Communication Machinery Corporation's EmulationEngine, EE-SEC, Delivers Uncompromising, Real-time Testing of 802.11i to Ensure WLANs and Wi-Fi Equipment Meet Stringent Robust Security Network Standards.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Communication Machinery Corporation (CMC) today unveiled the EE-SEC, a member of the EmulationEngine(TM) Family that provides support for 802.11i Robust Security Network (RSN) test and analysis for critical aspects of wireless network security under full loads using multiple user-controllable wireless stations. With the EE-SEC, WLAN network and equipment designers can test their features, design topography and design performance in real-world load scenarios to ensure the highest, most reliable performance possible for their security enabled WLAN products in an environment as specified in IEEE 802.11i, 802.1x and 802.11 protocol operation. Using the EE-SEC, enterprises and government network engineers can create custom test scenarios and loads to anticipate and identify performance and capacity problems before full secure wireless system deployment.

Only the EE-SEC includes the robust feature set that gives users the ability to control virtually all aspects of their 802.11i testing. Using the EE-SEC, technicians can configure each of the multiple vSTA(TM) (virtual station) individually and independently to create real-world load scenarios and execute these tests with vSTA operating concurrently with bi-directional traffic and full security handshaking, exactly as if this were a multi-station loading situation deployed in an enterprise setting. This granular station-level control, over security and other parameters, and the EE-SEC's ability to impose this load on the system under test ensures the most stringent standards are designed-in and tested for products and wireless networks -- every time.

The EE-SEC RSN (also referred to as 802.11i and WPA2) support includes correct handling on an individual vSTA basis of the RSN information element in Beacons, Probe Responses, Association Requests, and the AKMP 4-way handshake, and user options for selection of RSN-PSK and RSN authentication types in addition to previous authentication modes. The EE-SEC supports six authentication modes including Open System, Shared Key, WPA-PSK, WPA, RSN-PSK, and RSN.

With the EE-SEC, CMC also has expanded support for the Extended Authentication Protocol (EAP), a protocol supporting multiple authentication methods for WLAN access. New EAP support includes two critical protocols for IEEE 802.1X EAPoL authentication under WPA and RSN, the Protected EAP (PEAP) and the Tunneled TLS (TTLS) authentication algorithms.

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