Solutions for Manufacturers of Broadband Residential Gateways and Routers

VeriWave offers solutions to help developers and manufactures of broadband residential gateways and routers ensure quality of their devices to deliver value-added triple-play services and support wireless/wired convergence.

Service providers and MSOs are increasingly seeking opportunities to expand their revenue capture by offering compelling applications that run alongside triple play services, but must do so in a way that maintains a good customer QoE (Quality of Experience). VeriWave products are designed to test the broadband wired and wireless gateways that deliver conetnct rich media and support traditional video and high definition IPTV.

Development, QA and final testing of broadband routers and gateways

VeriWave’s test solutions provide both functional and performance testing of video, IPTV and HDTV enabled wired and wireless gateways and routers. The solution includes:

• 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 deployment network scenarios, such as typical residences, multi-dwelling buildings 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 customers 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.
• 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
• WaveAutomation - A comprehensive automation package that automated the VeriWave tests as well as the System Under Test (SUT)

Benefits:

• The only integrated system to address functional and performance testing of converged wired Ethernet and wireless 802.11 LAN networks and network devices
• Full rate TCP traffic and higher layer applications such as HTTP, FTP, IPTV, VoIP to test out firewall policies
• Configuration of bandwidth and stateful Triple Play traffic mix percentages for simple test specifications for link testing
• 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 residential, multi-dwelling, hot-spots, SOHO, educational, 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
• Virtually unlimited scalability in the number of CPE devices