Wi-Fi Certified N product testing begins; new logo unveiled

Andrew Nusca | Oct 05, 2009

The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun product testing for its Wi-Fi Certified N program, updating its two-year-old 802.11n draft 2.0 program. Along with it comes a colorful new logo, taglines and labeling info.

The updated program adds testing for some popular optional features now more widely available in Wi-Fi equipment.

Those include:

Test support for simultaneous transmission of up to three spatial streams

Packet aggregation (A-MPDU), to make data transfers more efficient

Space-time Block Coding (STBC), a multiple-antenna encoding technique to improve reliability in some environments

Channel coexistence measures for "good neighbor" behavior when using 40MHz operation in the 2.4GHz band

Along with canning the word "draft", devices can now be designated "Wi-Fi CERTIFIED dual-stream n" or "Wi-Fi CERTIFIED multi-stream n" to indicate that they have passed tests for specific performance-enhancing features.

Here's who gets the shiny new accreditation first:

Atheros XSPAN Dual-band 2.4/5GHz PCIe MiniCard for Computing Designs, Full MIMO Configuration

Atheros XSPAN Dual-band, Dual-concurrent 2.4/5GHz, Gigabit Reference Platform for AP/Routers, Full MIMO configuration

Broadcom Intensifi Dual-Band 802.11n Client Reference Design

Broadcom Intensifi XLR Dual-Band 802.11n Router Reference Design

Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300

Marvell SmartTM Wi-Fi 802.11n 3×3 450 Mbps Dual-Band Access Point

Ralink 3×3 AP

Via ZDNET blogs

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