CDRouter Training Series

Webinars

Testing a Wifi Range Extender or Wifi Mesh System

Devices that enhance consumer Wifi are becoming more and more prevalent, both off the shelf and deployed by service providers. A Wifi booster or Wifi range extender is sometimes a simple repeater, but more often they act as layer 2 bridges, and can still be tested for performance and management via TR-069 or SNMP.

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Webinar - Build and deploy safer products with new methods of security testing

Security testing can be easy with the right tools! With an increase in cybercriminals targeting home/SOHO gateways and Wi-Fi APs, testing has never been more important. In this webinar, you’ll learn how monitoring the behavior of a device under test, by analyzing its live network traffic can help uncover issues that may not come to light with regular penetration testing.

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Webinar - Testing DOCSIS eRouters and Cable Modems in CDRouter

CDRouter can automate an entire DOCSIS provisioning system. Focus on testing your cable modem and eRouter in a single test environment that can test every aspect of your devices from management to routing to performance.

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Qualifying network devices multi-client simulation and throughput testing

As more and more network-capable devices are added to home and business networks, enterprise edge routers, home gateways, and access points need to be pushed to the limits and tested in ways that simulate real-world connection scenarios. In this video, you’ll learn how automated performance testing can be sourced through multiple, virtualized clients - simulating real line-rate throughput and exercising your device’s functions and features in a complex environment.

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How to secure the connected home - a special live session with F-Secure and QA Cafe

Hackers have identified subscriber home networks as rich targets for malicious attacks. As a result, broadband service providers are looking at security in the CPE to protect their subscribers, network, and brand, and Wi-Fi router manufacturers want to differentiate their products with advanced security features.

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Webinar - Testing Apple HomeKit-enabled routers for Pre-Certification

Apple HomeKit technology is being added to more and more smart home devices every day. Apple HomeKit-enabled routers are the key to an interoperable and secure user experience using this powerful solution.

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Qualifying your devices for Q-in-Q performance, TR-069 Amendment 6, and more

This webinar includes an overview of how to test a number of protocols and features with recent versions of CDRouter

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Testing Hurdles of Wi-Fi APs and Wi-Fi Mesh Nodes

The rapid expansion of Wi-Fi as the medium of choice for home networking has introduced an explosion of new products from both new and established manufacturers.

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How do you test TR-069 enabled devices?

If you’re developing a device or deployment that uses the CPE WAN Management Protocol (TR-069), like managed Wi-Fi or other services, what should you test for? What are the benefits of automating it with a dedicated test platform? What are the benefits of getting certified or asking your vendors to certify?

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Automating your test environment with the CDRouter web API

Though CDRouter contains thousands of test cases, much of its power comes from being a fully capable automation platform for your entire test process. In addition to automating CDRouter test cases, you can use the CDRouter API to connect with your continuous integration, external test tools, or other applications to make your testing even easier.

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Increasing your DOCSIS testing output

DOCSIS test setups have many different parts that all must be configured, maintained, and interoperable in order to reliably test Cable Modems, eRouters, and more.

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Automated home gateway security testing

It’s no question now - malicious attackers are targeting the home network, and the gateway in particular. Testing for security vulnerabilities can be tedious and ineffective if you don’t have a controlled, repeatable, and fully automated test environment.

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Testing TR-069 Devices in CDRouter 10

As the official test platform for TR-069 certification, CDRouter’s TR-069 add-on turns CDRouter into a scriptable ACS simulator with test cases for protocol functionality, data model validation, and security.

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Webinar - SNMP Scenario Testing

CDRouter has the ability to build custom “scenario” tests to exercise the behavior of a DUT’s SNMP stack and MIB. Similar to our TR-069 scenarios test cases, this allows you to set up tests that perform SNMP get requests, set requests, etc.

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Webinar - CDRouter 10 Basics

Have you just started using CDRouter as a new customer or demo user, or want to know some immediate tips and tricks you can use to get testing quickly?

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Leveraging the BBF.069 CPE Certification Program Using CDRouter

The Broadband Forum BBF.069 CPE Certification program is the industry standard for qualifying products for use in TR-069 deployments, and is critical for ensuring that your products or service deployments will operate well.

Videos

Data Model Parameters

Most objects contain a set of elements containing sub-objects and parameters. Parameters are defined using the parameter element, and, like Objects, have a set of attributes and elements that describe how the parameter is to be used and its requirements.

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Looking at Data Models and Objects

Every data model in TR-069 contains the objects and parameters that represent the functions of a broadband CPE or other device. This includes their addressable name, syntax, data types, and a normative description of how they are to be used.

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Navigating Broadband Forum Data Models

Intrinsic to the operation of CWMP are the objects and parameters made available to an ACS by a CWMP endpoint. These maps of a CPE’s capabilities and state are referred to as “data models”.

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Reboot and FactoryReset

The Reboot RPC is used by the ACS to explicitly cause the device hardware to restart. This could be for any number of reasons, though should never be used as a means to force the CPE to upgrade itself.

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Upgrading CPE Firmware with the Download and TransferComplete RPCs

Perhaps the biggest use case for TR-069 is managing a CPE’s firmware, allowing service providers to remotely upgrade their install base without needing to send the firmware to the customer or send an engineer.

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Get/Set Parameter Values and the Status argument

The fundamental purpose of TR-069 is to allow an ACS to interact with the CPE’s instantiated data model, that is, the representation of its current state. The RPCs that form the basis of this include the Get and Set Parameter Values methods.

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Session Retry Mechanism

Every TR-069 session is initiated by a CWMP endpoint that is looking to deliver an event. These events have different delivery requirements, using language such as “must not discard”, “must retry until reboot”, “may retry” and “must not retry”.

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Notifications

In TR-069, the 4 Value Change event code is used when a parameter set for notification is changed by any mechanism other than the ACS. These conditions are set using the SetParameterAttributes RPC.

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XMPP Connection Request Mechanism

There’s one caveat to ConnectionRequests - they require that the CPE can be reached by the ACS over HTTP. For endpoints that may reside behind a Gateway, this is not the case, thanks to Network Address Translation or Firewall rules.

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Connection Request Basics

Though every TR-069 session is initiated by the CPE endpoint, sometimes it’s necessary for the ACS to request that the CPE contact it immediately. To do this, TR-069 defines a Connection Request mechanism in CWMP, which allows the ACS to stimulate the CPE to begin a session.

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ACS Discovery

In TR-069, the CPE is always initiates a session. When making first contact with an ACS, how does it know the ACS URL it is supposed to contact?

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Event Basics

Every TR-069 session is initiated by a CWMP Endpoint on a CPE. These sessions always occur for a specific reason, called an “Event”. All of the Events that have yet to be delivered to the ACS are contained as arguments in the Inform RPC at the start of every TR-069 session.

Videos, Webinars

Beyond the Phy - Testing Fully-Featured Wi-Fi Products

As new 802.11 technologies address coverage and congestion issues, Wi-Fi routers and APs must support a web of configuration and feature options while handling complex applications and networking technologies. Testing and validation of performance, stability, and interoperability are critically important for the success of your products and services.

Articles, Webinars

Improving TR-069 and USP Interoperability Through Certification

The widely deployed TR-069 protocol and its successor, the User Services Platform (TR-369) are complex and powerful technologies that have successfully brought real value to operators, application vendors, and CE manufacturers. The key to that success is the standardization that can be tested and validated through certification programs.

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QA Cafe and RDK-B testing on the RDK Podcast

The QA Cafe team works closely with the RDK community to validate the open-source RDK-B solution. Our CTO Tim Winters got a chance to sit down with Jamie Walker from the RDK Podcast to talk about testing, automation, standards, and how CDRouter helps RDK-B implementations stay robust and interoperable! Watch it here.

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Making the Internet Safer: How and Why We Use Suricata to Analyze Network Traffic and Test Network Devices

Whether you are a network product developer, network operator/ISP, or on a network/security operations team, learning about open-source Intrusion Detection System platforms like Suricata will help you! Watch our video to learn what it is how we use it in our products at QA Cafe.

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How and why to test your CPE with CDRouter - with Steen Enevoldsen

Steen Enevoldsen is an industry veteran who has worked for both vendors and operators worldwide. He's also a CDRouter power-user! Watch this video where he explores how to get the most out of test tools like CDRouter and how to justify the purchase to your company.

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Using CI/CD Tools in Broadband and Wi-Fi Product Development

Watch this special video with QA Cafe's Senior Developer and API Master, Niels Widger, to learn how to incorporate feature, security, and performance testing into your CI/CD process!

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Building a Test Package

Brad demonstrates how to select tests, schedule, and launch a test package.

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Viewing and Analyzing Results

Brad demonstrates what the next steps are once your tests are complete, how to visualize results, and how to restart tests.

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Analyzing Test Log Information

Brad shows you how to get insights into your test failures from test logs and packet captures, plus how to export and share results.

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Using the CDRouter API with a CI/CD environment

Niels demonstrates how to use the cdrouter.py scripts with your CI/CD pipeline.

Configuring and Analyzing Performance Tests

Brad demonstrates how to set up performance testing using the CDRouter Performance Add-On Expansion.

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Basic configuration for TR-069 testing

Brad shows you how to set up a CDRouter config file for TR-069 testing and how to configure your Device Under Test to connect with CDRouter's ACS.

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TR-069 test module overview

Brad gives an overview of the test packages you can build when performing TR-069 testing.

Running CDRouter through an access concentrator or shared test setup

Brad demonstrates how to set up automated CPE testing when using a GPON OLT, DOCSIS CMTS, or an Amarisoft LTE Callbox.

Webinars

Video: Testing Broadband Forum TR-181 Data Models for TR-069 and USP

Articles

Test case and automation recipe for stability testing in CDRouter

What are the key tests you should run, and in what combination, for a good stability/stress test process? Here are our recommendations when performing this kind of testing with CDRouter.

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Testing stability in parallel with your complete test strategy

In this article with a helpful infographic, we discuss how to incorporate stability testing with your feature validation, performance, and regression testing and how to leverage CDRouter's parallel testing capabilities to streamline the process.

Videos

What to do with your stability test results

In this video, Matt summarizes what to do once you’ve got some stability test results: what to look for, how to find it, and what to do next to help improve your products.

Articles

Review: Our Stability Testing Series

Here's the full set of articles in our series on stability testing. Regardless of your experience level, these articles will serve as useful guides in your testing process!