2024 marks the 25th anniversary of #WiFi, and in today's episode of #TheSignalPodcast, we're celebrating this milestone by taking a walk down memory lane with our guest David Coleman, Director of Wireless in the Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks. David tells us about his first experience with Wi-Fi 25 years ago, and how the technology moved swiftly from the warehouse to the consumer. We talk about the early days of Wi-Fi security and encryption and how WPA provided the solution for safe connectivity and boosted consumer confidence. David tells us how the expansion of smartphones and tablets furthered the adoption of Wi-Fi and how #6GHz and #WiFi7 are ushering in a new era of connectivity. Join us as we celebrate our favorite connectivity technology: https://bit.ly/3QMyfLs
Wi-Fi Alliance
Wireless Services
Austin, TX 30,145 followers
Connecting everyone and everything, everywhere
About us
Wi-Fi Alliance® is the worldwide network of companies that brings you Wi-Fi®. Members of our collaboration forum come together from across the Wi-Fi ecosystem with the shared vision to connect everyone and everything, everywhere, while providing the best possible user experience. Since 2000, Wi-Fi Alliance has completed more than 80,000 Wi-Fi certifications. The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ seal of approval designates products with proven interoperability, backward compatibility, and the highest industry-standard security protections in place. Today, Wi-Fi carries more than half of the internet’s traffic in an ever-expanding variety of applications. Wi-Fi Alliance continues to drive the adoption and evolution of Wi-Fi, which billions of people rely on every day. Follow Wi-Fi Alliance: wi-fi.org/beacon facebook.com/wificertified twitter.com/wifialliance linkedin.com/company/wi-fi-alliance WeChat: @WiFiAlliance Listen to The Signal Podcast on your favorite streaming services: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1667952476 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4KSM5OLxyxo96Bz3rEiSrz Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNzQyMDc2LnJzcw== Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/da8808b5-cc08-4a38-b0ff-78fc14b9bcc6 Email us: info@wi-fi.org
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http://wi-fi.org
External link for Wi-Fi Alliance
- Industry
- Wireless Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Austin, TX
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1999
- Specialties
- interoperability certification and Wi-Fi
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10900 Stonelake Blvd
Austin, TX 78759, US
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Updates
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#ICYMI The April edition of the Wi-Fi Alliance Insider newsletter is out! Stay up to date on 25th anniversary of #WiFi celebrations, recent and upcoming Wi-Fi Alliance events, member updates, and more. Read the Wi-Fi Alliance Insider newsletter here: https://bit.ly/3WNly7h
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QuickTrack provides a simpler, cost-optimized option to #WiFiCERTIFIED product certification. Learn how member company Zebra Technologies utilized QuickTrack to meet company goals by speeding up product release cycles. https://bit.ly/4afeMdY
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On today's episode of #TheSignalPodcast, we're continuing our special series, CEO Insights. Wi-Fi Alliance CEO Kevin Robinson and CEO of Pavlov Media Cory Douglas share their thoughts on Wi-Fi innovation, fiber to the home, and more. We talk about the increasing need for reliable high-speed internet access and how OpenWiFi is working to meet that demand. Cory tells us how OpenWiFi complements broadband technologies like FTTH to provide a more comprehensive connectivity solution and shares his predictions for how the connectivity landscape will evolve in the future. Listen to this episode to learn more: https://bit.ly/49Z0vkW
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#WiFiCERTIFIED gives consumers confidence that a product will deliver a good user experience. Discover what path to #WiFi certification is right for you: https://bit.ly/3d3S9kk
Certification | Wi-Fi Alliance
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Standard power #6GHz is pushing forward with strong momentum and the last several months have underscored industry excitement to maximize unlicensed spectrum availability and deliver wireless connectivity to consumers and enterprises. #ICYMI: Here is a snapshot of all that's good in standard power 6 GHz news: - Wi-Fi NOW rounds up some of the latest 6 GHz standard power enterprise solutions: https://bit.ly/3xWQcjU - Member company Extreme Networks announced that it’s the first vendor with outdoor #WiFi6E deployments to receive a standard power grant: https://bit.ly/3Ueouqf - Wi-Fi Alliance enhanced its AFC DUT Compliance Test Plan and AFC DUT Test Harness Tool for 6 GHz standard power devices to comply with the Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada’s Radio Standards Specification RSS-248: https://bit.ly/3w9mA2n - Wi-Fi Alliance Services is supporting industry-leading companies as they prepare to bring standard power 6 GHz products and services to market: https://bit.ly/3Ugg9Tj - Member company RUCKUS Networks and Comsearch, A CommScope Company are part of the #WiFi7 revolution with a Federal Communications Commission certified Wi-Fi 7 solution for 6 GHz Standard Power mode via AFC: https://bit.ly/3JG3dkG - The FCC granted standard-power certification to member company Cisco Wireless' Wi-Fi 6E access points, allowing their customers to take full advantage of the 6 GHz band: https://bit.ly/4bo6xgb - Telecom Infra Project graduated the Open AFC Software Group, which will evolve to become the Open AFC Project led by Broadcom, Cisco, CableLabs, Wi-Fi Alliance Services, and WBA to continue upon its success: https://bit.ly/3TQ6PX9 - Cambium Networks announced that service providers, enterprise, and industrial network operators in Canada will soon be able to deploy greater than 1 Gbps speeds with 6 GHz-ready #WiFi solutions. Discover more here: https://bit.ly/49XgFv6 - The FCC approved Broadcom's geolocation solution using an integrated smartphone app to assist in provisioning the geolocation of a standard power AP: https://bit.ly/4a7VvKK - Qualcomm has been instrumental in advancing the expansion of Wi-Fi in the 6 GHz band in the U.S. and Canada: https://bit.ly/4bnOA0X
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We're thrilled to be continuing Wi-Fi's 25th Anniversary celebration in Austin, Texas, where our Wi-Fi Alliance headquarters calls home. Members attending our Americas Member Meeting from May 21-23 can join us at our #WiFi Beyond Limits social event on May 21st and get a taste for Austin's live music scene. We encourage our members to register for the event and we are looking forward to seeing you all there! 🤠 If you are not a member and would like to learn more about becoming one, visit our website at the link: https://bit.ly/4a7D490
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It is estimated that there will be 27 billion connected #IoT devices deployed by 2025, and a growing number of these devices will connect through #WiFiCERTIFIED HaLow as the protocol gains traction in a variety of settings including home, enterprise, hospitality, factories, farms, and smart cities. Click the link to learn how #WiFi HaLow is expanding IoT connectivity: https://bit.ly/3JLGP9E
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow™: Redefining connectivity for the IoT era | Wi-Fi Alliance
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The key features of #WiFiCERTIFIED7 work together to deliver higher data throughputs and support deterministic latency for sophisticated use cases that demand first-rate reliability. Discover all of the features here: https://bit.ly/3Rde0pU
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 7 | Wi-Fi Alliance
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