WaveBlade WiFi 802.11n
(1-port WBW2000 & WBW1101P, 4-port WBW1104N)
The VeriWave 802.11n WaveBlade provides a state-of-the-art and an industry first test product to evaluate the functionality and performance of IEEE 802.11n based WLAN networking products. Designed for testing network infrastructure devices, including consumer Access Points and reference designs, enterprise/carrier-grade Access Points and controllers, and entire WLAN networks, the WaveBlade integrates both traffic generation/analysis and multi-path channel emulation capabilities on a single platform.
The WBW2000 generates traffic from hundreds of independent stateful clients and makes it easy to determine the effects of complex MIMO propagation on 802.11n Access Point and Controller performance by subjecting each individual client to any of the IEEE-defined channel emulation models.
The WBW1104N generates over 500 Mbps of traffic from 2000 fully stateful clients per blade to enable cost-effective, feature-rich functional and performance testing of 802.11n controllers.
The WBW1001P is a single port, high power 802.11 module suitable for open air testing.
The WaveBlade WiFi 802.11n is a line-card that fits into VeriWaves WT90 and WT20 chassis and interworks seamlessly with the WaveBlade WiFi 802.11 a/b/g and WaveBlade Ethernet line-cards. It provides the essential tools necessary to complete various types of testing ranging from functional testing at the AP level to scale testing a large 802.11n infrastructure network.
Benefits
- Up to 500 fully independent, stateful 802.11n clients per port enable precise measurement of critical performance metrics at data rates reaching up to maximum theoretical limits
- Highly scaled setup in a single test-bed to test real-world deployment levels of Controllers, APs and clients
- Built-in channel models help determine real-world performance in six typical WLAN multi-path scenarios, per recommendations of IEEE 802.11n task group (WBW2000 Only)
- Full support of legacy IEEE 802.11 a/b/g traffic generation and analysis
- Ease-of-use through simplified setup including single-click selection of desired channel model to be used on clients in a wide-array of VeriWave Test Suites.
Specifications
| WBW2000 | WBW1104N | WBW1101P | ||
| Number of ports | 1 x 802.11 a/b/g/n MIMO port | 4 individual and independent 802.11 a/b/g/n SISO ports supporting multi-user and multi-test beds | 1 x 802.11 a/b/g/n MIMO port | |
| Maximum number of ports per chassis | 9 | 36 | 9 | |
| MIMO configuration | Support for 2x2, 2x3, 3x3 with spatial multiplexing | Works with a single spatial stream per port only | ||
| PLCP mode | Legacy, Mixed mode | |||
| Operating frequency | 2.4 GHz, 4.9 GHz and 5 GHz | |||
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| Guard interval selection (per client control) | 800 / 400 ns | |||
| Spatial streams (NSS) | 1 to 3 | 1 | ||
| HT PHY rates | 6.5 Mbps to 450 Mbps (MCS Index 0 to 23) | 6.5 Mbps to 157.5 Mbps (MCS Index 0 to 7) | ||
| FEC coding rates | 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6 | |||
| Channel bandwidth | 20 MHz, 40 MHz | |||
| Legacy PHY rates | 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 Mbps | |||
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| Transmit power control | -50dBm to 0dBm in 1 dB steps | 0 dBm to +15 dBm in 1 dB steps | ||
| Transmit power accuracy | +/- 1.0 dB (typical) | |||
| Optional in-path attenuation | 20 dB | No | ||
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| Antenna interface connector configurations | 3 connectors |
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| Traffic timestamp accuracy | 50ns | |||
| Maximum number of stateful clients per port | 500 |
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| Maximum number of traffic flows generated per port | 1,000 |
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| Maximum number of traffic flows analyzed per port | 131,000 |
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| 802.11 MAC control (all parameters) | Independent per client | |||
| 802.1x authentication support | PEAP/MSCHAPv2, TLS, LEAP/EAP-FAST, TTLS | |||
| Encryption support | WEP-40 and WEP-104, TKIP (WPA, AES-CCMP (WPA2) | |||
| OSI layer 3 and layer 4 (IP, UDP, TCP, etc.) control (all parameters) | Independent per client | |||
| Port counters | Comprehensive set of layer 2, 3 and 4 frame types | |||
| Client control | Control frames, management frames, action frames | |||
| Flow and flowgroup counters | Frames sent / received, bytes sent / received, out-of-order frames, payload integrity, latency histogram | |||
Minimum Requirements
| VeriWave Test System | 1 x VeriWave WaveTest 90 or WaveTest 20 system |
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