WiFi Access Points and Wireless LAN Controllers
VeriWave offers solutions to help developers and manufactures of WiFi Access Points and Wireless LAN Controllers ensure the functionality, compliance, quality and performance of their APs and controllers. Whether developed for residential, corporate, industrial, educational, healthcare, or outdoor applications, VeriWave’s solutions ensure that the APs and controllers are tested to the highest quality and performance standards.
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 APs and WLAN controllers 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.
How can VeriWave help when verifying client device interoperability and acceptance?
Testing the interaction and impact of loaded live networks against specific devices and applications is essential to determine which brands, models and configurations will perform and interact best in existing networks and planned deployments.
Using VeriWave’s WaveAgent 2.0 for 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.
- Measure the performance of 802.11n chipsets / driver combinations as well as end-user Quality of Experience metrics such as forwarding rates, stateful TCP goodput, loss, jitter, voice MOS and voice R-Value.
And while traditionally when poor performance was observed, determining the root cause proved tedious and time-consuming, WaveAgent 2.0 OTA Interoperability Testing clearly distinguishes client issues from network issues, minimizing costly delays and finger-pointing
What does the VeriWave solution include?
- 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 offices, universities,
hospitals, residences, and hot-spots, 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 users 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
- Improve product quality and increase efficiency while reducing test costs and maximizing test coverage
- Unprecedented scaling to test thousands of independent clients in complex network environments with dozens of Access Points and multiple controllers
- Rapidly automate tests running uninterrupted for extended periods of time
- Sophisticated traffic and client scheduler controls each and every client independently while creating real-world client contention behavior
- Full rate TCP traffic and higher layer applications such as HTTP, FTP, IPTV, VoIP to test out firewall policies
- Measurements of real QoE, QoS, and flow metrics
- Strong security testing with the broadest 802.1x authentication protocol support available
- Traffic generation and analysis for vertical market profiles such as corporate offices, universities, hospitals, residences, hot-spots, etc. These profiles can be customized to fit the user’s specific vertical
- Simple automation for regression testing
- Real-time feedback enables quick determination of how physical-layer impairments impact application-layer performance