IxVeriWave—Chassis and Accessories

World’s Most Complete Wi-Fi Test System

Keysight offers the world’s most complete Wi-Fi test equipment, including chassis, automation appliances, cables, and radio frequency (RF) connection equipment that allow the setup of isolated, stable, and repeatable test beds. Keysight Chassis are designed to house all IxVeriWave WaveBlades and provides line-rate backplane connection and ventilation and cooling for the blades. The Chassis come rack mountable. Keysight’s WaveChambers provide excellent RF characteristics with a high degree of isolation, in a compact form factor that is easily portable and yet extremely functional. With optional turntables, the solution can also be extended to test and improve device performance at different antenna orientations.

IxVeriWave Chassis

For professional Wi-Fi testing, industrial-quality equipment is required. The IxVeriWave two-slot WT22 and nine-slot WT93 chassis power WaveBlades to produce extensive Wi-Fi benchmarking, extreme loading, and broad traffic mixes. Real-world testing requires reliable equipment that can scale to reflect today’s Wi-Fi network use. IxVeriWave Chassis and WaveBlade solutions provide up to 500 concurrent Wi-Fi client simulations to test extensively Wi-Fi Networks.

Key Features

o Automation—10x More Efficient

   • Hundreds of tests run unattended  

   • Uninterrupted operation for extended periods of time

   • Complete control over large-scale deployment scenarios

o Cost of Ownership Minimized

   • Test time reduced from days to minutes

   • Test coverage increased

   • Bugs revealed early in the QA cycle

o Repeatability = Confidence

  • Get to the root cause and solve problems faster

  • Avoid pitfalls when testing with off-the-shelf clients o Goes Beyond Conformance and Interoperability

  • Scales to thousands of stateful and independent clients

  • Quantifies real-world deployment scenarios

  • Stress tests complete wireless LAN (WLAN) networks

Automation Test Appliance

The ATA100 Automation Test Appliance offer users the ability to access and control high-scale WaveTest systems through user-written scripts. An optional command line interface (CLI) mode is also available for script development and limited manual testing. The appliances enable large-scale and long-term testing scenarios requiring clients and flows that connect and reconnect automatically and persistently.

Key features

• Ability to run long, scaled, control-plane soak and system stress tests

• IxVeriWave test systems integrate into users’ own test automation framework using a welldocumented and common API

• Test time reduced greatly by avoiding the need to bind test ports, create/associate clients, start flows, then tear it all down prior to the next test case

• CLI used to create test cases before they are automated and to build test scripts around the IxVeriWave API

• Functional sanity test suites target specific controller/access point (AP) features

• Powerful appliance offers automation of large number of IxVeriWave test ports and devices under test (DUTs)

• Changes to IxVeriWave-created client behavior made on the fly while tests are running

• The ATA100 exposes the IxVeriWave-generated client behavior in a controlled and portable fashion by allowing the user to reserve ports, set channels, scan for APs, capture packets, create/destroy clients, set security modes and MAC/PHY options, send/receive arbitrary frames, set up traffic flows (stateful/stateless), roam clients, create and handle groups of clients and flows, and read back port/client/flow statistics

• The system creates persistent clients and adapts to changes advertised by the system under test (SUT), essential for large-scale tests and long-term soak tests

• ATA100 offer a highly interactive script or CLI that allows the user to connect via Telnet or standard sockets interface