These are some of the typiccal field systems in the healthcare WLAN environment today.

• Devices go off line at unexepected times
• Standing in one location, the application performance of the device inexplicably degrades without any apparent change in the environment.
• The inability of a patient monitor in a room across the aisle from an AP simple cannot connect.
• Wireless voice over IP phone drops calls while roaming between AP, disrupting conversations between on the move doctors and nurses.

What are the resulting business issues?

• Mission critical device failure represents a potential risk to present and future business.
• Support staff and developers earn a lot of frequent flier miles flying back and forth to the customer site.

Typical testing methodologies

Use real devices to create the environment, however this does not scale, it is difficult to control, difficult to collect results, limited visibility into co-existence, difficult to create multiple end-user environments, and is hard to measure the impact of DUT on the devices.

The solution is the WaveClient by Veriwave.

The Waveclient creattes an ecosystem that generates clients representing other devices in the network, i.e. phones, laptops, scanncer, makes copies of the DUT, and allows for a variety of ecosystems.� It provides client statistics and client reporting traffic and generates solid evidence of how the wireless ecosystem impacts DUT's performance. www.veriwave.com