WaveDeploy Pro
WaveDeploy Pro is the ultimate site assessment and readiness solution for IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n networks. It provides deep insight into the behavior of live networks in minimal time and is the only solution that lets IT Managers and Solution Providers see exactly what their users see/experience, WaveDeploy Pro is the only way to recreate live conditions and test to scale, as well as "what if/worst case" scenarios as the network evolves. WaveDeploy Pro assesses the readiness of both the wireless network infrastructure and specific client devices allowing users to separate network issues from client issues. It delivers true end-user Quality of Experience (QoE) measurements based on the behavior of user-defined client devices.
Features
- HeatWaves provided for every participating device
- Multi-client TCP upstream / downstream goodput
- Single client UDP upstream / downstream maximum forwarding rate
- Single client TCP upstream / downstream maximum goodput
- Voice MOS upstream / downstream
- Voice loss upstream / downstream
- Video MDI
- Video jitter
- Video loss
- RF-signal strength
- Co-channel interference
- Client roaming time
- Automatically generated report reveals network compliance, client observed QoE and network QoE
- Summary HeatWave provides quick test overview and clearly identifies problem causes (such as long latency)
- Fast Single Pass Site Survey collects and presents all measurements in a single sweep of the area surveyed providing a complete picture of network readiness
- Conduct readiness surveys using a wide range of WLAN client devices (such as laptops, smart-phones, and even bar-code scanners), all at the same time
- Supports up to 10 participating client devices
- Works with any network adapter
- Uses actual traffic for measurements – not just PHY rate & Ping
- Assess true measured voice quality at any given location without the need to use actual VoIP handsets
- Conduct AP and infrastructure vendor selection harnessing the same metrics provided by VeriWave’s lab tools, the gold standard for WiFi performance testing
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WaveDeploy Components
- The WaveDeploy application resides on a laptop
- Test data is collected by one or many Mobile WaveAgents residing on WLAN client devices such as laptops, smart-phones, and application specific devices (patient monitors, scanners, etc.). The laptop used to run WaveDeploy is one of these client devices
- The test-grade WF1101 traffic generator / analyzer loads the network to real-world conditions by creating up to 64 independent WLAN clients
- Mobile WaveAgents communicate with a Fixed WaveAgents residing in the data-center, NOC, the demarcation between wireless and wired networks, or anywhere in the WAN
- Fixed WaveAgents can be hosted on an off-the-shelf server or on a dedicated EF1101 test-grade traffic generator / analyzer
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Dynamic Network Testing Using WaveAgent
WaveAgent is a small (less than 200Kbyte) powerful traffic generation and collection utility that easily fits onto a wide variety of devices, including memory and CPU resource-constrained handheld devices. Testing mobile device behavior in the target environment is critical to accurately predicting customer satisfaction upon deployment. By enabling WaveAgent on the client device, device-specific behavior such as when to roam and how to rate adjust, can be assessed and its affect on overall network performance measured.
WaveAgent has a much more powerful set of data generation capabilities and richer statistics collections than shareware tools. This facilitates the generation of advanced traffic types such as QoS-enabled audio and video across a broad range of devices, and uniquely enables the collection of QoE metrics on these flows such as voice Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and video Media Delivery Index (MDI).
Supported Operating Systems
- Windows 7 Professional
- Windows Vista Business / Ultimate (SP1)
- Windows XP Professional (SP3) with .Net framework V3.5
- Windows Mobile 6 or Higher
- Linux Kernel 2.6 or Higher (x86 or ARM)
- MAC OS X 10.6
- iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, iPod touch (download from the app store or iTunes
- Support is limited to 32 bit operating systems
- Contact VeriWave for other operating systems