Highlights

Wi-Fi® is mission-critical in our personal and business lives. The technology is in our homes, offices, hospitals, cafés, and airline flights. Exceptional Wi-Fi is no longer a luxury but a necessity. High-quality Wi-Fi networks are stable, and provide high capacity and performance that exceed our quality of experience (QoE) needs.

Most Wi-Fi networks today only qualify for coverage, with basic element and interoperability testing. However, the assessment for these networks is primarily focused on coverage, with minimal element and interoperability testing. This inadequate test strategy leaves companies vulnerable to business application failures in real-world scenarios. Post-deployment testing is insufficient due to its high costs and the potential for negative feedback.

The Keysight S8715A WLAN Access Point Load Test Toolset helps deliver robust Wi-Fi networks through a comprehensive test approach. This toolset delivers powerful independent Wi-Fi benchmarking, real-world ecosystems, functional, soak, and stability testing for wireless local area networks (WLANs). This process occurs in a controlled, repeatable, automatable, and easily configured environment that provides extensive visibility and debugging of results.

Enterprises, carriers, network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), and chipset manufacturers all have testing roles to ensure world-class delivery and operation. The business benefits of using the S8715A WLAN Access Point Load Test Toolset include faster time to market for products, robust networks, and proactive problem resolution.

Key features:

  • Extensive and comprehensive Wi-Fi access point (AP) testing.
  • Comprehensive, detailed radio frequency (RF) generation and analysis.
  • Advanced 4x4 OFDMA 802.11be technology.
  • Detailed performance metrics to assess the quality of voice, video, unified communications, web, and industry-specific applications.
  • Professional-quality test reports with pass / fail results and advanced result analysis.

Test Wi-Fi 7 Designs with Confidence

In Wi-Fi design, whether for access points (AP) or clients, the optimal testing approach begins with the radio frequency (RF) level and progresses up the protocol stack. Challenges with RF performance affect all higher-level testing. Understanding the specifics of RF operation before determining the consistency of high-level tests is crucial. Learn more about how the Keysight E7515W UXM wireless connectivity test platform can help you test and reliably verify WLAN performance, including Wi-Fi 7.

Discover the latest in Wi-Fi 7 and 5G Testing

This demo video highlights how to measure RF performance in real-world conditions, emulate hundreds of clients, and test 160 MHz Wi-Fi 6E and 320 MHz Wi-Fi 7 channels with 4x4 multiple-input / multiple-output (MIMO). This solution also evaluates the interworking between cellular and Wi-Fi, ensuring comprehensive analysis of power losses, modulation quality, and spectral quality under various conditions like distance and interference.

Optimized Testing of WLAN 802.11ax AP with 1024 QAM in 6 GHz Band

To test mobile phone clients, learn how to emulate a WLAN 802.11ax AP using 1024 QAM in the 6 GHz band. Analyze RF performance with transmitter and receiver measurements, including channel power, occupied bandwidth, spectrum emission mask, power versus time, and error vector magnitude (EVM). Analyze detailed modulation accuracy results, such as frequency error and peak EVM, with cross-correlated EVM demonstrating performance at < -40 dB. Evaluate receiver packet error performance using packet error rate (PER) versus power measurements. The intuitive GUI simplifies Wi-Fi device testing.

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