IxVeriWave WaveBlades

Problem: Complexity of Wi-Fi Ecosystems is Difficult to Test

Wi-Fi has fast become the industry-leading technology for fixed and mobile high-speed IP access. Users have high expectations that any application, at anytime, anywhere should work flawlessly. But the only way to ensure that it will work as it should, requires assessment and validation of the entire Wi-Fi ecosystem—networks, access points (APs) and Internet of things (IoT) devices.

Solution: The Industry’s Most Comprehensive Wi-Fi Test System

IxVeriWave WaveBlade series of load modules is  an industry-first test solution for evaluating the functionality and performance of IEEE 802.11-based WLAN networking products. WaveBlades integrate control-plane simulation, traffic generation/analysis,  and multi-path channel emulation capabilities on a  single platform, making it a very powerful, one-stop solution for validating 802.11-based products. Whether testing the AP, IoT device, or network, IxVeriWave WaveBlades give R&D labs the means to quickly and effectively validate Wi-Fi ecosystems.

IxVeriWave Golden Client

Modules provide the essential tools necessary to complete various types of testing, ranging from functional testing at the AP level to scale testing a large 802.11ac infrastructure network. 

• Up to 500 fully independent, stateful 802.11 clients per port enable precise measurement of critical performance metrics at data rates, reaching up to maximum theoretical limits

• Highly scaled setup in a single test-bed to validate real-world deployment levels of controllers, APs, and clients

• Ease-of-use through simplified setup including single-click selection of desired channel model to be used on clients in a wide-array of IxVeriWave test suites

• Built-in channel models help determine real-world performance in six typical WLAN multi-path scenarios, per recommendations of IEEE 802.11n task group

• Full support of IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac traffic generation and analysis through simplified setup in a wide array of IxVeriWave test suites, applications, and WaveAutomation

• DFS Pulse Generation capability for DFS Certification

Ixia IoT Golden AP

During the early stages of a product’s lifecycle, device manufacturers need a stable test platform  that can help them qualify functionality and baseline performance. Ixia’s Golden AP is designed to do just that. This is the only solutions in the market capable of simulating a fully configurable AP or an entire Wi-Fi network with multiple generations of APs (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac SISO to 4x4 MIMO), from a single card.

Built ground-up by Ixia and featuring several innovations that enable realism while also improving  time-to-market for any product, it’s a must-have for any R&D lab.

Key features

• Fully configurable AP “Golden AP”, 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac from SISO to 4x4 MIMO

• Enables network scale, 64 APs and clients simulated per port, to model Wi-Fi deployments and to test and optimize device performance

• Built-in Traffic Generation with line-rate throughput for benchmarking high performance Wi-Fi devices

• Real-time statistics and analysis, continuous monitoring of WLAN traffic, and large FPGAs to analyze and compute statistics in real-time

• Distance simulation measures performance of IoT device at various distances without having to move the device

• Channel emulation recreates real-world channel conditions as defined by TGn specifications and highlights performance degradation