METHOD FOR EXECUTING MONITORING MEASURES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND DATA NETWORKS WITH, FOR EXAMPLE, AN IP PROTOCOL (INTERNET PROTOCOL)

摘要

The invention relates to a method for improving monitoring measures in telecommunications networks and data networks (typically IP-based networks with internet and intranet connection). Improved technological developments have resulted in the provision of packet-oriented mobile radio networks (GSM/GPRS, UMTS etc.) as well as in improved internet access over a fixed network, which offers cost-optimized internet access for flat rate or always-on traffic. Due to the fact that no public internet addresses are sufficiently available, public internet addresses have to be duplicated via port sharing (PAT), timesharing (NAT), applications sharing (proxy) or by other methods. When transforming an address at the network boundary, this information, however, is not available inside the network-internal communications protocol so that monitoring measures can only be implemented in a limited manner over network boundaries. The invention eliminates this problem by virtue of the fact that the converting devices are integrated in the monitoring measure via technical implementations that are used as desired, whereby the main focus of consideration is on a solution which is cost-effective and safeguards performance.