National Instruments Introduces Test Solution for 802.11ax Wireless

National Instruments (NI), a provider of platform-based systems, has introduced an early-access version of its WLAN Measurement Suite with support for the IEEE 802.11ax wireless draft standard.

According to a company press release, the WLAN Measurement Suite gives researchers, engineers and technologists the power and flexibility to generate and analyze a wide range of 802.11 waveforms, such as 802.11a/b/g/n/j/p/ac/ah/af. Now, with the measurement suite’s latest update targeting 802.11ax, these users can speed up development work on 802.11ax devices. The software supports key features of 802.11ax including narrower subcarrier spacing, 1024-QAM and multi-userorthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). It also includes LabVIEW design software for automating WLAN measurements.

“The fast pace of evolving wireless standards demands instrumentation that can evolve at the speed of software,” said Charles Schroeder, vice president of RF marketing at NI. “Our support for the latest 802.11ax draft standard in the WLAN Measurement Suite is part of the evolution of a platform that scales with changing connectivity standards and provides our customers with superior RF performance in lab and production environments.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.