WaveInsite™ - Rapid Interoperability and Performance Testing
WaveInsite - is the fastest way to conduct “over the air” WiFi interoperability & performance testing between WiFi Access Points and multiple real client devices. With WaveInsite, testers can configure, automate and repeat a series of tests within minutes, measuring speed, throughput, goodput, loss, scalability, voice quality and vendor/device interoperability.
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WaveInsite - 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 WaveInsite, 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
WaveInsite utilizes WaveAgent, a tiny 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.
It addressess 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 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.
Benefits
- Enables rapid Over the Air (OTA) testing with real client devices such as laptops, mobile phones, scanners, patient monitors, etc.
- Setup and run tests in less than 5 minutes
- Real time and overtime results
- Quickly and easily conduct “what if” interoperability tests between various client devices and Access Points
- Quickly identify and pinpoint potential problems
- Compare results against pre-set SLAs
- Provides precise, repeatable, test-grade, OTA performance measurements in ideal conditions as well as within an eco-system of other devices generated by the VeriWave WiFi port to compare ideal conditions to real-world conditions
- Simplifies Rate vs. Range (RvR) and Throughput-Distance measurements
Tests Configuration, Results and Metrics:
- Single-page dashboard – 5 clicks or less to start test
- Results are measured and collected using WaveAgent; one WaveAgent installed on each client participating in test (laptop, Smartphone, etc.)
- Seamless integration with VeriWave’s WiFi traffic analysis blades to “sniff” the air and quickly determine the root-cause of less than expected performance
- Seamless integration with VeriWave’s traffic-generation capabilities to create eco-system traffic and test the behavior of real clients under high-load traffic conditions
- Set pass/fail performance criteria for each client device
Test Configuration
Test Results
- WaveInsite provides both real-time results and final test results and metrics. These results can be exported in a comma separated value (.CSV) file format or HTML to facilitate results analysis and reporting.
- UDP throughput, TCP Goodput, Loss
- Voice MOS and R-Value
- Mobile client measured RSSI
- Automatic generation of a simple-to-read PDF report after each test
- Automatic comparison of test results against user pre-set Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to gauge end-user satisfaction
- View Sample test rports
Functionality
- Operates in conjunction with a “host” VeriWave Ethernet Traffic Generation / Analysis port connected to the network that communicates with all third-party clients hosting WaveAgent
- Test traffic generated by the VeriWave test port is handled by WaveAgent 2.0 on each third-party mobile client without higher layer applications interfering with measured results
- WaveAgent can be run from a USB drive without installing any permanent software onto the third party clients
- Supported operating systems for third-party mobile clients hosting WaveAgent:
- Windows XP
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
- Windows Mobile 6
- Linux—2.6 or higher kernel
- MAC OS X
Minimum Requirements
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- Test Suites
- WaveQoE End User Quality of Experience Test
- WaveVideo
- WaveAgent
- WaveInsite
- IEEE WLAN Benchmarking Test
- WLAN Roaming Test
- WaveGen
- RF Interference and DFS Radar Pulse Generation
- WaveClient
- VoIP QoS Service Assurance Test
- Muni Wireless Mesh Test
- Test Tools
- Interface Cards
- Chassis & Chambers
- Services
- WaveDeploy