Wi-Fi Test Solutions
Comprehensive suites of Wi-Fi performance test cases
Performance Test Packs deliver automated, end-to-end performance testing and validation for Wi-Fi devices, helping manufacturers stay ahead in an increasingly connected world. As next-generation wireless technologies rapidly evolve, ensuring exceptional performance and rock-solid reliability of client devices is no longer optional—it’s a competitive advantage. These powerful automation packages provide a structured, repeatable, and highly scalable framework to rigorously evaluate Wi-Fi station performance across real-world conditions, accelerating time-to-market while maintaining confidence in quality.
The TR-398 WiFi Performance test plan by the Broadband forum provides a comprehensive set of tests to qualify the performance of WiFi access points (APs) to be deployed in residential and small office indoor environments.
The TR-398 Issue 4 will include TR-398 Issue 3 features as well as WiFi-7 support. The TR398 test cases allows customization of test execution and pass/fail metrics to allow interested users to run advanced tests not specified in TR398.
Testing a multi-node WiFi mesh network can be very complex. Fortunately, the ATxTel's WiFi mesh test solution packages a number of integrated building blocks and offers a comprehensive, highly repeatable, controllable and automatable mesh testbed in a compact and highly affordable form factor.
Using the Wi-Fi mesh test system, customers can create an entire home network in the lab. The chambers emulate rooms and mobile station locations and Wi-Fi emulators in each chamber emulate fixed devices (TVs, laptops, phones). The control software and test packs allow quick and powerful graphical control of the chambers to emulate physical distance and mobility. Many tests can be automated, substantially decreasing test time and increasing test coverage.
The Wi-Fi/Cellular Test Pack combines cellular and Wi-Fi test equipment to provide a testbed capable of testing APs that support cellular backhaul and User Endpoints (UEs) that support cellular data connectivity. This testbed is useful for several tasks, including:
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Helping identify RF interference between Wi-Fi and cellular equipment.
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Testing failover between cellular and local network connectivity.
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Testing data throughput.
This test solution is tailored for service providers who are developing Wi-Fi-enabled Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). Manufacturers can utilize this solution to test CPE equipment during the development phase and to validate access points (APs) in a laboratory setting prior to deployment.
Wi-Fi 6E is an extension of the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard. It enables the unlicensed 6 GHz frequency band to be utilized. Wi-Fi 6E extends all the Wi-Fi 6 features and capabilities into the 6 GHz band, thereby enhancing efficiency, throughput, and security. With Wi-Fi 6E, a total of 1200 MHz spectrum is available, which facilitates increased capacity, wider channels, and reduced interference.
WiFi 7 builds upon the features of WiFi 6 and introduces several novel features. The 6 GHz band now supports up to 320 MHz wide bandwidths, and MCS encoding rates are increased to MCS-13. Consequently, even a 2x2 device can achieve an on-air encoding rate close to 5 Gbps, resulting in a total data throughput in the 4 Gbps range. New features such as Multi-Link Operation (MLO) should enable WiFi devices to take advantage of multiple bands concurrently, allowing high throughput when close to the AP on the 6 GHz band but also enabling sustained connectivity far from the AP on the 2.4 GHz band.
The Wi-Fi performance characterization test pack offers a fully automated Wi-Fi test suite as part of the fully automated testbed. It allows a baseline performance characterization of the latest Wi-Fi devices. The test pack includes throughput
benchmark, client capacity, RvRvO, band steering, and other features.