Testing with VeriWave ensures maximum performance for mobile networks, devices and applications in the real world. From development through deployment and beyond, VeriWave helps leading manufacturers, service providers and users measure, analyze and improve speed, quality, interoperability, compliance and other pivotal aspects of mobile performance.

Test Suites

WaveQoE™ - End User Quality of Experience Test

WaveQoE - End User QoE Test - offers network developers, QA engineers, installers and IT staff the capability to accurately determine how well business applications will perform in different usage situations, such as education, retail, corporate office, hospital and carrier networks. Application performance metrics provide the means for determining whether the system measures up to desired quality levels. These metrics precisely quantify the results, define a Service Level Agreement (SLA) in terms of quality thresholds, and compare actual measured test results to the desired SLA's.

WaveQoE is designed for testing of edge network devices such as access routers, gateways, security-enabled switches, application accelerators and WAN accelerators.

Using WaveQoE, it is easy to model real-world deployment scenarios and study the end-users' actual quality-of-experience. Creating "what if" scenarios to effectively plan for changes or added services, makes this an ideal solution for network managers, service providers and network equipment vendors.

WaveVideo^TM - SDTV / HDTV Wireless Video Test

WaveVideo offers developers, QA engineers, installers and IT staff the capability to accurately determine how well WLAN network devices are handling video streaming. The only WLAN test system to allow users to create hundreds of independent video flows, measure their individual quality and view the actual effects of the network on real video clips.

WiMAX TestWaveAgent^TM - Network Device Performance Characterization

WaveAgent - A small footprint software utility loaded onto a networking device. It provides device-specific measurements of forwarding rate, throughput, loss, round-trip latency and jitter when enabled by VeriWave's WaveDynamix and WaveClient applications. 

WaveAgent 2.0 OTA Interoperability Test

WaveAgent 2.0 Interoperability Testing - brings test-grade accuracy and repeatability to Over The Air (OTA) testing. It enables equipment vendors building WLAN networks and devices as well as users of WLAN networks to observe the interaction and impact of specific devices and applications on fully loaded live networks. With WaveAgent Interoperability Testing, users can combine real traffic from actual devices with controllable load of synthetic test traffic to conduct comprehensive "what if" testing in fully loaded networks and peak conditions.

WaveAgent 2.0 Interoperability Testing addresses the need to isolate issues to the client application, client driver, or network infrastructure, when poor performance is observed. Forwarding rate, loss, jitter, voice MOS and voice R-Value metrics can be obtained by installing WaveAgent 2.0 on third party client devices. Network Quality of Experience (QoE) as well as client-specific QoE can be determined and compared, making it easier to determine root cause. Validating vendor-proprietary capabilities such as classified authentication or encryption including WAPI, as well as client-specific features can be determined.

WaveClient^TM - 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.

IEEE P802.11.2 Standard WLAN Benchmarking Test

The IEEE P802.11.2 Standard WLAN Benchmarking Test - offers a complete set of automated tests to characterize and analyze the performance and scalability of WLAN networks and networks components. Critical metrics, including Throughput, Forwarding Rate, Loss and Latency are measured and reported.

Part of the WaveApps test suite, the IEEE P802.11.2 Standard WLAN Benchmarking Test offers the complete set of Layer 2 and Layer 3 performance metrics defined by the IEEE P802.11.2 WLAN benchmarking methodology for Access Points (APs), WLAN controllers and WLAN switches. The focus of this test is on providing WLAN performance metrics through automated tests with scalable client traffic generation to enable the user to quickly baseline the behavior of WLAN infrastructure network device and expose any bottlenecks that would cause performance and scalability problems.

VoIP QoS Service Assurance Test

The VoIP QoS Service Assurance Test - is designed to validate and ensure maintenance of service level agreements (SLAs) in high performance Voice-over-WLAN (VoWLAN) networks. It offers an automated approach to determining a network's service level capacity, performance, call quality metrics, and service level assurance offered by infrastructure WLAN equipment in the presence of multiple VoIP calls and data traffic.

With the increasing popularity of real-time, delay sensitive, applications such as VoIP, Quality of Service (QoS) protocols are essential to enable high priority voice and video traffic to share the medium efficiently with lower priority data traffic. The VoIP QoS Service Assurance Test Suite quantifies and qualifies the VoIP Service Level and Service Capacity of a WLAN network supporting mixed traffic including voice, video and data. It offers a comprehensive functional test to validate the Service Differentiation capability of the WLAN, enables verification of adherence to the IEEE 802.11e standard (as well as WMM), regression testing and performance-envelope testing/analysis.

These tests are designed to identify bugs early in development and QA cycles, increase test coverage, and automate the test environment. The use of this test suite reduces time-to-market, increases test coverage and optimizes deployment of triple-play wireless networks.

WLAN Roaming Test

The WLAN Roaming Test - offers a complete set of automated tests to analyze the ability of infrastructure-class WLAN networks and network components to handle hundreds of mobile clients roaming between Access Points (APs). The test provides precise measurements of roaming delay, call quality during roaming, and the network's overall capacity to handle mobile clients.

Addressing an urgent need for repeatable and reliable metrics in the wireless space, the focus of the WLAN Roaming Test is on providing WLAN mobility performance through automated tests with scalable client traffic generation, including VoIP over WLAN. This enables the user to quickly analyze the behavior of WLAN infrastructure network devices. Support for client initiated roaming as well as controller initiated roaming is provided, addressing Thin-AP and Thick-AP architectures. The WLAN Roaming Test is part of the WaveApps test suite, offering simple setup, comprehensive results reporting and test automation support, while maintaining the highest degree of flexibility and customization.

Wireless Mesh Test Suite

The Wireless Mesh Test Suite - provides mesh network equipment designers, deployment engineers, service providers and carriers with an essential test tool designed to analyze the mesh infrastructure's ability to forward and route metro-scale client traffic, including voice, video and data, under different RF conditions. The tests confirm performance to a guaranteed service level required to support mission-critical applications on a Metro Area Network (MAN).

Wireless Mesh Networking is experiencing explosive growth, becoming the primary driver of metro wide distribution for broadband multimedia services. The Wireless Mesh Test Suite provides a comprehensive set of tests that determines traffic re-route efficiency under controlled RF interference conditions, quantifies client capacity, and characterizes the multi-hop throughput and latency of a mesh network during development, QA, and prior to deployment. The test suite is ideal for regression testing and stress testing.

This test is designed to provide an automated and repeatable test solution for a variety of topologies. It increases test coverage and identifies bugs prior to deployment, thus increasing quality and reducing time-to-market.

Test Tools

WaveDynamix^TM

WaveDynamix - is an application that works with the WaveTest system to help development and test engineers at network equipment manufacturers and service providers quickly create a broad range of functional and scalability tests for 802.11 and Ethernet devices. The base 802.11 and 802.11n standards, at over 1500 pages in combined length, encompass a great deal of complexity, demanding that any quality product must be thoroughly tested to verify performance and stability. WaveDynamix^TM greatly simplifies this process by allowing functional components to be easily tested in isolation and then integrated and tested as part of the complete system.

WaveAutomation^TM

WaveAutomation offers a complete customized solution for automating WaveTest platform applications as well as the System Under Test (SUT). It provides an automation framework and services that allows for comprehensive user control and programmability along with the convenience of running fully automated tests while maximizing test coverage and reducing time to market.

WaveMTP^TM

WaveMTP - is a comprehensive automation package that automates tests contained in the VeriWave Master Test Plan. WaveMTP speeds product and/or services time to market through management and automation of all tasks associated with testing wireline or wireless networks using the VeriWave WaveTest System.

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 VeriWave's 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.

WaveBlade WiFi 802.11a/b/g

(1-port WBW1101 & WBW1101P, 4-port WBW1104)

VeriWave's WiFi 802.11 a/b/g WaveBlade series offers flexible, comprehensive testing of Wireless LAN network infrastructure devices including enterprise and consumer Access Points (APs) and controllers as well as wireless-enabled client devices such as PCs, dual-mode phones, patient monitors and scanners. Scalable to 18,000 clients within a single WaveTest chassis, the WiFi WaveBlade series integrates traffic generation, performance analysis, mobile client behavior and distance emulation and enables both cabled lab testing as well as open-air field testing.

The WiFi WaveBlade series generates multi-protocol IP traffic from hundreds of independent stateful clients creating real world traffic conditions including inter-client contention. The effects of distance and propagation on AP and controller performance can be characterized through the granular variation of transmit power exhibited by each individual client.

The single-port WBW1101, the high-power WBW1101P and the 4-port WBW1104 are all line-cards that fits into VeriWave's WT90 and WT20 chassis and interwork seamlessly with the WaveBlade WiFi 802.11n and WaveBlade Ethernet line-cards, offering seamless testing of the converged wireless/wired network edge.

In addition the 802.11a/b/g functionality, the WBW1101P high power module is a fully featured, single stream 802.11n solution supporting rates up to 150 Mbps that is suitable for open-air testing.

WaveBlade Ethernet

The VeriWave Ethernet Server WaveBlade provides a complete Layer 2-7 test product to evaluate the functionality and performance of Ethernet based networking products. Designed for testing network infrastructure devices such as Access Points, Broadband Home Gateways, Controllers, Switches, and Routers the Ethernet WaveBlade integrates traffic generation and analysis capabilities on a single platform.

Each Ethernet WaveBlade port generates fully-interleaved, multi-protocol IP traffic from hundreds of independent Ethernet clients or servers at wire-speed. It is a line-card that fits into VeriWave's WT90 and WT20 chassis and interworks seamlessly with the WaveBlade WiFi 802.11n and WaveBlade WiFi 802.11a/b/g line-cards. It provides the essential tools necessary to complete any type of testing ranging from functional testing to large scale testing. While its inter-working with the WiFi WaveBlades offers unique WLAN infrastructure testing capabilities, it can also be used for testing of Ethernet only networks and network devices.

WaveTest Multi Client Traffic Generator / Performance Analyzer

WaveTest is a powerful Traffic Generator / Analyzer capable of generating thousands of independent client sessions, each representing a unique user of the network. It offers native IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n interfaces as well as 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet interfaces. Using WaveTest, network traffic can be accurately, repeatedly and precisely created. WaveTest offers unique insight into the functionality, quality and performance of the network, or network component, under test.

Wireless Client Test Bench

The Wireless Client Test Bench is an integrated solution ideally suited for state-of-the-art testing of 802.11 clients. This highly integrated hardware and software solution allows clients to be tested and optimized for "real-world" wireless environments and other "what-if" scenarios in a controlled environment.

WaveChamber^TM - RF Isolation Enclosure

The WaveChamber is designed to provide a simple and space-efficient solution for large-scale testing environments which involve multiple Wireless Access Points. It provides the isolation, cooling, and filtered signal connectivity needed to achieve accurate and repeatable results.

WaveChamber provides an RF-isolated environment small enough to support rack-mounting and desktop use, yet large enough to house most Access Points. Bulkhead mounted connections for RF cabling, filtered 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet and console ports make interfacing to any Access Point quick and easy. WaveChamber includes a fan and front-to-back airflow providing adequate cooling, whether used on the bench-top or stacked in high density racks.

WaveLab - WLAN Large Scale Test Bed

WaveLab - Located in San Jose, California, is equipped with the first ever enterprise-class WiFi^TM test bed capable of testing dozens of access points, and multiple switches and controllers.  WaveLab is ideal for stress-testing of WLAN equipment under real world large deployment scenarios.

As the average number of access points per installation continues to increase, large scale testing on WLAN systems prior to deployment is essential for both equipment manufacturers and service providers.  Large-scale testing is a better predictor of performance in enterprise settings, and is more stressful on the equipment than the usual method of running a few FTP sessions on a small collection of access points.