NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS 09/23/04 Today's focus: Wi-Fi Alliance certifies for multimedia
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Network World Special Reports on Mobility, IP Telephony Security, the State of Wireless LANs and more are currently available. Download any or all of our Special Reports at: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=81364 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Wi-Fi Alliance certifies for multimedia By Jeff Caruso The Wi-Fi Alliance this month started certifying equipment that goes beyond what you would typically find in a wireless LAN, certifying for a capability known as Wi-Fi Multimedia, or WMM. As WLAN technology, or Wi-Fi, makes its way into consumer devices and phones, QoS issues come to the fore. Real-time voice and video would need to receive a higher priority to ensure that it gets through in a timely manner. WMM is the alliance's interim step to an official standard (apparently the group's not willing to wait). The IEEE is currently working on 802.11e for its standard. The Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit group created to promote WLANs, is obviously hoping to get some level of generally accepted QoS control out into the world as soon as possible. It cites strong industry demand as a driver. The group in a press release named DVD players and televisions as prime candidates for the new technology, saying WMM is "designed to improve the user experience for audio, video and voice applications over a Wi-Fi wireless connection." The certification is for interoperability, and the alliance sees the certification "jumpstarting the coming mainstream adoption of Wi-Fi in the consumer electronics market segment." Already, several vendors have had their products certified by the alliance as compliant with WMM. These include: Atheros Communications' access point and network adapter, Broadcom's reference designs for cards and access points, Cisco's Aironet 1200 Series access point, Conexant Systems' WorldRadio, Instant802 Networks' Gateway 7001 access point, Intel's Pro/Wireless 2915 Network Connection, and Philips' WLAN reference design. There's not a lot of consumer electronics in that list, but presumably that will come. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS IEEE 802.11e Network World Encyclopedia http://www.nwfusion.com/details/6224.html Wi-Fi Multimedia Wi-Fi Alliance http://www.wifialliance.com/OpenSection/wmm.asp _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Jeff Caruso Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World. He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing, and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. 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