QA Cafe News

QA Cafe releases CDRouter 6.1 just in time for the holidays

QA Cafe — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

QA Cafe is excited to announce a new upgrade to CDRouter, the network industry's leading CPE test solution. CDRouter 6.1 is now available and adds support for new Denial of Service tests, WAN side IPv6, and DHCPv6.

CDRouter 6.1 also includes several new additions and test cases in the following areas:

CDRouter and CDRouter-Multiport

New test Denial-of-Service test cases in the dos.tcl test module
New test case in the basic.tcl test module for MAC verification
New test cases in pppoe-c.tcl test module for Relay-Session-Id tag
New test cases in the pppoe-c.tcl, pppoa-c.tcl, l2tp-c.tcl, pptp-c.tcl, and pppt1-c.tcl test module for LCP Magic Number verification
BuddyWeb enhancements including new command line tool

CDRouter IPv6 add-on

Support for DHCPv6 on the LAN
Support for static IPv6 on the WAN
Support for user-defined DHCPv6 options
New test cases in the ndp.tcl test module for verification of the M and A bits in Router Advertisements

For more details on CDRouter 6.1, please visit the CDRouter 6.1 Release Notes or login to download the new release.

QA Cafe announces IPv6 support for CDRouter™ test solution

QA Cafe — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

QA Cafe has announced the availability of a new IPv6 based add-on module for CDRouter™. The new add-on module, CDRouter IPv6, provides testing of IPv6 enabled CPE devices and covers a range of IPv6 technologies including router discovery, neighbor discovery, auto-configuration, and 6to4 tunneling.

"While the exact road to commercial IPv6 is still unfolding, our customers have been asking for IPv6 support and we have responded with CDRouter IPv6. We are excited to bring new IPv6 testing capabilities to the marketplace to help speed up the adoption of IPv6 in residential networks," stated Joe McEachern, Product Manager at QA Cafe.

For more details on CDRouter IPv6, please visit the CDRouter IPv6 page or login to download the new release.

About QA Cafe, LLC

QA Cafe, a privately held company headquartered in Portsmouth, NH, is a leading provider of IP testing solutions that allow telecom and datacom developers and test engineers to quickly and reliably test crucial IP functionality. Its test suites provide comprehensive verification for wireless, cable, DSL, CPE, and SOHO routers. The company’s flagship product, CDRouter™, is used today by most of the major manufacturers of routers and CPE devices in the Far East, North America, Europe and Asia. CDRouter offers testing of PPPoE, DHCP, NAT, SIP, IKE, 802.1x, TR-069 and over 50 different IP protocols.

UNH-IOL Launches TR-069 Consortium

QA Cafe — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Launches functionality testing of CWMP enabled products using QA Cafe's CDRouter technology

DURHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has opened the doors to its TR-069 Consortium, a group formed to provide testing for and promote the interoperability of products that support Broadband Forum TR-069, which defines the CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP).

“Our members have expressed great need for neutral, third-party verification of their CWMP implementations for both CPE and ACS vendors,” said Jason Walls, Senior Technologist at the UNH-IOL. “The consortium will allow us to provide that testing as well as serve as a central location for resolving TR-069 interoperability problems.”

The consortium will begin offering functionality testing immediately, utilizing CDRouter technology running on QA Cafe's NTA1000 test appliance. The UNH-IOL’s custom test scripts will exercise the implementation of TR-069 on enabled CPE, including use of remote procedure calls, notifications, and data model specific functionality.

"QA Cafe is happy to partner with the UNH-IOL to provide CDRouter technology for the consortium’s TR-069 functional test suite. The new test suite is a great example of the type of test development that is possible with CDRouter. This will be a great addition to the TR-069 test community," stated Joe McEachern, Product Manager at QA Cafe.

The TR-069 Consortium will follow the collaborative testing model that has made other technology consortiums at the UNH-IOL successful in promoting technology adoption and product interoperability on over twenty data communications and storage technologies.

About the UNH-IOL

Founded in 1988, the UNH-IOL is one of the networking industry’s premier third-party proving grounds for developing technologies. Approximately 200 companies use the UNH-IOL's 32,000+ sq. foot facility to extend their development and quality assurance efforts by testing and fine-tuning technologies, protocols and products for multi-vendor interoperability and conformance to standards. For more information, visit http://www.iol.unh.edu.

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QA Cafe Reaches CDRouter 5.0 Milestone

QA Cafe — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

QA Cafe has reached another milestone with the 5.0 release of CDRouter™, the network industry's leading CPE test solution. CDRouter 5.0 is now available with a brand new web interface, revamped test management, 64-bit Linux support, new TR-069 data models, and support for QA Cafe's new NTA1000 test appliance.

"The CDRouter 5.0 release really wraps up a number of important projects for us. We have completely redeveloped CDRouter's web interface to provide a backend database capable of scaling to millions of test case results. This makes it possible to look at device behavior over long durations that span weeks and months and still have the tools to provide meaningful results," stated Joe McEachern, Product Manager at QA Cafe.

"We are also releasing a new 64-bit version of CDRouter that runs natively on 64-bit Linux systems. For the evolving TR-069 protocol, we are releasing a new TR-069 EDM add-on that includes support for several new data models including Femtocell and Storage devices."

"And finally," summarizes McEachern, "CDRouter is now available as a turnkey solution with our NTA1000 test appliance."

For more details on CDRouter 5.0, please visit the CDRouter 5.0 Release Notes or login to download the new release.

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CDRouter Adds New TR-069 Data Models for Femtocell and Storage Devices

QA Cafe — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

CDRouter™ 5.0 adds new data models based on TR-140 (Storage) and TR-196 (Femtocell)

Portsmouth, NH - QA Cafe, LLC, creators of industry-leading testing solutions for CPE routers and devices, today announced that CDRouter 5.0 contains support for several new TR-069 based data models.

“The CWMP protocol (TR-069) is now being used to manage several new types of devices and services. The use of TR-069 has expanded beyond the traditional CPE access device," said Joe McEachern, Product Manager at QA Cafe.

The new data models are part of QA Cafe's TR-069 EDM add-on that can be bundled with CDRouter TR-069. The following data models are included in the TR-069 EDM add-on:

TR-104: Provisioning Parameters for VoIP CPE
TR-135: Data Model for TR-069 Enabled STB
TR-140: Data Model for Storage Service Enabled Devices
TR-143: Data Model for Network Throughput Performance Tests and Statistical Monitoring
TR-157: Data Model for Component Objects
TR-196: Data Model for Femto Access Point Service

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QA Cafe Launches Network Test Appliance for Fast CDRouter Deployment

QA Cafe — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

New NTA1000 from QA Cafe Simplifies Deployment of CDRouter™

Portsmouth, NH - QA Cafe, LLC, creators of industry-leading testing solutions for CPE routers and devices, today announced that it is introducing the NTA1000 for CDRouter. The NTA1000 is a turn-key hardware solution shipped with CDRouter pre-installed and ready for deployment.

“Many of our customers have been asking for a simple way to deploy CDRouter without having to purchase their own hardware. Our new NTA1000 platform makes it easy to start using CDRouter on qualified hardware," said Joe McEachern, Product Manager at QA Cafe.

The NTA1000 is a compact, high-performance, fully integrated solution pre-qualified and optimized for use with CDRouter. The NTA1000 incorporates six on-board Gigabit Ethernet network interfaces and an integrated 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless LAN interface in a compact 1U form factor. The NTA1000 supports all CDRouter add-ons including CDRouter-Multiport, CDRouter TR-069, and CDRouter-IKE.

Availability

The NTA1000 is available now pre-installed with CDRouter 5.0. Please contact sales@qacafe.com for details.

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QA Cafe starts 2009 with new CDRouter 4.3 release

QA Cafe — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

QA Cafe is excited to announce a new upgrade to CDRouter, the network industry's leading CPE test solution. CDRouter 4.3 is now available and adds support for static NAT, improved wireless support, and a new automatic test retry feature.

CDRouter 4.3 also includes several new additions and test cases in the following areas:

CDRouter and CDRouter-Multiport

Static NAT support and test module (Application Note on static NAT)
New NAT TCP Window Scale Option test case
Automatic retry testing (Application Note on automatic retry testing)
Support for multiple wireless modes on a single SSID
Automatic wireless reconnection for madwifi driver and other specific drivers
New template keywords for log files and log directories

CDRouter TR-069 Add-On

New test cases based on PD-128 Version 9
Profile updates for TR-098 Amendment 2 and TR-106 Amendment 2

For more details on CDRouter 4.3, please visit the CDRouter 4.3 Release Notes or login to download the new release.

QA Cafe Annouces CDRouter 4.2 with New XBox Testing

QA Cafe — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

QA Cafe is excited to announce a new upgrade to CDRouter, the network industry's leading CPE test solution. CDRouter 4.2 is now available and includes a new Xbox Live test module and new TR-069 updates.

CDRouter 4.2 also includes several new additions and test cases including:

CDRouter and CDRouter Multiport

New Xbox Live test module (Xbox application note)
Additional STUN and DNS test cases
Improved NTP configuration to start NTP server at a specific time
MSS Clamping is now configurable in both directions
DNS lookup timeout is now configurable
New SCRIPT_exec command for running external scripts

CDRouter TR-069 Add-On

New TR-111 Part 2 test module
New AddObject/DeleteObject testing for defined CWMP Profiles
Updated XML parser for faster processing of large data models
Support for Upload RPC for Vendor Config Files and Vendor Log Files
Additional configuration options

For more details on CDRouter 4.2, please visit the CDRouter 4.2 Release Notes or login to download the new release.

QA Cafe Launches “Profiles In Quality” Series

QA Cafe — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Case Studies Highlights Use of CDRouter™ to Explore Best Testing Practices

Portsmouth, NH - QA Cafe, LLC, creators of industry-leading testing solutions for CPE routers and devices, today announced that it is introducing a series of case studies designed to highlight best testing practices for networking companies. The Profiles in Quality series is a collaboration between QA Cafe and select customers of its CDRouter™ testing suite.

The case studies give an overview of the customers’s testing environment and what they consider important to ensuring the quality of their products. To help illustrate their approach to testing, the profiles explore how each company uses CDRouter as part of their quality review.

“The best networking companies are committed to quality testing because they know that if their products are unreliable, customers will look to someone else,” said Joe McEachern, Product Manager at QA Cafe. “We realized that, because of our relationships with many of these companies, we’re in a unique position to talk with their test engineers and get them to share some of their insights.”

The first two Profiles in Quality are now posted on QA Cafe’s Web site (http://www.qacafe.com/show/profiles). The first case study features chipset manufacturer Ubicom®, Inc. of Sunnyvale, CA, whose processor technologies were recently at the heart of five Innovations Award Honorees at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The second profile is of Boise’s CradlePoint, Inc., which engineers and manufactures docking cradles, cellular routers, and software platforms that facilitate secure mobile computing in the Web 2.0 world.

McEachern notes that additional CDRouter customers have been polled and several all along the networking supply chain have been invited to participate in the Profiles in Quality series. As other companies are featured, they will be added to the collection of case studies on qacafe.com.

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QA Cafe Annouces New Xbox Live Testing Module

QA Cafe — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

QA Cafe has announced a new Xbox Live Testing module that will be included in CDRouter 4.2 scheduled to be releases this fall 2008. The new module provides new functional tests to help ensure that devices are compatible with Microsoft's Xbox Live.

For most QA Cafe customers, CDRouter is used on a daily basis as part of a regression testing strategy. Incorporation of Xbox Live testing into CDRouter allows detection of Xbox Live compatibility issues early in the test cycle and reduces the risk that a device will not be certified as Xbox Live compatible by Microsoft.

The CDRouter test suite from QA Cafe is a comprehensive functional test suite for CPE routers and devices. CDRouter is currently in use at over 100 different locations around the globe involved in various aspects of building, testing, and deploying CPE router devices including chip companies, OEMs, retail companies, and ISPs. QA Cafe’s customer list covers most of the major CPE vendors with large deployments in the United States and worldwide including Linksys, D-Link, Westell, Siemens, Actiontec, 2Wire, and Motorola.

More details on the Xbox Live test module can be found in QA Cafe's application note on Xbox testing.