Connection analysis in communication systems

A communication system comprising:

• a first network element capable of:
• establishing a plurality of terminations involved in a communication connection handled by a mobile communications system;
• providing user plane information in respect of the plurality of terminations;
• and
• providing user plane measurement data being associated with respective terminations;
• wherein the first network element is a decomposed gateway having a part handling bearer connections and a part handling call control;
• a second network element capable of providing control plane information identifying the plurality of terminations established at a transcoding unit of the first network element;
• a server capable of analysing in real time with a digital signal processor (DSP) the user plane measurement data in order to produce respective quality indications for respective ones of the plurality of terminations and generate enhanced user plane information incorporating the respective quality indications;
• a database wherein the control plane information and the enhanced termination reports are associated together in order to generate communication connection analysis.

A computer program, embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program comprising software code that when executed on a computing system, causes the computing system to perform:

• providing control plane information identifying a plurality of terminations established between a transcoding unit of a network element and a remote transcoder involved in a communication connection handled by a mobile communications system, wherein the network element is a decomposed gateway having a part handling bearer connections and a part handling call control;
• providing user plane information involved in the communication connection in respect of the plurality of terminations;
• providing user plane measurement data being associated with respective terminations;
• analyzing in real time with a digital signal processor (DSP) the user plane measurement data in order to produce respective quality indications for respective ones of the plurality of terminations;
• generating enhanced user plane information incorporating the respective quality indications;
• and associating together the control plane information and the enhanced termination reports.