing.