• Wireless Analyzer Administrator Guide for Android
Use Cases and Features
Use Cases and Features

Use Cases and Features

Analysis Data provided by Analyzer saves time and costs by enabling administrators and technicians to quickly create action-items from the data on how to improve or mitigate performance issues. Actions may include reconfiguring the RF or WLAN system, reconfiguring the device, or other issues that require attention. The following table describes some of the more common Analyzer use cases.
Use Cases and Analyzer Features
Use Case
Detailed Description
Analyzer Feature
Basic connectivity information
View the status of the connected device, including the connected AP, RSSI, channel, IP/DHCP/DNS, MAC address, and more.
Home screen of the Wireless Analyzer
Wi-Fi surveys and coverage from the connected device view
  • View multiple networks and access points (APs) from locations within radio frequency (RF) range of the device.
  • View connectivity and roam events.
  • Perform an auto reachability test from connected APs to the gateway.
  • Verify the APs over-the-air advertised configuration, retrieved directly from the information elements of the AP’s beacons.
Scan List; Device Coverage View
Wi-Fi Roaming Analysis
  • While roaming, view real-time data about the performance and health of the WLAN, AP-handoffs, and network traffic.
  • View real-time detection of issues, causes, and RF environmental parameters.
  • Can be used in Passive mode without any consumption of resources, or in Active mode with additional synthetic data traffic.
Roaming Analysis
Voice Quality Analysis
  • View real-time data about the performance of voice traffic, combined with Roaming Analysis data of the Roaming Analysis feature (inclusive).
  • In Passive mode - it detects SIP calls in runtime of the Device’s Voice applications (if deployed), and produces periodic quality reports about the voice traffic.
  • In Active mode – it generates synthetic ‘voice’ traffic and produces periodic quality reports about that traffic.
Voice Analysis
Wi-Fi Connection Analysis
On demand inspection and troubleshooting of initial full associations to the SSID and IP network, including causes and reasons of connection failure (if applicable) from each sub-layer of the connection.
Connection Analysis
Packet capture for off-line analysis using a computer
Enabled packet capture to automatically save packets to pcap format. Content includes 802.11-header and radiotap data.
Logging
Troubleshoot and compare Fusion configuration parameters.
  • View and Change the band preference or power save parameters to compare configurations.
  • Test configurations on-site without waiting for a configuration update from a software patch or central staging.
Fusion Advanced Config
Network Reachability and Performance Testing
  • Run one or two independent pings at the same time, each with a separate configuration of the packets and destination.
  • Validate performance and simulate an app's required concurrency of network destinations.
  • Use TraceRoute to display the route (path) and transit delays of packets .
Network Tools > Ping/Trace Route