SCENARIO
Once used mainly for low-priority data, today’s Wi-Fi networks carry real-time, multimedia traffic in consumer, service provider, industrial, hospital, and enterprise network environments worldwide. Mobile clients continue to grow in number and complexity of application usage.
With Wi-Fi evolving from “nice to have” to a primary network medium, poor performance now places brand reputation, profitability models, customer satisfaction, and even lives at risk. Today’s wireless LANs (WLANs), WiFi-enabled devices, and mobile applications must deliver unprecedented quality, reliability, and security—without fail—to mitigate these risks and fully leverage mobility. Wi-Fi needs to become “carrier grade.”
Each critical component of the dynamic WLAN ecosystem must be tested, assessed, and optimized throughout the product or service lifecycle:
• Enterprise and service provider APs
• WLAN controllers
• Wi-Fi-enabled client devices (laptops, smartphones, printers, scanners, healthcare monitors, etc.)
• Live deployed WLANs and future upgrades
Assessments should begin by obtaining baseline performance measurements and then progress to load testing to simulate realistic live network environments. The quality of the user experience should be measured in metrics relevant to each individual application—voice, data, video, etc.—in the presence of diverse client and traffic mixes.
IXIA SOLUTIONS
The industry’s premier Wi-Fi test solution, Ixia’s IxVeriWave represents the gold standard in evaluating Wi-Fi performance and site readiness. The world’s leading WLAN infrastructure and mobile device manufacturers, service providers, system integrators, and enterprises use IxVeriWave to measure and optimize performance, reliability, and scalability throughout the product/service lifecycle.
Employing a client-centric, user-focused model, IxVeriWave delivers:
• Proactive problem resolution by using integrated capture and extensions to rapidly identify and isolate issues.
• Automation that enables the creation of thousands of test cases while speeding test cycles and reducing cost.
• World-leading L1-7 Wi-Fi testing backed by Ixia’s 15 years of experience in Wi-Fi test and measurement.
• Ability to generate thousands of clients and traffic flows used to test specific features, such as QoS, power save, and roaming.
• Test-grade repeatability, so you get the same result each time you run the test by eliminating the variability due to clients and environment.
• Testing with hundreds of clients without the need for hundreds of laptops using IxVeriWave’s support for 500 clients per port.
• High performance of 3.6 Gbps per port, so clients can achieve full theoretical rate.
