Residential Gateways and Routers
VeriWave offers solutions to help developers and manufactures of broadband residential gateways and routers ensure the functionality, compliance, quality and performance of their devices to deliver value-added triple-play services and support wireless/wired convergence. VeriWave’s solutions ensure that the gateways and routers are tested to the highest quality and performance standards.
Why test Broadband Residential Gateways and Routers?
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). Service providers now conduct rigorous testing and comparisons between vendors of broadband residential gateways and routers. VeriWave’s solution is designed to verify the quality of these devices and their ability to deliver data, voice, traditional video and high definition IPTV.
Who should use VeriWave’s solutions?
- Hardware designers
- Software developers
- Integration engineers
VeriWave’s test solutions offer design and development verification from the earliest stages of hardware and software development and integration. They offer precise and repeatable test traffic generation and analysis at the physical layer and all network protocol layers.
- Development test engineers
- Quality Assurance (QA) and Product Validation (PV) engineers
- Manufacturing test engineers
- Technical marketing engineers and those conducting competitive marketing
VeriWave’s tools are specifically designed to test broadband residential gateways and routers using a client-centric model. This approach delivers repeatable large-scale, real-world test scenarios which are virtually impossible to create by any other means.
The use of VeriWave for functional and performance analysis reduces test cycles from months to days and increases test coverage. As a result VeriWave offers efficiency gains and cost reductions, along with the capability to identify bugs early in development & QA cycles.
How can VeriWave help when verifying client device interoperability and acceptance?
Testing the interaction and impact of fully loaded live networks against specific devices and applications is essential to determine which brands, models and configurations will perform and interact best in existing networks and planned deployments.
Using VeriWave’s WaveInsite for Interoperability Testing, users can:
- Combine real traffic from actual devices with test traffic to conduct comprehensive “what if” testing in fully loaded networks and peak conditions.
- Measure the performance of 802.11n chipsets / driver combinations as well as end-user Quality of Experience metrics such as forwarding rates, stateful TCP goodput, loss, jitter, voice MOS and voice R-Value.
And while traditionally when poor performance was observed, determining the root cause proved tedious and time-consuming, WaveInsite clearly distinguishes client issues from network issues, minimizing costly delays and finger-pointing.
What does the VeriWave solution include?
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- RF Interference and DFS Radar Pulse Generator – simplifies radar pulse avoidance and DFS compliance testing by offering a library of common waveforms in the 802.11 bands, including Bluetooth, Microwave oven and DFS radar pulses. Controlled via a “point and click” GUI.
- 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