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

WaveClient - Utilizes the air-rate traffic generation and analysis capabilities of VeriWave’s WiFi WaveBlade, and the line-rate traffic generation capabilities of VeriWave’s Ethernet WaveBlade. Both blades offer the unique ability to create real-world network conditions in the lab and test the wireless enabled devices in the same conditions they will experience once deployed, all while maintaining complete control of the environment. Through packet-by-packet un-filtered traffic capture, abnormal client behavior can easily be detected, what-if scenarios can be created and tests repeated in an automated fashion to determine long-term stability of the device being tested.

WaveClient allows clients to be tested and optimized for “real-world wireless environments” & other “what-if” scenarios in a controlled environment and customized conditions. WaveClient generates an entire deployment specific environment consisting of WLAN clients such as laptops, phones, scanners, patient monitors etc. and traffic such as HTTP, SIP calls, unicast and multicast MPEG-2 video, FTP, bar code transactions etc. Traffic behavior is precisely controlled including traffic rate, start time and end time. The wireless enabled device is put to test in each of the desired network conditions and its behavior is being observed . The effects of the DUT on the network are also being 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, etc.

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

• Uncovers client’s real-world operational issues before deployment
  • Low Traffic rate, slow download time, dropped VoIP calls etc.
  • Easy to customize test settings and ready-to-use wireless environments, including: healthcare, education, hot-spot, retail, warehouse, corporate network

• 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

• 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

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

Capabilities

• Baseline WLAN network or AP performance
  • Understand the performance of the network or AP independent of your client operation
  • Provides clear de-lineation of issues related to network or client

• 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
  • 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

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