WaveDeploy Product Comparison
| Features | WaveDeploy Basic | WaveDeploy Pro | WaveDeploy Expert | Significance |
| Price | Free |
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| Measurement Capabilities - Per Mobile Device | ||||
| RF parameters |  |
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Identify locations with insufficient RF coverage or high levels of interference |
| Maximum TCP speed | Downstream Only |
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Assess TCP-based application performance (web, e-mail, ERP/CRM) at each location |
| Maximum UDP speed | |
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Assess UDP-based traffic application performance (streaming audio, video, peer-to-peer) at each location | |
| Ecosystem of application traffic | |
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Generate typical traffic levels for most commonly used application types - data, voice, video | |
| Web | |
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| Voice: G.711, G.723, G.729 |
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| Video: MPEG-2 streaming video, YouTube |
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| Roaming | Roaming location by device |
Roaming location by device |
Identify locations of roams between APs for clients reporting RF parameters | |
| Client Capabilities | ||||
| Measurements utilize native mobile device NICs and drivers | |
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Performance is obtained using the NIC, driver and OS the mobile device utilizes in actual operation |
| Maximum number of mobile devices participating in test | 1 |
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Utilize numerous mobile devices in a Single Pass Survey to evaluate interaction between devices and identify poor performing devices |
| Maximum number of ecosystem clients created by WF1101 | 0 |
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256 |
64 ecosystem clients per WF1101. Requires an EF1101 to act as stationary server |
| Client OS / CPU support | Broad support makes it possible to test with a wide range of laptops, handhelds and WiFi-enabled embedded devices | |||
| Windows XP, Vista, 7 / x86 |
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| Windows Mobile 6 / ARM |
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| Linux 2.6 / x86 or ARM |
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| Linux 2.6 / ARM |
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| iPhone / iTouch / iPad | |
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| MAC OS X 10.6 / x86 |
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| Android 2.1 or later / ARM |
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| Generate 64 client eco-system - WF1101 | |
Create a large ecosystem of mobile devices to determine network scaling and interaction with real mobile devices | ||
| Analysis & Reporting | ||||
| Map results against user-defined acceptance criteria | |
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User defined Service Level Agreements are compared to measured performance |
| Quality of Experience HeatWaves | |
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Universal mapping of measurements to user-defined Quality of Experience thresholds (green=good; red=bad) ensures easy interpretation of results for non-techs |
| Aggregate HeatWave maps across measurement dimenstions | |
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Aggregated results provide easy graphical summary of end-user QoE and allow drill-down into details |
| PDF report generation | |
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Automatically generated PDF report offers easy-to-read results and sharing with management or clients | |
| High performance capture - WF1101 | |
Continuously running, test-grade un-filtered capture engine records all data, management and errored 802.11 frames | ||