QA Cafe News

QA Cafe Annouces CDRouter 4.2 with New XBox Testing

QA Cafe — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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:

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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 -0400

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.

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.

QA Cafe Annouces New Xbox Live Testing Module

QA Cafe — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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.

CradlePoint Uses CDRouter to Stay Ahead of the Competition

QA Cafe — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

CradlePoint, Inc., based in Boise, ID, first found QA Cafe’s website in February 2007 when they requested to download the free demo version of CDRouter, QA Cafe’s flagship testing tool. Over the last six years, CDRouter has become the CPE industry's most valued testing software and is now installed in over 17 different countries.

Shortly after a successful evaluation period, CradlePoint purchased CDRouter from QA Cafe. Today, a year later, the software tool is credited with helping CradlePoint to stay ahead of the competition. Jenny Kniss, Test Engineer, not only used CDRouter to test their own product, but also to test their competitors; “we are able to run comparative testing against our competitor's products to ensure that our level of quality matches or surpasses their products.”

CradlePoint is pleased to be an active customer of QA Cafe’s and has seen much benefit to using the CDRouter test suite as part of their product validation process.

To read the full conversation between QA Cafe and the CradlePoint team, please go to our website at http://www.qacafe.com/static/pdf/cradlepoint.pdf.

About QA Cafe

QA Cafe 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. QA Cafe test suites provide comprehensive verification for wireless, cable, DSL, CPE, and SOHO routers. QA Cafe's flagship product, CDRouter™, is used today by 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.

QA Cafe is a privately held company with headquarters in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

About CradlePoint

CradlePoint engineers and manufactures docking cradles, cellular routers, and software platforms that facilitate secure mobile computing in the Web 2.0 world. From docking cradles for use with handheld terminals to sophisticated mobile enterprise routers, the company leverages telephony, Ethernet, and mobile broadband to make Internet access portable, simple, and robust. CradlePoint’s unique WiPipe™ technology provides access and traffic management to improve the security and quality of the online mobile experience and to support new revenue streams for network providers.

CradlePoint is a privately held company with headquarters in Boise, Idaho.

QA Cafe Annouces CDRouter 4.1 with New IPTV Support

QA Cafe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

QA Cafe is excited to announce a new upgrade to CDRouter, the network industry's leading CPE test solution. CDRouter 4.1 is now available and includes updates to multicast testing, IGMPv3, and IPTV channel change testing. CDRouter 4.1 also includes several new additions and test cases including:

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Updated multicast support and enhancements to the multicast module, including:
- Support for IGMP version 3
- Support for IGMP Fast Leave
- New IPTV channel change tests
- New test cases for IGMPv2 and IGMPv3
IEEE 802.11n wireless adapter support
Increased interoperability with 802.11n CPE devices
Support for Tcl 8.5
URL filter module updates
DNS module updates
New testvars for NTP offset, user defined shutdown scripts, and start timeout

CDRouter TR-069 Add-On

Support for TR-069 Amendment 2 and CWMP version 1.1
TR-104 parameter model updates
SOAP over HTTP encoding enhancements

For more details on CDRouter 4.1, please visit the CDRouter 4.1 Release Notes or login to download the new release.

QA Cafe Adds New CDRouter Application Notes

QA Cafe — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

QA Cafe is excited to annouce a new Application Note section on qacafe.com. This new section features detailed articles on CDRouter testing ranging from practical tips to backup strategies. Each application note presents a concept to help expand the usage of CDRouter beyond simple test runs. Visit the Application Note page now to expand your CDRouter knowledge.

QA Cafe Announces CDRouter 4.0 with Expanded TR-069 Functionality

QA Cafe — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

QA Cafe is excited to announce a major new upgrade to CDRouter, the network industry's leading CPE test solution. CDRouter 4.0 is now available and includes major updates to test cases, new IP protocols, and expanded TR-069 coverage. CDRouter TR-069 users will benefit from the new dynamic CWMP profile system that allows CDRouter to test any CWMP defined profile using the TR-069 protocol. CWMP profiles from TR-098, TR-104, and WT-107 are included automatically and users can create their own CWMP profiles without any programming. CDRouter 4.0 also includes several new additions and test cases including:

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L2TP support for WAN protocol testing
L2TP over IPSEC pass through testing
Additional IPSEC pass through testing with NAT-T
Additional scaling tests for UDP, L2TP/IPSEC, L2TP/IPSEC w/ NAT-T
Performance increases for scaling testing
Fresh BuddyWeb look
Log filtering from BuddyWeb log viewer
Updated configuration file layout

CDRouter TR-069 Add-On

Dynamic CWMP Profile support TR-098, TR-104, and WT-107 (TR-098v2)
User definable CWMP parameters
New TR-069 test cases for dynamic WAN changes
New TR-069 DSL Diagnostic testing

For more details on CDRouter 4.0, please visit the CDRouter 4.0 Release Notes or login to download the new release.

QA Cafe’s Flagship Product, CDRouter, Reaches 5 Year Milestone

QA Cafe — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Portsmouth, NH - In honor of QA Cafe's 5th Anniversary of its first CDRouter customer, the QA Cafe team recently boarded the M/V Thomas Laighton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to celebrate. Since July 2002, QA Cafe's flagship product, CDRouter, has been installed by customers in over 15 countries.

CDRouter 3.8 is Now Available

QA Cafe — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400

QA Cafe is annoucing the general availabilty of CDRouter 3.8. This release adds several new features including:

New DHCP support for DHCP Option 60 (Vendor Specific Option)
New STUN client application test
TR-069 performance improvements for large parameter lists
TR-111 Part 2 support with STUN server
Initial support for TR-104 and WT-135 devices
Support for LAN side TR-069 devices
Updates from 5th DSL Forum TR-069 Plugest

For more details on CDRouter 3.8, please visit the CDRouter 3.8 Release Notes or login to download the new release.

Matthew Langlois Joins the QA Cafe Team

QA Cafe — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Portsmouth, NH - QA Cafe, LLC, the developer and manufacturer of the CDRouter product line, the networking industry's leading test solutions for Cable, DSL, SOHO, and wireless routers, is pleased to announce that Matthew Langlois has joined the QA Cafe team. Mr. Langlois comes to QA Cafe directly from the his position as the DSL Consortium Manager at the University of New Hampshire's InterOperabilty Laboratory. Mr. Langlois brings over 10 years of DSL testing experience to the QA Cafe technical team.

“We are delighted to have Matt on board,” said Deirdre Dufour, Vice President of Operations. "He brings an extremely valuable base of knowledge and experience that will be a strong asset to our organization.” Along with Mr. Langlois’s in-depth industry and testing experience, he has also been a key contributor to the DSL Forum where he previously held the position of vice-chair of the Testing and Interoperability Working Group.

About QA Cafe, LLC

QA Cafe 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. QA Cafe test suites provide comprehensive verification for wireless, cable, DSL, CPE, and SOHO routers. QA Cafe'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.