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Wi-Fi Alliance defends early certification
News However, the standard will not be finalised by standards body the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) until as late as March 2009, a situation that prompted the Wi-Fi Alliance, which is a collection of wireless equipment...
[June 20, 2007, 12:26]
Cisco develops own Power over Ethernet standard
News Although Cisco is a member of the IEEE's PoE standards group — responsible for a global effort to standardise PoE technology — this development has been undertaken separately. The IEEE is developing a separate high-speed standard called PoE Plus...
[January 23, 2008, 15:23]
Pre-certified 802.11n vendors risk red card
News Due to the potential for customer confusion, the Wi-Fi Alliance strongly discourages use of the term 'IEEE 802.11n' in association with any Wi-Fi CERTIFIED product," said the Alliance in an announcement.
[October 12, 2004, 17:50]
Motorola shuns draft-n Wi-Fi equipment
News Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk at the Wireless Event in London, the company's senior product marketing manager, Angelo Lamme, said that Motorola did not want its customers to buy equipment that could end up incompatible with the final version of the...
[May 25, 2007, 11:55]
Further delays for new Wi-Fi standard
News In January, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) approved a draft version of the standard called 802.11n, after much controversy and infighting among chipmakers. The current draft has generated a lot of comments," said Rolf...
[August 15, 2006, 10:15]
Aruba warns against 802.11n deployments
News Some vendors, such as Motorola, are shying away from supplying 802.11n-based enterprise equipment until its ratification by the IEEE, while Cisco and Colubris have started selling such equipment. Roger Hockaday, Aruba's head of marketing for EMEA...
[October 18, 2007, 10:47]
Users warned against new Wi-Fi gear
News In January, the IEEE approved a draft version of 802.11n, after much controversy and infighting among chipmakers. I've always been a harsh critic of selling equipment that is compliant with a draft," said Craig Mathias, an analyst with Farpoint Group.
[April 25, 2006, 12:45]
Aruba releases 802.11n Wi-Fi kit
News Hockaday defended Aruba's decision to release 802.11n equipment now — in the second generation of 802.11n products rather than the even-faster fourth generation, which should roughly coincide with IEEE standardisation.
[November 5, 2007, 15:08]
Belkin Wireless Pre-N router: a first look review
Reviews This upcoming 108Mbps technology is expected to replace 54Mbps 802.11g as the new high-performance wireless networking standard of choice, but formal IEEE ratification probably won't come until late 2005.
[September 6, 2004, 11:00]
Wi-Fi standards' future mapped out
News In a panel session at the Wi-Fi Planet conference on Wednesday, representatives of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Wi-Fi Alliance laid out broad time tables for the availability of protocols to be used with the...
[December 5, 2003, 7:55]
100Mbps Wi-Fi 'just around the corner'
News We estimate that the IEEE task-group for 802.11n will complete its work in the third quarter of 2005," a Wi-Fi Alliance spokesman said. After the farrago surrounding the 802.11g standard last year -- when certain manufacturers took the questionable...
[March 18, 2004, 14:35]
Dell defends draft Wi-Fi standard
News What is different in this case, he said, is "the stability of the specification [and] the active participation in the IEEE [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers] of a lot of the silicon providers".
[May 31, 2007, 17:05]
Catch the new wave in wireless networking: 802.11n review
Reviews The 802.11n standard is still being ironed out, and the IEEE, or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, doesn't expect to ratify this developing specification until 2006. Scalability and interoperability problems can come back to haunt...
[May 3, 2005, 12:05]
The future of wireless review
Reviews Although the new spec is at least a year from being ratified by the IEEE, some vendors are likely to jump the gun and release products based on an early draft version of the 802.11n spec. Scalability and interoperability problems can come back to...
[March 10, 2004, 6:55]
Cisco launches draft Wi-Fi kit
News Some other manufacturers, notably Motorola, have decided to hold off on the production of business-grade 802.11n equipment until the IEEE has given its official approval. The Wi-Fi Alliance embarked on an early "certification" of the draft standard...
[September 5, 2007, 13:42]
Hotspot providers ignoring 802.11n Wi-Fi
News We think it's a lot of hype.iPass is a company that offers connectivity to business travellers through a variety of options ranging from dial-up to Ethernet, but mainly through its deals with Wi-Fi hotspot aggregators around the world.n is yet to...
[November 2, 2007, 14:42]
Wi-Fi standards face patent claim
News IEEE standards including 802.11a, 802.11g and the proposed standard called 802.11n - which is expected to be ratified in 2007 -all use OFDM to transmit data wirelessly. Most of these products comply with the 802.11a and 802.11g IEEE standard, which...
[November 21, 2006, 7:49]
Pre-standard Wi-Fi products to be certified
News Starting in March, after the IEEE's (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) general membership has accepted the new draft proposal for 802.11n, the Wi-Fi Alliance will begin certifying products.
[August 29, 2006, 16:05]
Report: Wi-Fi to supersede wired Ethernet
News However, the standard's ratification has been a controversial affair, with final approval by the IEEE poised to come as late as 2009. As a result of that delay, the Wi-Fi Alliance began certifying equipment conforming to the draft standard earlier...
[August 29, 2007, 11:33]
Mobile WiMax to hit UK mid-2007
News According to Stephane LeDreau, Nortel's wireless business leader for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the telecommunications equipment manufacturer has an agreement with an unnamed UK provider to use its new MIMO-powered mobile WiMax — also...
[October 12, 2006, 13:05]
