Case Study: Leading Wireless Services Provider achieves faster, repeatable gateway qualification and improved QoE with Keysight

Evaluating Wireless Broadband Gateways for Deployment by Service Provider Customers

Leading Wireless Services Provider needed to qualify wireless broadband gateways (WBS) from competing suppliers to ensure high-quality home Wi‑Fi and support value-added voice and video services. To create repeatable, real-world RF and application-layer tests and to automate firmware regression testing, the provider used Keysight’s IxVeriWave / WaveTest Wi‑Fi Traffic Generator/Analyzer system.

Keysight’s test solution executed packet throughput, latency, WiMix Enterprise and TCP goodput tests across multiple frame sizes and traffic mixes, revealing both WBS options required significant QoE improvements — for example, Vendor A allowed ~51% of the intended load but forwarded only ~32% successfully, while Vendor B allowed ~44% and forwarded ~26% — and many flows failed SLA targets. The Keysight system also cut test cycle time from 4–6 weeks to about 1–2 weeks, increasing productivity, reducing support costs, and accelerating time-to-market.