Latest Wi-Fi Alliance Stories

AUSTIN, Texas, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced that it will not change the baseline requirements of its 802.11n certification program, and plans to make only small optional additions to coincide with the finalization of the 802.11n standard later this year. The updated test program will preserve interoperability with more than 600 Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 802.11n draft 2.0 products released since June 2007, while adding testing for some optional features now included in the...

PLEASANTON, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Matthew Gast, chief strategist in the office of the Chief Technology Officer, has announced on his blog that the final vote to ratify 802.11n could take place as early as September 11, 2009. It has taken exactly seven years to specify and approve 802.11n. Already, the 802.11 working group is already on the next step. Two task groups (TGac and TGad) are researching and debating methods to create gigabit-capable physical layers.About Matthew...

NEW YORK, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- 'House Beautiful Magazine's Kitchen of the Year' - Toshiba America Consumer Products L.L.C. ("Toshiba"), a market leader in home entertainment products, today announced cutting-edge advancements for today's connected home. Taking photo sharing to new heights, Toshiba's Digital Media Frames deliver real-time information through its partnership with FrameChannel(R), such as personalized weather, traffic, and sports scores as well as music and video to any...

ST LOUIS, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Aclara, a leading supplier of Intelligent Infrastructure(TM) products to electric, water, and gas utilities, is the newest member of the Wi-Fi Alliance(R), a global, non-profit association devoted to the proliferation of interoperable Wi-Fi(R) technology across devices and market segments. Aclara is part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ESE) and the first supplier of utility-specific networks and advanced metering...

PLEASANTON, Calif., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the OpenSEA Alliance announced its 802.1X supplicant has been accepted into the Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) test bed. The acceptance is an important milestone in the development of open security standards for wireless networking and continues the momentum towards OpenSEA's goal of promoting the development and distribution of an open source 802.1X supplicant. With the acceptance of the OpenSEA supplicant, the WPA testbed...

Location-based 'Only Now, Only Here and Only You' Wi-Fi Services Are Among the Innovations Offered to Japanese Broadband Users TOKYO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless(TM) today announced that it has been selected by Wire and Wireless Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based provider of public wireless services, to supply Smart Wi-Fi systems for its new area-specific Wi-Fi "Hot Zone" service called Wi(2)300. Ruckus Wireless is partnering with Mitsui Electronics Inc. to deliver...

With Wi-Fi(R) at the core of the enterprise network, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED security keeps pace with evolving network landscape AUSTIN, Texas, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wi-Fi Alliance(R) has updated its certification program expanding its Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA2(R)) Enterprise security protocol support. The program update increases the number of extensible authentication protocol methods (EAP types) supported in certification testing from five to seven. This expansion ensures that Wi-Fi...

DALLAS, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Critical Watch, the leading provider of security, risk and compliance solutions, today announced that it has been named a '2009 Hot Company,' a recognition honored by Network Products Guide, the world's leading publication on technologies and solutions published from Silicon Valley, California. Many well-known and successful organizations have been born or grown during economic uncertainties. The 2009 Hot Companies continue to be successful because the...

AUSTIN, Texas, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Now that millions of people have experienced what Wi-Fi brings to mobile phones, they overwhelmingly report that Wi-Fi has become a required feature on those devices. A survey conducted by ABI Research found that 77 percent of users of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile phones are completely or very satisfied with their device - a higher rate of satisfaction than that reported by users of mobile phones without Wi-Fi. Seventy-four percent of people who have Wi-Fi on...

Two Opticon mobile computers certified for CCX V4 ORANGEBURG, N.Y., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Opticon Inc. (http://www.opticonusa.com) today announced a strategic alliance with Summit Data Communications, the leading provider of embedded wireless LAN solutions for mobile computers. Opticon mobile computers with Summit Wi-Fi(R) inside have been certified for Version 4 of Cisco Compatible Extensions, or CCX. "Summit designs its embedded Wi-Fi solutions to meet the stringent requirements of...