Ethernet Switches and Branch Office Routers
VeriWave offers solutions to help developers and manufactures of Ethernet switches and branch office routers ensure the functionality, quality, performance, and readiness of their devices for the rigorous security, triple-play and wireless/wired convergence requirements of contemporary networks.
Who should use VeriWave’s solutions?
- Hardware designers
- Software developers
- Integration engineers
VeriWave’s test solutions offer design and development verification from the earliest stages of hardware and software development and integration. They offer precise and repeatable test traffic generation and analysis at the physical layer and all network protocol layers.
- Development test engineers
- Quality Assurance (QA) and Product Validation (PV) engineers
- Manufacturing test engineers
- Technical marketing engineers and those conducting competitive marketing
VeriWave’s tools are specifically designed to test Ethernet switches and branch office routers using a client-centric model. This approach delivers repeatable large-scale, real-world test scenarios which are virtually impossible to create by any other means.
The use of VeriWave for functional and performance analysis reduces test cycles from months to days and increases test coverage. As a result VeriWave offers efficiency gains and cost reductions, along with the capability to identify bugs early in development & QA cycles.
At which stages of development can VeriWave solutions for client devices be used?
VeriWave’s test solutions provide both functional and performance testing of 802.1x enabled switches and routers across large numbers of Ethernet ports and large numbers of wireless LAN Access Points:
- Verify functionality across the rich range of authentication mechanisms through dozens of authentication protocols
- Perform comprehensive functional testing by progressing only partially through the 802.1x handshake
- Conduct negative testing by sending out-of-order frames and partially completed handshakes to assess the system’s response
- Generate both the control traffic and the data plane traffic to test that the protocol handshakes and the enforcement mechanisms are working properly and the system can be tested under high levels of control and data plane traffic
What does the VeriWave solution include?
The VeriWave solution for functional and performance testing of secure Ethernet switches and branch office routers includes:
- Traffic generators / analyzers:
- WaveDynamix – verifies every aspect of the functional behavior and performance of a network device, under user-controlled changing network conditions including step-through frame reaction and negative testing
- WaveQoE – test suite models real-world deployment network scenarios, such as corporate office, branch office and wiring closet, 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.
- WaveAutomation - a comprehensive automation package that automated the VeriWave tests as well as the System Under Test (SUT)
Benefits
- The only integrated system to address functional and performance testing of converged wired Ethernet and wireless 802.11 LAN networks and network devices
- Full rate TCP traffic and higher layer applications such as HTTP, FTP, IPTV, VoIP to test out firewall policies
- The broadest 802.1x authentication protocol support available
- Simple automation for regression testing
- Real-time feedback enables quick determination of how physical-layer impairments impact application-layer performance
- 802.1x as a standard product offering, allowing the solution to be used in all test cases without custom scripting
- The only test system to employ subscriber-centric / user-centric traffic generation to accurately create the network edge traffic conditions
- The only test system offering pre-packaged, diverse, vertical market network conditions such as branch offices, corporate offices, education and healthcare