WaveBlade Traffic Generation and Analysis (TGA) Modules

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1 WaveBlade Traffic Generatin and Analysis (TGA) Mdules Highlights Up t 500 fully independent stateful clients per prt WaveBlade Wi-Fi (WBW): Highly scaled setup in a single test-bed t test real-wrld deplyment levels f cntrllers, APs, and clients IxVeriWave s WaveBlade series prvides a state-f-the-art, industry-first test slutin fr evaluating the functinality and perfrmance f Ethernet and IEEE based WLAN netwrking prducts. Designed fr testing netwrk infrastructure devices including cnsumer access pints (AP) and reference designs, enterprise/carrier grade access pints and cntrllers, and entire Wireless LAN (WLAN) netwrks, WaveBlades integrate bth traffic generatin/analysis and multi-path channel emulatin capabilities n a single platfrm. WaveBlade Wi-Fi (WBW) mdules include: The WBW2000/2600 generating traffic frm hundreds f independent stateful clients, making it easy t determine the effects f cmplex MIMO prpagatin n n access pint and cntrller perfrmance by subjecting each individual client t any f the IEEE-defined channel emulatin mdels The WBW1104N generating mre than 500 Mbps f traffic frm 2000 fully stateful clients per blade t enable cst-effective, feature-rich functinal and perfrmance testing f n cntrllers The WBW1001P, a single-prt, high-pwer mdule suitable fr pen air testing Ethernet Server WaveBlades prvide a cmplete Layer 2-7 test mdule used t evaluate the functinality and perfrmance f Ethernet-based netwrking prducts. Designed fr testing netwrk infrastructure devices such as access pints, bradband hme gateways, cntrllers, switches, and ruters WaveBlade Ethernet (WBE) mdules integrate traffic generatin and analysis capabilities n a single platfrm. Each Ethernet WaveBlade prt generates fully interleaved, multi-prtcl IP traffic frm hundreds f independent Ethernet clients r servers at wire-speed. Ease-f-use thrugh simplified setup including single-click selectin f desired channel mdel Built-in channel mdels help determine realwrld perfrmance in six typical WLAN multi-path scenaris WaveBlade Ethernet (WBE): Generates wire-speed stateful TCP traffic Cmplete cntrl ver MAC and IP addressing scheme Wire-speed flw generatin Real-time statistics t track mre than 130,000 traffic flws Industry-best packet capture Ease-f-use thrugh simplified setup Agura Rad Calabasas, CA USA Tel Dcument N.: Rev D July Page 1

2 WaveBlade Wi-Fi a/b/g/n and Ethernet line-cards fit int IxVeriWave s WT90 and WT20 chassis and interwrk seamlessly with ne anther t prvide cmplete functinal and large-scale testing. Mdules prvide the essential tls necessary t cmplete varius types f testing ranging frm functinal testing at the AP level t scale testing a large n infrastructure netwrk. Figure 1: Typical lab test setup using WBW1104 Figure 2: Open-air field test using WBW1101P Page 2

3 Figure 3: WaveBlade Ethernet Key Features WaveBlade Wi-Fi (WBF): Up t 500 fully independent, stateful clients per prt enable precise measurement f critical perfrmance metrics at data rates reaching up t maximum theretical limits Highly scaled setup in a single test-bed t test real-wrld deplyment levels f cntrllers, APs, and clients Ease-f-use thrugh simplified setup including single-click selectin f desired channel mdel t be used n clients in a wide-array f IxVeriWave Test Suites Built-in channel mdels help determine real-wrld perfrmance in six typical WLAN multipath scenaris, per recmmendatins f IEEE n task grup (WBW2000/2600 nly) Full supprt f IEEE a/b/g/n traffic generatin and analysis simplified setup in a wide array f IxVeriWave Test Suites, applicatins, and WaveAutmatin Page 3

4 WaveBlade Ethernet (WBE) Up t 500 fully independent Ethernet clients /subscribers r servers per prt enable precise measurement f critical perfrmance metrics at data rates reaching up t 1 Gbps Capable f generating wire-speed stateful TCP traffic and ther traffic including raw Ethernet frames, UDP, RTP etc. Cmplete cntrl ver MAC and IP address scheme including autmatic addressing and incremental addressing per user-defined step sizes Wire-speed interleaved flw generatin with unique ID, rate, timestamps, sequence numbers, data integrity signature, and flw grup identifiers Real-time statistics t track up t 131,072 traffic flws and 16 user custmizable latency histgram buckets Industry-best simultaneus bi-directinal (TX/RX) wire-speed packet capture supprt f up t 256MB n each prt Ease-f-use thrugh simplified set-up in a wide-array f IxVeriWave Test Suites and WaveAutmatin Specificatins WBW 3601 WBW 3602 WBW1601 WBW1601P WBW1101* WBW1101P* WBW2600 WBW2000* WBW1604N WBW1104N* WBE 1601 WE 1101* WBE 1604 WBE 1104* Number f prts 1 r 2 1 x a/b/g/n prt Maximum number f prts per chassis 1 x a/b/g/n prt 4 individual and independent a/b/g/n prts supprting multi-user and multi-test beds r Number f interleaved flws (per WaveBlade) 1000 r Page 4

5 Cnnectr type RJ45 Ethernet PHY type 10/100/1000 Mbps MIMO cnfiguratin U pt 4x4 MIMO ac Single spatial stream per prt Supprt fr 2x2, 2x3, 3x3 with spatial multiplexing Single spatial stream per prt PLCP mde Legacy, Mixed-mde Operating frequency 2.4 GHz, 4.9 GHz and 5 GHz IEEE channel mdels Guard interval selectin (per client cntrl) Mdel A typical hme/small ffice envirnment Mdel B typical medium ffice envirnment Mdel C typical large ffice envirnment Mdel D typical pen space envirnment Mdel E typical large pen space envirnment Mdel F cmplex envirnment with many scatters By-pass mde t nt impse any channel cnditins 800 / 400 ns Spatial streams (NSS) 1 t t 3 1 PHY rates 6.5 Mbps t Mbps (MCS index 0 t 9) 6.5 Mbps t Mbps (MCS Index 0 t 7) 6.5 Mbps t 450 Mbps (MCS Index 0 t 23) 6.5 Mbps t Mbps (MCS Index 0 t 7) FEC cding rates 1/1, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6 Channel bandwidth 20 MHz, 40 MHz, 80 MHz 20 MHz, 40 MHz Legacy PHY rates 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 Mbps Aggregatin types Tx and Rx: A-MPDU and Blck-Ack Rx nly: A-MSDU Page 5

6 Transmit pwer cntrl -50 dbm t +14 steps --50 dbm t 0 steps ((WBW 1101) -50 dbm t 0 steps -50 dbm t 0 steps 0 dbm t +15 steps ((WBW 1101P, 1601P) Transmit pwer accuracy +/-1.0 db (Typical) Transmit capability Wire-speed hardware frame generatin with timestamps, sequence numbers, data integrity signature, and flw grup Identifiers Optinal in-path attenuatin Receive Sensitivity -79dBm min fr BPSK -54dBm fr 256-QAM 20 db (WBW1101) N (WBW 1101P, 1601P) 20 db 20 db -82 dbm min fr 8x10-2 FER (1Mbps CCK) 65 DBm min fr 10x10x2 PER (64-QAM 5/6)) Receive capability Wire-speed frame filtering, data integrity, and sequence checking, capture, real-time latency measurement n each flw Operatin Channels Antenna interface cnnectr cnfiguratins t GHz: 1 t t GHz: 21, t GHz: 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, t GHz: 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 136, t GHz: 149, 153, 157, 161, cnnectrs 1 cnnectr 3 cnnectrs 1 cnnectr per prt 4 ttal per blade Antenna interface cnnectrs Traffic timestamp SMA female cnnectr, standard thread AC cupled, 50 Ohms 50ns Page 6

7 accuracy Maximum number f stateful clients per prt Maximum number f traffic flws generated per prt Maximum number f traffic flws analyzed per prt per prt 2,000 ttal per Wave- Blade 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 per prt 4,000 ttal per Wave- Blade 131, , , ,000 per prt per prt 2,000 ttal per Wave- Blade MAC cntrl (all parameters) Independent per client 524,000 ttal per WaveBlade 802.1x authenticatin supprt PEAP/MSCHAPv2, TLS, LEAP/EAP-FAST, TTLS Encryptin supprt WEP-40 and WEP-104, TKIP (WPA), AES-CCMP (WPA2) OSI layer 3 and layer 4 (IP, UDP, TCP, etc.) cntrl (all parameters) Independent per client Prt cunters Client cntrl Flw and flwgrup unters Capture buffer (per prt) Cmprehensive set f layer 2, 3 and 4 frame types Cntrl frames, management frames, actin frames Frames sent / received, bytes sent / received, ut-f-rder frames, paylad integrity, latency histgram 256 MB User defined field mdifier (per flw) Frame length cntrl Increment r decrement by user-defined step; up t 256 bytes frm start f frame Fixed, increment by userdefined step r autmatic Page 7

8 Statistics and rate cunters Flw analysis Time-stamp accuracy Link State, Line Speed, Frames Sent, Signature Valid Frames Received, Signature Errr Frames Received, Bytes Sent/Received, Fragments Received, Undersize, Oversize, VLAN Tagged Frames, Per User Pririty QS cunters, FCS errrs, Bad Sequence Errrs, Bad Paylad Checksum, ARP, DHCP and Ping requests and replies, IP/ICMP/UDP/TCP checksum errrs, IP Multicast packets, Sent/Received IP Packets Real-time statistics t track up t 131,072 flws 50 ns reslutin IPv4, UDP, TCP Hardware checksum generatin IPv6 (available n WBW1601, WBW1601P, WBW2600, WBW1604N, WBE1601, WBE1604) NDP: Neighbr/ruter discvery and address assignment ICMPv6 & DHCPv6 Multicast Listener Discver (MLDv1. MLDv2) Dual stack peratin f bth IPv4 and IPv6 UDP, RTP, stateful TCP, and multicast flws Max f 32 IPv6 addresses per client: One Link-lcal, up t 31 Glbal *IPv4 nly Calibratin IxVeriWave chassis and management mdules d nt require peridic adjustment r calibratin. Similarly, WBW mdules are calibrated at the factry and maintain advertised specificatins withut requiring additinal calibratin. Page 8

9 Minimum Requirements IxVeriWave Test System Hst Cmputer 1 x IxVeriWave WaveTest 90 r WaveTest 20 system x86-based PC with 1 GHz prcessr and 256 MB RAM Windws XP SP2, r Linux (2.6 r higher kernel level) with Web Brwser installed t manage the WaveBlade Ordering Infrmatin IxVeriWave WBW (WaveBlade Wi-Fi) a/b/g/n Multi-client Traffic Generatr/Perfrmance Analyzer fr wireless IEEE a/b/g/n netwrks; lw-pwer SISO single prt; includes Standard Accessry Package A; IPv6-capable IxVeriWave WBE (WaveBlade Ethernet) 1601 Multi-client Traffic Generatr / Perfrmance Analyzer fr 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet netwrks; IPv6-capable This material is fr infrmatinal purpses nly and subject t change withut ntice. It describes Ixia's present plans t develp and make available t its custmers certain prducts, features, and functinality. Ixia is nly bligated t prvide thse deliverables specifically included in a written agreement between Ixia and the custmer. Page 9