The Wi-Fi Alliance says products supporting the new standard will refer to it not as 802.11i but as WPA2.
The first Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification program for WiGig products is targeted to launch late this year.
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New security guidelines from the Wi-Fi Alliance could put a stop to riding the wireless networks for free.
The outcome of the Hotspot 2.0 Task Group is the Hotspot 2.0 certification expected in 2012 from the Wi-Fi Alliance.
"The Wi-Fi Alliance's Miracast certification program will allow for easy sharing of video content, regardless of vendor, " said Bart Giordano, Director, Wireless Marketing at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
The Wi-Fi Alliance, a trade organization, today announced that is has adopted new security measures designed to give network owners more control over who can access their networks.
"The new TDLS certification program will improve the user experience with advanced applications such as media streaming, without requiring user intervention, " said Kelly Davis-Felner, marketing director of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Wi-Fi is a registered mark of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
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Consolidation of the activities in Wi-Fi Alliance is intended to bring greater efficiency, ensure closely-harmonized connectivity and application-layer solutions using the technology, and leverage WiGig technology know-how across the range of Wi-Fi technologies.
ENGADGET: WiFi and WiGig Alliances become one, work to promote 60GHz wireless
"This is an exciting technology, and has been an important highlight of our certification roadmap for some time, so we are delighted to take this step, " said Wi-Fi Alliance president and CEO Edgar Figueroa.
ENGADGET: WiFi and WiGig Alliances become one, work to promote 60GHz wireless
"Most of our members do the right thing and come back and certify their products, " said Edgar Figueroa, chief executive of the Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry group made up of hardware makers that sell wireless devices.
Under the terms of the MOU, the organizations will enter a period of diligence and planning, with the intent to complete transition of both the technology development activity and WiGig assets to Wi-Fi Alliance by the middle of 2013.
ENGADGET: WiFi and WiGig Alliances become one, work to promote 60GHz wireless
"As a Wi-Fi market leader, Broadcom is honored to be one of the primary certification solutions for the Wi- Fi Alliance MiracastTM program and is committed to driving new Wi-Fi standards, " said Dino Bekis, Senior Director, Wireless Connectivity Combo Group at Broadcom.
The agreement builds on more than two years of collaboration between the organizations, in which WiGig Alliance developed the groundbreaking WiGig technology specifications including MAC-PHY and Protocol Adaptation Layers (PALs) and Wi-Fi Alliance initiated work to develop an interoperability certification for 60GHz products.
ENGADGET: WiFi and WiGig Alliances become one, work to promote 60GHz wireless
But before that approval, the Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry consortium that promotes Wi-Fi technology, previously adopted most of the features already assumed to be part of the 802.11i standard and built them into a temporary set of enhancements that it called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) which is available on most newer Wi-Fi access points.
Wi-Fi's ability to move bits through the air has soared since the alliance formed in 1999.
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