Communication Machinery Corporation Introduces Only Multi-Station Performance and Load Test System for Wi-Fi Protected Access Enterprise and Personal Implementations with Full 802.1x Authentication.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Solidifying its position as the de facto standard for performance testing of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Communication Machinery Corporation (CMC), www.cmc.com, today unveiled its EE-WPA multi-station test system for WPA-Enterprise with full support for 802.1x authentication, RADIUS, EAP-TLS, TKIP, MIC and WPA-Personal pre-shared key mode. A core member of CMC's EmulationEngine(TM) XT family, the EE-WPA is the only system to deliver accurate 802.11 product and wireless network performance and capacity stress testing with multiple WPA-enabled stations and complete 802.1x authentication.

For the first time, with EE-WPA, designers, test managers and network engineers can perform sophisticated capacity, scalability and load stress testing on WPA-enabled enterprise-class products and wireless networks. From 1 to 59 of the EmulationEngine's 64 vSTA can be selectively configured to enable WPA. Only the EE-WPA test system gives engineers the flexibility to individually select the security mode for each of the emulators' virtual stations (vSTA(TM)), providing a truly mixed-mode 802.11 security environment comprising virtually any combination of Open, WEP, WPA-PSK and/or WPA settings.

Using the new EE-WPA, engineers can test critical aspects of WPA-enabled 802.11 product and network design such as AP association capacity while the AP is in WPA mode, WPA security key caching, key exchange and hand-shaking, WPA-PSK or legacy modes, the forwarding rate for WPA versus legacy systems, and the ability of multi-protocol AP's, WLAN Switches and WLAN systems to respond to and scale with multiple stations each with different security modes set. The EmulationEngine provides detailed troubleshooting information, allowing users to test product conformance with 802.1x and WPA specifications. By enabling event logging and using the emulator's collected WPA statistics, the EmulationEngine user gains a vast array of data that can be used to determine which phase of the WPA association lifecycle the system is in, whether any errors occurred with X.509 certificate parsing, or to secure detailed TLS Protocol specific error messages.

The EE-WPA, shipping to customers beginning December 20th, features unique capabilities which extend the level of troubleshooting and error logging data provided by the EmulationEngine family, creating an invaluable tool for analyzing protocol conformance, performance or anomalies. For information: [e-mail], 805-879-1521 or www.cmc.com.