Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Wireless Revolution: Introducing Intel My WiFi Technology


By 2012, In-Stat estimates a whopping 1 billion new devices will ship with Wi-Fi. In the near future, products like printers, smart-phones, digital cameras, personal media players, digital photo frames, game consoles, even televisions, DVD players and speakers will include Wi-Fi. Have you thought about how to integrate or fully utilize your Wi-Fi function? Or what are the best ways to synch, share, show, and print the digital content among different Wi-Fi embedded devices?

Intel has a solution. Intel® My WiFi technology can resolve the problem. Intel® My WiFi Technology is a Wi-Fi Personal Area Network (Wi-Fi PAN) technology that allows a single Wi-Fi adapter in an Intel® Centrino® 2 notebook to function like two separate adapters. The operating system sees two Wi-Fi interfaces and each interface offers a service. One interface can connect to any standard Wi-Fi certified Access Point (AP). The other interface enables a Wi-Fi PAN that can operate concurrently with the Wi-Fi Local Area Network (Wi-Fi LAN) connection. CE devices with embedded Wi-Fi see this Wi-Fi PAN network as just another Wi-Fi network to which they can associate.

You can say that this is a second revolution in wireless technology. Making connections among all your WiFi embaded device will no longer be a hassle. Intel has released the application on their web site for user download and experience.
This software works on Intel® Centrino® 2 system. It only supports Windows Vista and Windows 7 OS.

Finally, Intel has also started to provide “My WiFi” Logo Certification Service to various Wi-Fi embedded products. For question or if you need more detailed information, please write to us at
service@allion.com

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For those of you new to device testing, here’s a look into product testing at a third party testing facility.
Device testing ensures the quality and interoperability of a product. In order for devices to achieve certification from a company or standards organization, the device must pass compliance tests, which ensure it will work properly with other certified products.
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After a device reaches all benchmarks and passes all checkpoints, certification can be established. Working with a trusted test lab throughout product development ensures quality testing and moves the product along through the development cycle.