Solutions for Manufacturers of Secure Ethernet Switches and Branch Office Routers

VeriWave offers solutions to help developers and manufactures of secure Ethernet switches and branch office routers ensure the readiness of their devices for the rigorous security, triple-play and wireless/wired convergence requirements of contemporary networks.

As more wireless LAN devices appear in the enterprise, security has become a prime differentiator of Ethernet switches as customers seek reliable and comprehensive mechanisms to protect the network from unauthorized users and devices. This is typically addressed through ubiquitous deployment of 802.1x.

Development, QA and final testing of 802.1x enabled switches and routers

VeriWave’s test solutions provide both functional and performance testing of 802.1x enabled switches and routers across large numbers of Ethernet ports and large numbers of wireless LAN Access Points:

• Verify functionality across the rich range of authentication mechanisms through dozens of authentication protocols
• Perform comprehensive functional testing by progressing only partially through the 802.1x handshake
• Conduct negative testing by sending out-of-order frames and partially completed handshakes to assess the system’s response
• Generate both the control traffic and the data plane traffic to test that the protocol handshakes and the enforcement mechanisms are working properly and the system can be tested under high levels of control and data plane traffic

The VeriWave solution for functional and performance testing of secure Ethernet switches and branch office routers 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

• 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
• WaveQoE – Test suite models real-world deployment network scenarios, such as corporate office, branch office and wiring closet, and assesses the end-users’ actual quality-of-experience
• 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
• The broadest 802.1x authentication protocol support available
• Simple automation for regression testing
• Real-time feedback enables quick determination of how physical-layer impairments impact application-layer performance
• 802.1x as a standard product offering, allowing the solution to be used in all test cases without custom scripting
• The only test system to employ subscriber-centric / user-centric traffic generation to accurately create the network edge traffic conditions
• The only test system offering pre-packaged, diverse, vertical market network conditions such as branch offices, corporate offices, education and healthcare