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Wi-Fi Assessment

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Which new mobile device will coexist best with existing wired and wireless clients?
Can we guarantee video quality during peak usage?
Access point coverage is strong but do we have enough Wi-Fi capacity?

Today's Wi-Fi networks carry everything from voice calls to patient diagnostics to vital transaction data. Mobile technologies must now perform as expected every time to avoid loss of revenues, customers, reputation, and even lives.

802.11n and 802.11ac promise the faster speeds and greater capacity needed to support voice and real-time media-rich applications, but wireless LANs (WLANs) are still highly susceptible to changing traffic conditions and nuances in live environments. Those designing Wi-Fi networks must go beyond vendor claims to assess:

  • The readiness of sites and networks to support mobility
  • Wi-Fi performance and QoE in unique live environments
  • Potential problem spots and client interoperability issues

Ixia: Demonstrating and Delivering Value

Ixia WLAN site and performance assessments deliver the industry’s most comprehensive means of benchmarking Wi-Fi readiness and quality. With a single sweep of a facility, we provide insight into the most critical decisions:

Brochures

Ixia Professional Services for Enterprise IT (5.91 MBpdf file) open in new window

Quick Reference Sheets

Microsoft Partner Wireless Access Point Qualification Testing (2.7 MBpdf file) open in new window

Professional Wi-Fi Assessments in Healthcare (326.85 KBpdf file) open in new window

Professional Wi-Fi Assessments in Healthcare (326.85 KBpdf file) open in new window

IxVeriWave Mobile Client Testing (422.01 KBpdf file) open in new window

Ixia Mobile Client Device Assessments (356.17 KBpdf file) open in new window

Enterprise Wi-Fi- Assessment (927.91 KBpdf file) open in new window

IxTest Wi-Fi Assessment (349.49 KBpdf file) open in new window

Case studies

Ensuring Life-Critical Communications at Madera Community Hospital open in new window

Leading Medical Equipment Manufacturer Evaluates Patient Vital Signs Monitor open in new window

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Case Study - Pre-Qualifying a Wireless Campus Network open in new window

AXA Technologies’ Proof of Concept Succeeds (1.14 MBpdf file) open in new window

Anue Network Emulation: Remote Storage and Disaster Recovery Performance Validation (328.71 KBpdf file) open in new window

Network Emulation Instills Confidence for Major Data Center Relocation (497.29 KBpdf file) open in new window

White Papers

Are Mobile Medical Devices "Hospital Grade"? Meeting the Challenge of Today's Healthcare WLANs open in new window

Site Assessment in Healthcare: Evolving "Best Practices" for Optimizing Wi-Fi Deployments open in new window

Network Applications: Ensuring Performance and QoE with Network Emulation (1.26 MBpdf file) open in new window

A Six-Step Plan for Competitive Device Evaluations (391.06 KBpdf file) open in new window

Testing Enterprise WAN Applications: Ixia Anue Best Practices Series (467.18 KBpdf file) open in new window

Measuring Latency in Equity Transactions open in new window

Delivering Breakthrough Performance with 802.11ac open in new window

802.11n Access Point Performance Goals open in new window

Technical Brief - Verifying 802.11n Access Points open in new window

WLAN Site Assessment - Best Practices for Pre and Post Deployment Verification (596.15 KBpdf file) open in new window

Test Plans

Enterprise Master Test Plan open in new window

  • Designing networks and placing access points
  • Planning for capacity (versus simply coverage)
  • Benchmarking equipment performance while selecting vendors and devices
  • Verifying client interoperability
  • Optimizing roaming performance
  • Defining service provider SLAs
  • Sourcing problems to the network or individual mobile clients
  • Maximizing application performance and end-user QoE

Ixia's Wi-Fi assessment solutions simulate your company's unique business environment, modeling diverse traffic conditions and "what if" scenarios to assess performance at scale. Test times may be reduced from weeks and months to days or even hours, with increased test coverage, built-in automation, and repeatability.

Ixia's products include:
  • IxVeriWave - Wireless LAN (WLAN) site and performance assessments
  • Ixia Professional Services - cost-effective onsite assessments of design, equipment, providers, performance and value