WaveBlade WiFi 802.11a/b/g
(1-port WBW1101 & WBW1101P, 4-port WBW1104)

VeriWave’s WiFi 802.11 a/b/g WaveBlade series offers flexible, comprehensive testing of Wireless LAN network infrastructure devices including enterprise and consumer Access Points (APs) and controllers as well as wireless-enabled client devices such as PCs, dual-mode phones, patient monitors and scanners. Scalable to 18,000 clients within a single WaveTest chassis, the WiFi WaveBlade series integrates traffic generation, performance analysis, mobile client behavior and distance emulation and enables both cabled lab testing as well as open-air field testing.

The WiFi WaveBlade series generates multi-protocol IP traffic from hundreds of independent stateful clients creating real world traffic conditions including inter-client contention. The effects of distance and propagation on AP and controller performance can be characterized through the granular variation of transmit power exhibited by each individual client.

The single-port WBW1101, the high-power WBW1101P and the 4-port WBW1104 are all line-cards that fits into VeriWave’s WT90 and WT20 chassis and interwork seamlessly with the WaveBlade WiFi 802.11n and WaveBlade Ethernet line-cards, offering seamless testing of the converged wireless/wired network edge.

In addition the 802.11a/b/g functionality, the WBW1101P high power module is a fully featured, single stream 802.11n solution supporting rates up to 150 Mbps that is suitable for open-air testing.

Typical lab test setup using WBW1104

Open-air field test using WBW1101P

Benefits

• Up to 500 fully independent, stateful 802.11 client state machines per port enable precise measurement of critical performance metrics at data rates reaching up to maximum theoretical limits
• Highly customizable mobile client roaming behavior
• Complete control over client medium access times to generate aggressive non-compliant clients and study the effects thereof on the AP and Controller
• Built-in transmit power control and per packet frame-error-injection to emulate real-world distance effects between AP and client
• Execute open-air field tests and/or cabled tests in lab environments
• Capability to introduce real-world effects such as hidden-node issues that cause client collisions resulting in transmission of malformed packets to the AP
• Industry-best simultaneous bi-directional (TX/RX) air-rate packet capture support of up to 256MB on each port
• User customizable client behavior and Traffic types ranging from raw 802.11 frames to a variety of IP-based higher level protocols including UDP, RTP etc.
• Fast, flexible functional, integration, and negative testing using VeriWave’s WaveDynamix™.
• Ease-of-use through simplified set-up in a wide-array of VeriWave Test Suites, Applications and WaveAutomation

Specifications

Minimum Requirements

 

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