WLAN Testing Services
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Aricent offers comprehensive WLAN testing services that ensure seamless device performance across various environments and deployments. Their portfolio includes extensive testing capabilities for various 802.11 standards and access points, supported by a state-of-the-art test lab equipped with advanced tools. The services aim to enhance quality, reduce costs, and expedite time to market for device manufacturers, including those in IoT and consumer electronics.
WLAN Testing Services
- 2. WLAN Testing Services WLAN Testing Services RSVP-TE ( / System Validation Roaming – 2.4GHz & 5GHz, dual band Fast BSS transition ( 802.11r) Country-specific regulatory domain (802.11d) BYOD – Generic / Device fingerprinting Traffic Applications – Skype, Lync, FTP, video streaming, Speedflex, iPerf/Jperf Power save testing ( WMM-PS ) QoS testing ( 802.11e ) Point to Point - Wi-Fi Direct , Miracast Introduction Wi-Fi has become the ubiquitous technology to support the Internet of Everything revolution. Long there as technology of choice to support networking in traditional segments such as home and enterprises, Wi-Fi is now increasingly supporting the innovations across varied segments including automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, utilities, IoT and many more. Though Wi-Fi is the key enabler to support networking, it presents with several unique segment-specific deployment challenges. Supporting Wi-Fi in varied environments - home, office, airport, coffee shop and malls - further increases the complexity. Aricent offers comprehensive WLAN/Wi-Fi testing services to ensure that the devices work seamlessly in any kind of deployment. Our WLAN testing offering portfolio - including system validation and test automation framework, along with a state-of-the-art Wi-Fi test lab - helps our clients improve quality, reduce cost and accelerate time to market Aricent offers expertise in testing devices that support various 802.11 standards – 802.11 a/b/g/n/p/ac, 802.11e, 802.11i, 802.11r, 802.11h and 802.11d. Our services can be leveraged to test access points (standalone and controller-based) and devices (mobile, laptops, tablets and custom reference boards). Our system validation services include: Functional testing Feature testing Stress / Stability testing Performance testing Interoperability testing Radio frequency testing Aricent has a ready-to-use repository of 1800+ Wi-Fi test cases that helps our client speed-up the testing process, increase test coverage and enable early detection of bugs. Feature Testing Security ( 802.11i) - WEP40,WEP128, WPA, WPA2, WPA2-TLS, PEAPv0,PEAPv1, EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA Performance using Traffic Chariot – Video , voice, background, best effort Authentication – Personal/Enterprise , 802.1x Hotspot 2.0 / Passpoint Guest access Aricent’s Wi-Fi Test Lab Setup Aricent has a state-of-the-art Wi-Fi testing lab that is equipped with test tools, hardware and software from leading industry vendors, and serves multiple testing, and turnkey Wi-Fi projects. Our lab includes: Performance tools: Ixia Chariot Radius Server: Microsoft IAS server, Free Radius Access Points (consumer and enterprise ) based on - Leading silicon vendors – Qualcomm , Broadcom , Mediatek and Marvell - Supported access points – Aruba , Cisco , Ruckus , D-link , Belkin , Asus , Linksys , Netgear , HP and Engenius Devices: Mobiles, tablets, laptops based on Android, Windows Phone, iOS and MAC OS Controllers: Ruckus, Cisco RSV-TE / Case Studies Aricent’s Wi-Fi Test Lab Set-up Test Bed Stations Test Bed Access Points Stations or AP DUT WSC Automated Station Control USB Connectivity Chariot Server Radius Servers Wi-Fi Network Control Network Test Network 802.11n STA Ralink 802.11abg STA Connexant 802.11n STA Marvel 802.11abg STA Intel 802.11n STA Intel 802.11abg STA Broadcom 802.11n STA Broadcom 802.11n STA Atheros 802.11abg STA Atheros Sniffer 802.11abg AP Gateway 802.11n AP Ralink 802.11abg AP Conexant 802.11n AP Marvell 802.11abg AP Cisco 802.11n AP Cisco 802.11abg AP Broadcom 802.11n AP Broadcom 802.11abg AP Atheros 802.11n AP Atheros Automated Power Control Apple Iphone 6 Samsung Galaxy S5 Sony Experia Z3 Nokia Lumia 1520 Microsoft Surface Tab Device Under Test Ethernet Connectivity Control/Test Automation Controller RF signal generator and analyzer
- 3. WLAN Testing Services Test Automation Framework Case Study Intuitive graphical user interface Supports backend scripting in Perl to interface with infrastructure Runs on Ubuntu Linux platform DUT can be client device or access point Supports android and windows clients Allows automatic report generation in HTML Displays dashboard showing real time status of test execution 8. Edit an existing test suite or create a new test suite 9. Select from available Apps which are then automatically installed on client phones 10. View the generated HTML reports and logs 11. Execute test cases 12. Start a test suite execution Key Benefits Reduces the test cycle time by 30% Runs automated tests on multiple devices in parallel Integrates with third-party test automation frameworks Ability to re-create key customer deployment scenarios in lab and identify key performance indicators (KPIs) Runs on commercial as well as non-commercial devices Portable across different platforms with minimal effort Supports automated tests on Wi-Fi controllers and access points Provides customized test reports Use Cases WLAN infrastructure OEMs, device manufacturers, automobile OEMs, IoT device OEMs , IoT system integrators, service providers, consumer electronics equipment manufacturers (such as wireless speakers, set top boxes, Smart TVs, Wireless appliances) , silicon vendors can leverage Aricent’s WLAN testing services to validate devices and end-products quickly and cost-effectively. Aricent is helping our client — a leading tier 1 WLAN original equipment manufacturer (OEM) — validate multiple releases of the access point product. Aricent was actively involved in setting-up a dedicated lab for the client in a record time. The lab has an up-to-date inventory of over 80 devices including mobile devices, tablets, gaming consoles, printers, smart TV and still growing. Leveraging Aricent’s test automation framework, the client was able to reduce the test cycle time by 30% and also improve the quality of the product and reduce cost. Our team provided the client’s development teams with valuable logs to help them debug issues faster, resulting in significant reduction in the turnaround time to fix critical bugs. Case Study Aricent offers a Wi-Fi test automation framework that helps device manufacturers to reduce time to market and deliver the products to market faster. Our framework also helps reduce test cycle time and costs significantly. The test reports generated through the framework have extensive details to aid the developer in debugging issues GUI Components 1. Test device platform selection – Android, Windows 2. List of connected devices 3. List of available access points 4. Access point configuration settings 5. General application configuration settings 6. Supported test case list based on the platform and access point selected 7. Test suites available – A number of test cases can be added into predefined test suites A regular member of Wi-Fi Alliance® State-of-the-art Wi-Fi lab set-up with all necessary infrastructure to validate real deployment scenarios across Wi-Fi ecosystem Our innovative offering significantly reduce total cost of owner- ship and time to market We have made significant investments in this domain and have significant man years of experience in technologies across the landscape Global delivery model for optimized cost and delivery ( ( Features Why Aricent? Test Automation GUI Sniffers: Omnipeek, Airpcap RF equipment: - N7617B Signal Studio for WLAN, M9381A PXIe Vector Signal Generator, M9391A PXIe Vector Signal Analyzer for compo nent and transmitter test and receiver test - WLAN standards supported - 802.11a/b/g/j/p/n/ac/ draft ah RF isolation enclosures for performance / benchmark testing
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