The Homer Encapsulation Protocol is the open, vendor-neutral envelope that carries captured signaling, media metrics and logs from any source to hepic.
HEP (Homer Encapsulation Protocol), also known as EEP, wraps a captured packet together with the metadata you need to make sense of it - source and destination, timing, protocol type and the capturing agent's identity. Because the format is open and self-describing, any HEP-enabled tool can emit it and hepic can index, correlate and analyze it without bespoke parsers.
Illustrative - chunk types are extensible per the HEP3 spec.
HEPAgent is the most advanced HEP agent on the planet and comes bundled with every hepic deployment. Our unique design allows our agents to capture, collect, correlate and analyze millions of concurrent calls in real-time without violations of end-user privacy.
Analyze millions of concurrent calls up to 10G-40G-100G/s
Wire-rate SIP and RTP capture into HEP, tuned for dense signaling and media on production networks.
One agent collects signaling, media stats and session records into a single stream to hepic.
Session-aware correlation so SIP and RTP land in hepic as one call, not disconnected packets.
Record SIP/RTP sessions into hepic without a second probe, a tap farm or a separate recorder.
Deploy lightweight HEP agents across every node - SIP proxies, SBCs, media engines - and stream them to a single hepic collector.
Each node wraps its packets in HEP3 and ships them over HEP/TLS.
hepic ingests every agent, authenticating by capture-agent ID and key.
Cross-protocol correlation stitches signaling and media into one call flow.
HEP is universally available in the major open-source VoIP projects, and adopted by commercial SBC and IMS vendors. Point any of them at hepic.
Native HEP clients ship in the major open-source stack - SIP proxies, PBXs, media engines and capture tools. No proprietary probe required.
HEP is also adopted by commercial SBC and IMS vendors. Stream from Sansay, Ribbon, Sonus, Avaya and others on the same envelope.
Native HEP clients · see the full list at awesome-hep
Point any HEP-enabled source at hepic - or run HEPAgent - and watch your network light up in real time.