Enterprise IT Departments

VeriWave offers solutions to help enterprise IT departments deploy wired and wireless edge networks with confidence in the products chosen and the network design.

Where can VeriWave help Enterprise IT Departments?

VeriWave solutions can be used at a variety of phases of network build-out and deployment:

• Infrastructure network equipment vendor selection
• Network Planning
• Client device interoperability verification and acceptance

How can VeriWave help when selecting an infrastructure network equipment vendor?

Selecting the right vendor to equip your network can make the difference between a fully functional network with satisfied users, and a network that requires constant updates and maintenance. VeriWave’s test solutions can be used to perform comprehensive comparative testing of:

• Corporate grade WLAN Access Point and controllers for deployment in the enterprise network
• Edge routers for branch and corporate offices
• WAN backhaul devices and WAN acceleration devices for remote offices

How can VeriWave help when planning the network deployment?

Realistic network planning is one of the most significant means to reduce long-term network operation costs. When planning WLANs it is common for enterprise IT departments and system integrators to spend significant amount of time analyzing and planning Access Point placement while neglecting to plan for capacity, service differentiation and QoS. This contributes to frequent network re-balancing, addition or re-location of Access Points and many times causes end-user dissatisfaction. VeriWave’s test solutions offer an IT department of a system integrator the unique ability to pre-qualify a network in the lab to and to assess how it will function once deployed.

How can VeriWave help when verifying client device interoperability and acceptance?

Testing the interaction and impact of fully loaded live networks against specific devices and applications is essential to determine which brands, models and configurations of client devices will perform and interact best in existing networks and planned deployments.

Using VeriWave’s WaveAgent 2.0 OTA Interoperability Testing, users can combine real traffic from actual devices with test traffic to conduct comprehensive “what if” testing in fully loaded networks and peak conditions. With a minimal memory foot-print, WaveAgent 2.0 can be installed on a wide variety of devices ranging from latops to smart-phones, scanners, cameras, and wireless medical devices.

WaveAgent 2.0 OTA Interoperability Testing also addresses the need to validate vendor-proprietary features such as unique security capabilities or handheld usage of bandwidth optimization techniques such as Space-Time Block Coding (STBC).

Typically IT Managers are reluctant to install network performance monitoring applications on end-users devices for fear of compromising security, and of straining end-user computers.

VeriWave has overcome this issue by allowing managers to simply plug a USB memory stick running WaveAgent 2.0 into laptops or remotely downloading it into other devices. Resource usage is minimal and the test application is never installed on the actual devices making WaveAgent 2.0 highly efficient not only for initial interoperability and deployment testing but for measuring ongoing performance.

What does the VeriWave solution include?

• Traffic generators / analyzers:
  • WaveBlade WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n – 1 or 4 ports per blade
  • WaveBlade WiFi 802.11n – 2x2 or 3x3 MIMO
  • WaveBlade Ethernet – 1 or 4 ports per blade
• WaveAgent – a small SW utility loaded onto a wireless-enabled client device, enabling measurements of real-time throughput, loss, latency, and jitter; supports a wide range of client OS’s including Windows Mobile, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux, while having no effect on the operation of device
• WaveQoE – test suite models real-world networks based on vertical market scenarios, such as branch office, SOHO, and corporate office, and assesses the end-users’ actual quality-of-experience
  • WaveQoE provides simple specification of stateful, triple-play traffic that allows testers to see results as Quality of Experience, underlying quality of service, and ultimately individual flow metrics. The results presentation format provides a clear indication of whether or not customers would be happy with their application performance across the link and provides the underlying network metrics so appropriate QoS adjustments can be made to address any poor QoE results.

WaveQoE - a unique approach for network planning based on vertical markets

VeriWave’s WaveQoE is the only test solution capable of generating test traffic that precisely models the actual traffic that will be seen on the network after it is turned on and measure individual Quality of Experience (QoE) for each user type and each application using the network.

Traffic profiles generated by the VeriWave system include:

• the precise modeling of each device used on the network, including PCs, laptops, VoIP phones, PDAs, scanners, cameras, RFID tags, etc.
• the relative network utilization of each device and application
• the number of users that will use each application

VeriWave offers the following vertical industry traffic models:

• Corporate branch offices
• SOHO - Small Office / Home Office
• Hot spots
• Healthcare
• Warehousing
• Retail
• Education

Benefits

• Network operations cost reduction through performance and service quality verification before deployment
• Tests conducted in a wide range of operational scenarios that would otherwise be impossible to recreate before network goes live
• Assess network to realistic deployment scale and traffic mix that precisely replicates the vertical market used
• Use of automation reduces test cycle time from months to days with minimal tester intervention