VeriWave Solutions for Enterprise IT Departments

VeriWave offers solutions to help enterprise IT departments deploy wired and wireless edge networks with confidence in the products chosen and the network design.

Pre-deployment Lab Testing

Vendor selection:

Selecting the right vendor to equip your network can make the difference between a fully functional network with satisfied users, and a network that requires constant updates and maintenance. VeriWave’s test solutions can be used to perform comprehensive comparative testing of:

• Corporate grade WLAN Access Points and controllers for deployment in the enterprise network
• Edge routers for branch and corporate offices
• WAN backhaul devices and WAN acceleration devices for remote offices

Network planning:

Realistic network planning is one of the most significant means to reduce long-term network operation costs. When planning WLANs it is common for enterprise IT departments and system integrators to spend significant amount of time analyzing and planning Access Point placement while neglecting to plan for capacity, service differentiation and QoS. This contributes to frequent network re-balancing, addition or re-location of Access Points and many times causes end-user dissatisfaction. VeriWave’s test solutions offer an IT department or a system integrator the unique ability to pre-qualify a network in the lab to assess how it will function once deployed.

The VeriWave Solution

Traffic generators / analyzers:

• WaveBlade WiFi 802.11a/b/g – 1 or 4 ports per blade
• WaveBlade WiFi 802.11n – 2x2 or 3x3 MIMO
• WaveBlade Ethernet – 1 or 4 ports per blade

WaveQoE – test suite models real-world networks based on vertical market scenarios, such as branch office, SOHO, and corporate office, and assesses the end-users’ actual quality-of-experience

WaveMTP - a comprehensive automation package that automates tests contained in the VeriWave Master Test Plan

Wireless Mesh Test Suite - designed to analyze a wireless mesh network’s ability to forward and route campus or metro-scale traffic, including voice, video and data, under various RF conditions

WaveQoE

VeriWave’s WaveQoE is the only test solution capable of generating test traffic that precisely models the actual traffic that will be seen on the network after it is turned on and measure individual Quality of Experience (QoE) for each user type and each application using the network.

Traffic profiles generated by the VeriWave system include:

• The precise modeling of each device used on the network, including PCs, laptops, VoIP phones, PDAs, scanners, cameras, RFID tags, etc.
• The relative network utilization of each device and application
• The number of users that will use each application

VeriWave offers the following vertical industry traffic models:

• Corporate branch offices
• SOHO - Small Office / Home Office
• Hot spots
• Healthcare
• Warehousing
• Retail
• Education

Benefits:

• Network operations cost reduction through performance and service quality verification before deployment
• Tests conducted in a wide range of operational scenarios that would otherwise be impossible to recreate before network goes live
• Assess network to realistic deployment scale and traffic mix that precisely replicates the vertical market used
• Use of automation reduces test cycle time from months to days with minimal tester intervention

Field Testing

Testing a wireless network after installation consists, in most cases, of utilizing a laptop (or a few laptops) to walk around the building or campus while testing connectivity in as many spots as practical. However, this testing is extremely limited and not representative of the actual demands from the network once turned on:

• The network needs to support hundreds of simultaneous users, not one
• Laptops are merely one type of network users; others will include PDAs, phones, scanners, etc.
• There is no way to accurately measure the interaction and effects of various network users simultaneously contending for the network services

Deploying a wireless network and dealing with user’s complaints is an expensive and frustrating problem, as they will be reluctant to adopt the network for mission critical applications. The ability to characterize performance of a live network before turn-on can ensure its readiness for prime-time once turned on, thus significantly affecting user adoption and reducing cost in the long term. Similarly, the ability to quickly and accurately diagnose a network problem once it exists will reduce cost and increase user satisfaction.

VeriWave solutions for field testing of wireless networks include distributed, portable, field deployable test clients as well as fixed central office / data center test servers. For more information contact: sales@veriwave.com

Benefits:

• Portable field test systems generate dozens of concurrent voice, data and video sessions allowing for real-world testing of a live network in realistic conditions
• Eliminates bottle-necks at the distribution network and ensures accurate testing of access network
• Test before turn-on to reduce user complaints and support costs