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WLAN Test

With the NI Wireless LAN (WLAN) Measurement Suite, you can perform common IEEE 802.11a/b/g measurements with industry leading speed and accuracy. Combined with high-performance multicore processors, PXI Express WLAN measurement systems can complete most 802.11 measurements 5x to 10x faster than traditional box instruments. In addition, because PXI Express RF instrumentation is software-defined, you can test multiple standards with the same set of instrumentation. Thus, you can use the same hardware to test DVB-T, GPS, WiMAX, WCDMA, ZigBee, Bluetooth, and many other standards.

Technical Resources

Webcast: Optimizing WLAN Measurements – Five Tips to Improve Measurement Speed

This webcast teaches how measurement settings such as averaging, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols used, measurement span, and CPU affect measurement time.

White Paper: Optimizing WLAN Test Systems for Measurement Speed

This white paper investigates five measurement tradeoffs that you are required to make when testing WLAN devices. It also provides a better understanding of the best practices to use when optimizing a test system for measurement speed.

White Paper: Configuring Software-Defined WLAN Test Systems

This white paper provides an overview of various IEEE 802.11a/b/g physical layers and explains how to use software-defined RF measurement systems to quickly and accurately perform a full suite of WLAN measurements.

Evaluation Software: NI WLAN Measurement Suite

This download is a free evaluation of the NI WLAN Measurement Suite, which includes the NI WLAN Generation Toolkit and the NI WLAN Analysis Toolkit. With these toolkits, in conjunction with PXI RF vector signal generators and analyzers and software such as NI LabVIEW and LabWindows™/CVI , you can quickly and easily test WLAN devices.

Featured Products

Preconfigured WLAN Test System

View a recommended WLAN test system, which features a 6.6 GHz RF vector signal analyzer and a 6.6 GHz RF vector signal generator.

NI WLAN Measurement Suite

See features and specifications for the NI WLAN Measurement Suite, which includes the NI WLAN Generation Toolkit and NI WLAN Analysis Toolkit.

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