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.

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Lou Anne Brossman, marketing director for Juniper's U.S. public sector business, claims her company has taken a lead in getting the government up to speed on hot-button topics like Internet Protocol Version Six, or upgrading networks to the next generation of specifications governing how to send data over the Internet.

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In theory the UltraViolet concept has always been a solution to the problem for digital ownership of high value content however, when requiring so many different industries to support and agree on all aspects of the specifications of such a program, it can often feel like getting nations to agree on the Kyoto Protocol.

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