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WaveTest 6

Next-generation Wi-Fi test platform

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Highlights

  • Simulate large-scale and real-world Wi-Fi deployments with complete client control
  • Optimize the AP scheduler with actionable key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • End-to-end traffic simulation and measurement with built-in Multi-Gig Ethernet
  • Accurately assess latency and throughput gains, with hardware-based measurements
  • Dive deeper with complete OFDMA packet captures and IxVeriWave custom Radio Tap Headers

Problem: Measuring Wi-Fi 6 Performance Gain

Wi-Fi 6 promises 4x performance gain in dense environments through efficient use of spectrum. For the first time, multiple Wi-Fi clients can transmit or receive concurrently using orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) with allocated resource units. As the number of simultaneous users scales up in a diverse client mix at varying distances, it becomes extremely challenging and time-consuming to debug and diagnose test sessions that involve multiple concurrent clients.

A next-generation test tool capable of simulating multi-user OFDMA at scale is required to fully validate the functionality and performance gain promised by 802.11ax technology.

Wi-Fi 6
Wi-Fi 6 test

Solution: Purpose-Built, Scalable, Multi-User OFDMA Wi-Fi 6 Tester

Based on custom radio, baseband, and FPGA technology, WaveTest 6 is the test solution capable of measuring multi-user OFDMA performance gain at scale. It can emulate up to 500 stateful clients and simultaneous users across all resource unit combinations. This high-performance hardware achieves theoretical maximum rates across all frame sizes.

The key is to validate the access point (AP) scheduler performance by modeling the real-world network with a diverse Wi-Fi 6 and legacy client mix at varying distances from the access point. Real-time statistics provide critical insights that help to correlate the Wi-Fi 6 network performance across layers. A single capture view helps you debug and diagnosis multi-user OFDMA issues.

WaveTest 6 integrates client simulation, traffic generation/analysis, and multi-user OFDMA packet capture capabilities in a single platform, making it a very powerful, one-stop solution for validating 802.11-based products.

Featured Resources

Data Sheets 2023.02.14

WaveTest 6E

WaveTest 6E

WaveTest 6E is the industry’s first purpose-built solution capable of modeling realistic deployment scenarios and measuring multi-user OFDMA performance gain.

2023.02.14

White Papers 2020.05.22

Are Wireless Medical Devices "Hospital Grade"?

Are Wireless Medical Devices "Hospital Grade"?

Wi-Fi-enabled medical devices are on the rise, driven by innovations like “smart” infusion pumps, ubiquitous mobile access to electronic medical records (EMR), and cost-savings from standards-based networks. These Internet of Things (IoT) devices are revolutionizing healthcare and transforming how healthcare professionals deliver services. What is today just a wireless medical device used to monitor a patient, may tomorrow allow healthcare professionals to prevent impending health crises before they can occur. But this vision can only be realized if the wireless medical devices and the networks on which they operate can deliver hospital-grade connectivity, security, and mobility. In this mission-critical environment, nothing can be left to chance. This white paper explores the diverse challenges impacting the WLAN and the growing number of wireless medical devices in hospital environments. It examines two real-world examples of IoT product releases gone wrong, providing an overview of the risks and issues inherent in optimizing wireless medical device performance. And, it outlines the best practices for cost-effectively mitigating those risks and ensuring the highest level of quality in life-critical deployment scenarios.

2020.05.22

White Papers 2020.05.24

BYOD Mitigation Starts in the WLAN

BYOD Mitigation Starts in the WLAN

BYOD and anywhere, anytime connectivity is now the norm. The added expectation is being able to run any application from any device. While BYOD clearly has its upsides, it also poses risks to the enterprise when adopting a BYOD strategy. Performance, and the overall user experience, can only be as good as what the network can deliver. The WLAN ecosystem of access points (APs), controllers, and user/client devices themselves must all work in sync to sustain performance and predictability as the mix of devices and applications changes from day to day, or minute to minute. In this informative white paper, BYOD Mitigation Starts in the WLAN, Ixia subject matter experts take you through BYOD mitigation techniques and the importance of validating throughout development, and most importantly, before bringing new AP and controller designs to market to assess device performance and the impact on live networks.

2020.05.24

Case Studies 2018.05.11

Evaluating Wireless Broadband Gateways for Deployment by Service Provider Customers

Evaluating Wireless Broadband Gateways for Deployment by Service Provider Customers

Read this case study to see how testing not only helped the provider assess the quality of two competing solutions, but also provided a clear picture of how each compared to enterprise-class wireless access points (APs).

2018.05.11

eBooks 2023.02.22

Nine Tests You Need Now for Edge-to-Cloud Networking

Nine Tests You Need Now for Edge-to-Cloud Networking

Network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) are innovating faster than ever to thrive in a world where disaggregated, multivendor, multi-cloud networks are the new norm. To enable open, cloud-native networks, you must deliver solutions that operate on a wide variety of white boxes, bare-metal servers, containers, and multiple clouds in addition to your original equipment manufacturer hardware. That innovation includes what you test and how you test to get high-quality, differentiated solutions to market ahead of the competition. This eBook highlights a few of the key network test areas important for NEMs that enable the edge-to-cloud continuum. For each area, we provide a brief introduction, key test requirements, test solutions, and links to additional resources.

Keysight Technologies 2023.02.22

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