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Just a little over two months since the WiFi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance made their engagement plans known, the two groups are finally in marital bliss. They’ve long worked together on developing and building the 60GHz wireless standard, but decided it was best to make the partnership official in order to get the most out of their collaboration. Long-term plans include expanding WiGig’s capabilities and implementing a baseline interoperability certification program by early 2014. This united effort could point to quite a growth spurt; ABI Research forecasts that there’ll be annual shipments of 1.8 billion devices with both WiFi and WiGig support by 2016. Though there are no new product announcements at the moment, it looks like the newly unified WiFi Alliance will have plenty to work on over the coming years.

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The WiFi Alliance and Wireless Gigabit Alliance have a pretty long history of working together. The two are ringing in the new year by removing the last barrier to their cooperation and officially becoming one organization. By the end of the year the group hopes to have an interoperability program launched for 60GHz wireless under the banner of the new unified WiFi Alliance. The hope is that joining forces will lead to broader compatibility and quicker adoption of of the high speed wireless standard. For now there’s no new products to announce, but expect a year full exciting wireless developments. For a few more details and some salient quotes from the involved parties, hit up the PR after the break.

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Take note, because there’s a new standard in realm of wireless video streaming and it’s known as Miracast. Since the initial announcement, some very respectable manufacturers have chosen to support the specification, which includes Broadcom, NVIDIA and Texas Instruments. Now the Wi-Fi Alliance has announced the first round of products to be certified for Miracast, and as an extremely welcome bit of news, all Intel WiDi devices are supported by the latest standard. In addition to PCs, you can expect Miracast certification to be blessed upon devices such as smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes and televisions. In the retail setting, all Miracast-certified devices will carry the more generic “WiFi Certified” badge (shown here), which also covers technologies such as WiFi Direct.

You’ll find the press release after the break, which includes the initial list of products and components that’ve already earned their credentials, along with statements of support from manufacturers such as LG, Samsung and Sony. Not to be left out, we also reached out to Qualcomm, which confirmed its support for the standard, along with its expectation to offer some of the very first products certified for Miracast. It seems that Apple’s AirPlay now has some rather determined competition, indeed.

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Wi-Fi Alliance announces first Miracast-certified devices, full compatibility with Intel WiDi originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TI may have blazed the trail, but today NVIDIA has announced that it’ll support Miracast as an integral part of its Tegra mobile platform. If you’ll recall, Miracast is a creation of the Wi-Fi Alliance, which aims to create a new standard for wireless displays by way of a reference specification and certification program. There are few concrete details to share at this point, as the Miracast spec has yet to be ratified, but NVIDIA has already engaged a number of manufacturers in an effort to drum up support for the new standard — think it’s reason enough for the WiDi and AirPlay crowds to worry?

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NVIDIA throws support behind Miracast as wireless display standard originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It was over a year ago now that we heard about the WiFi Alliance‘s intention to certify hotspots and simplify the potential for mobile handovers. Now, it’s just announced hardware testing of its WiFi-CERTIFIED Passpoint program, which promises to let phones and mobile devices automatically discover and connect to compatible networks. The specification used is the result of cooperation between service providers and equipment manufacturers, with the aim of creating an industry-wide solution for shared WiFi access and roaming agreements. Already hardware from the likes of Cisco, Intel, MediaTek and Qualcomm has received Passpoint certification, leaving the ball in the court of service providers, once testing is complete.

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WiFi alliance begins hardware testing on Passpoint cell-to-hotspot roaming program originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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