Isolated WiFi Environments

Abstract: WiFi is becoming common in households and digital devices needs to support it. At the same time the devices are getting smaller and the Ethernet port may seem superfluous. When testing these devices the test environment needs to be able to provide WiFi connectivity. The tests may be focused on testing WiFi but it could also be the only network connectivity and thus needs to be very reliable. With a large number of devices in a small physical area a normal WiFi setup would have a density of devices that is too high for today’s1 WiFi standards. A combination of wired physical medium and physical isolation was considered.