Wi-Fi Performance Testing

The growing number of highly-mobile, always-connected wireless devices and services such as smart phones, tablets, medical equipment, and financial tools are exponentially expanding the demand for wireless access to high-speed networks. No longer just a "nice to have," Wi-Fi now ranks among the necessities of competitive business.

Investments in wireless LANs (WLANs) and devices continue to increase in value as:

• The development of the latest 802.11 standards enable faster speeds and higher-performance wireless
• Increasing competition amongst WLAN vendors results in decreasing prices
• Wi-Fi increasingly supports a multitude of voice, video, and data applications and services
• Access grows more ubiquitous worldwide
• 802.11ac promises even greater performance and capacity

Market-Oriented Wi-Fi Solutions

Ixia's IxVeriWave™solutions test Wi-Fi devices and wireless LAN networks using a unique client-centric model that precisely measures the real-world behavior of mobile device, their impact on other devices, and overall network performance. This approach delivers repeatable large-scale, real-world test scenarios that are virtually impossible to create by any other means.

IxVeriWave's WaveTest™ traffic generation and analysis systems reduce test cycles from months to days while vastly increasing test coverage. By generating and benchmarking client performance amidst production conditions, IxVeriWave offers efficiency gains and cost reductions, along with the capability to identify bugs early in development and QA cycles.

IxVeriWave's WaveDeploy™ site assessment solution evaluates network quality and the end-user quality of experience (QoE) for individual client devices on a live network. Obtaining precise comparative metrics early on helps in designing networks, selecting vendors, defining SLAs, and speeding isolation of problems to networks or clients.

NEMs, service providers, and enterprises use IxVeriWave solutions in a variety of phases of product development, network build-out, and live deployment to ensure functionality, compliance, quality, and return on investment:

Chip Developers:

• RF Transmitter, receiver, and baseband verification
• Integrated AP functionality and performance verification

Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs)

• WLAN access points (AP) and controllers, residential gateways, branch office routers, and Ethernet switches
• Wi-Fi-enabled end-user devices
• Competitive benchmarking

Service Providers and Carriers

• Residential broadband gateways or multimedia gateways for deployment in subscribers' homes
• Carrier-class WLAN access points and controllers for servicing hot-spots
• Fully-deployed WLANs under real-world conditions
• Offloading of cellular traffic to Wi-Fi networks

Enterprise IT Departments

• Enterprise-class WLAN infrastructures: access points (APs) and controllers
• Wi-Fi-enabled end-user devices
• Fully-deployed WLANs under real-world conditions
• Site readiness
• Client interoperability
• Network capacity and scalability