WaveClient™ - Handset, Wireless Enabled Medical, Industrial & Retail Device Test Suite

WaveClient - Allows clients to be tested and optimized for “real-world wireless environments” & other “what-if” scenarios in a controlled environment. WaveClient generates an entire deployment specific environment consisting of WLAN clients such as laptops, phones, scanners and patient monitors with diverse traffic such as HTTP, SIP calls, unicast and multicast MPEG-2 video, FTP and bar code transactions. The wireless enabled device is put to test in each of the desired network conditions and its behavior is observed . The effects of the DUT on the network are also measured. WaveClient reports include: Data Forwarding Rate, latency, jitter, Voice quality (MOS and R-Value), Video quality (MDI score), roaming (hand-off) delay and quality. Utilizing WaveAgent, the device behavior and performance is measured from the exact point of view of the end-user.

Typical WaveClient Setup Typical WaveClient setup for a wireless-enabled device

Benefits

Quantifies and qualifies client device’s real-world performance
- Find out how well the wireless client connects, roams and transfers data under ideal, typical and peak network conditions
- Identify design issues with applications running on these clients that prevent proper operation even though the device may be functional

Ensures quality of experience for all users including client devices
- Avoid other users getting kicked off the network
- Improve application response time for all users on network

Obtain repeatable scenarios and reliable results
- Highly reproducible test conditions
- Run long-term tests without test setup failures

Improves test efficiency through easy setup and execution of tests
- Automated tests eliminate the need for frequent manual interventions
- Complete testing in minutes rather than days
- WaveAgent facilitates client performance testing for transmit and receive, stateful and stateless, and QoS-enabled functionality

Test Results and Metrics

The WaveClient test provides both real-time results and final test results and metrics. These results can be exported in a comma separated value (.CSV) file format or HTML to facilitate results analysis and reporting.
Automatically generated PDF test reports provide executive summaries, including comprehensive graphs, a description of the test, the significance of the results, and detailed results for drill-down analysis
View example test reports
Results include metrics directly affecting the user experience when using the client, such as:
- VoIP MOS scores, Video MDI scores, HTTP/FTP Goodput levels, FTP file transfer times, etc.
- Over time results displayed in real-time
- Total intended load, offered load and achieved load
- Time to roam between Access Points
- Client rate adaptation vs. attenuation or distance

Capabilities

Generate and analyze traffic using WaveAgent loaded onto the client device
- Enables simplified testing with clients inside chambers
- Small footprint facilitates work with embedded devices
- Supports Windows XP, Vista, Linux, and Windows Mobile

Offers appropriate tests and relevant results
- Verifies association and authentication capabilities under various network load, security and operating conditions
- Measures data forwarding performance when using different application, transport and security protocols, under normal network conditions
- Ensures low latency, jitter and high throughput for higher priority traffic, while still maintaining fairness when operating with other clients on the network
- Validates low latency roam times without packet loss in the presence of other clients

Creates various network conditions
- Protected-mode, near and far clients, bad clients, interference, traffic types

Provides air-rate and wire-rate packet capture capabilities
- Required to analyze and troubleshoot issues and failures

Produces complete and easy-to-understand test reports
- Highlight “good” performance as well as “bad” performance through important MAC-layer to application-layer metrics
- An effective communication tool across inter-related groups as well as between customers and vendors

Parametric Control of Eco-system Network

Control individual users of network or groups of users surrounding DUT
- Type of users (phones, scanners, laptops, etc.)
- Number of users
- Offered load by individual users, groups of users, or entire eco-system

Control of DUT roaming*
- Speed of roam
- Time of roam
- Frequency of roam

*All roaming controlled through variable attenuators

Minimum Requirements

VeriWave Test System	1x VeriWave WaveTest 90 or WaveTest 20 system 1x VeriWave single port Ethernet WaveBlade (WBE1101) 1x VeriWave WLAN WaveBlade (WBW1104 or WBW1104N) 1x VeriWave Client Test Bench
VeriWave Software	VeriWave L4 - L7 Stateful client generation WaveAgent
Host Computer	X86-based PC with 1GHz processor and 256MB RAM Windows XP SP2, or Linux (2.6 or higher kernel level)

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