New Generation of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac Satisfies Your Appetite for Network

Wi-FI Alliance® (WFA) has again created another milestone with the launch of the brand new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac Certification Program. Products that pass Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac Certification Program would be able to transmit data with speed over 1 Gbps, have up to 160 MHz channel bandwidth and also support Multi-user MIMO and 256 QAM Modulation. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac would benefit users with advanced user experience and high-quality multimedia streaming service, improving the quality of networking in family, business and various other living environments.

Developed by the IEEE Standards Association process, IEEE 802.11ac provides stable high-throughput mainly on 5 GHz band, which is able to reduce interference efficiently. In order to optimize network connectivity and offer the fastest service, it is expected that Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac product will adopt dual band mode in the future, which allows product to function simultaneously under both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency band. Thus, many major Wi-Fi chipset providers are launching 5 GHz/2.4 GHz dual band solution one after another, which is considered good news for user and the whole market to create a high-quality Wi-Fi environment. ABI Research predicts that shipments of dual-band Wi-Fi chipsets–including both Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ n and Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac–will exceed 1.5 billion by the end of 2014. Therefore, the interoperability and the stability of transmitting/receiving data between these two chipsets is extraordinarily important, which would influence consumer’s purchase intention.

Compared to the legacy generation of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ n, which only provides up to 4 spatial streams, 802.11ac has more than double the freedom of channel usability, offering up to 8 spatial streams which would further improve the efficiency and quality of wireless communication system. Meanwhile, 802.11ac provides higher‐order modulation–up to 256 Qam, enhancing the advanced ability of signal processing and anti-noise efficiency.

EEE 802.11ac not only improves transmission efficiency, but also makes a breakthrough on Multi-user MIMO. Multiple input/output antennas are able to expand the channel usage ratio of MIMO, a technology that allows Access Point (AP) to transmit and receive independent data streams simultaneously to several Wireless Stations (STA) while every STA can receive up to 4 sets of data streams at the same time. In order to downsize the capacity of mobile devices, traditional end products are designed with only one set of Wi-Fi antenna, causing the issue of Internet resource competing and affecting the quality and efficiency of Internet connectivity. However, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac supports multiple antennas and reinforces the efficiency of bandwidth as a whole, solving the problem of jammed channel between devices and providing users with higher definition videos or music streams with better quality.

MacBook Air Supports Wi-Fi 802.11ac

According to the Wi-Fi Certification Team’s point of view from Allion Labs, Inc. (Allion), mobile devices passing Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac Certification Program such as notebooks, tablets, consumer electronics products, and network equipments are going to be in the market soon since the time for Wi-Fi 802.11ac era has arrived. And the need for Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac products will definitely be growing up. For this reason, developers and manufacturers need multi-angle Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac Certification Program more than ever. With Allion’scomprehensive services for 802.11 certification program and technical consultation, we are able to satisfy company’s various needs for certification, effectively saving client’s budget and cost of time.

Recently Allion has become the first-wave Authorized Test Laboratory (ATL) for Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac Certification Program. As an ATL recognized by WFA for so many years, Allion has the state-of-the-art testing environments and senior expert teams specialized in wireless technical domain. We will keep pace with the market trend and provide you the latest information regarding WFA and other critical information, having you enjoy the techniques of Wi-Fi perfectly. For further information please check http://www.allion.com/wi_fi.html. If you need a prompt response regarding this Wi-Fi certification program, please contact service@allion.com.

SSD Performance Test: Thorough Disclosure of 11 Well-Known SSDs

Since the need of thin and light laptops such as Ultrabooks, Ultrathin Notebooks and portable devices has been growing, Solid State Drive (SSD) has become the mainstream storage media for tablets, and also the standard storage alternative for high-level notebooks, as a replacement for Hard Disk Drive. The great amount of implementation hence increases SSD’s annual growth rate as a whole. With the prevailing trend of thin and light design and the decent of SSD’s unit price, consumers have shown higher interests in SSD than before. IHS iSuppli even predicts that there would be more than 227 million shipment volume of SSD in 2017.

The New Era of Unlimited Battery Charging Technology: Allion Wired & Wireless Charging Test & Evaluation Report

With the evolution and spread of portable electronic devices such as up-to-date smartphones, Tablet PCs and digital cameras, the high energy usage and charging requirement are predicable and trying to be optimized through all of them. Whether you are using a wired USB interface-based universal charging solution, or adopting the increasing and developing wireless charging and inductive power solution, that allows your device be fully charged with efficiency and lower the power consumption will become the most important and considerable indicator of researching, designing and purchasing the related charging technologies for various kinds of vendors.

Intel Speeds Thunderbolt Interface with High-Speed Transmission Technology and Solution

Intel announced the initial Thunderbolt technology which was the so-called “Light Peak” at the 2009 Intel Developer Forum; however, the Thunderbolt technology was commercially and greatly introduced on Apple’s MacBook Pro series in 2011. In fact, the Thunderbolt technology had not completely hit the market before because of its system specification, cable costs and the lack of relevant peripheral product development support. In 2013; based on the concept of Intel’s Ultrabook, the PC end products have been gradually developed with the thin system design and the growth of multimedia video/audio transmission requirements.

Wireless Charging Powers Up Unlimited Future

Picture: How Nokia Lumia 920 Charges Wirelessly

You may have this experience: when you want to charge your cameras, mobile phones or tablets, you cannot only tell many different kinds of chargers apart but find out that they all tangle with each other. These black dusty chargers look similar and haven’t been changed a lot for a long time, which have become the subordinate role. In recent years, aside from the hardware and software progression of electronic devices itself, manufacturers have noticed the details of accessories thus improved bulky chargers and annoying power supply cords. Finally, users can dispose disorderly devices because the remarkable advance of wireless charging technology does help users to have better product usability and user experience.

When Tele-Vision Becomes Inter-Vision: Smart TV Test Report

No More Couch Potato

Now we can say that the future Internet technology and application will move toward the development of mobile entertainment devices and home entertainment devices. In “Mobile” oriented, mobile entertainment devices such as smartphone and tablet PC have significantly and successfully caused the big bang explosion in market; in “Home” oriented, lean-back media such as smart TV, connected TV and set-top box invade our living room gradually, and then users just sit down and veg out watching TV and browsing Internet. That is, the user scenario of TV is no longer passively receiving information, but users are able to take the initiate to select, browse and operate various TV applications and services.

Throw the Power Cord Away – USB Power Delivery Breaks the Limitation

Due to its easy usability, convenient size and reasonable cost, USB is one of the most ubiquitous transmission interfaces in modern life. No matter at home or in office, people rely on USB to transmit data for TVs, notebooks, smart phones, tablets, desktops, printers or even In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) System in cars all the time.

ENERGY STAR® Program Ensures Better Energy Efficiency for IT Products

As the leading program of energy efficiency certification, ENERGY STAR® Program is an international standard for energy efficient consumer products. The program is created in 1992 by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) helping us with reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gases caused by power plants through energy efficient products and practices.

SLOC™ Seamlessly Streams Digital Networked IP Surveillance

According to In-Stat’s report in 2011, the revenue of networked IP surveillance market will reach more than 15 billions in 2014 and the market will turn to IP and High Definition (HD) equipments soon. In the past, digital IP video might encounter transmission delay caused by network bandwidth, temporary storage from video decoder and other reasons, and the use of CCTV coaxial cables also has lots of restrictions for application. However, the key point of networked IP surveillance market’s growth is a solution of reducing transmission delay while based on existing CCTV coaxial cable infrastructure. Therefore, high-performance analog and power management semiconductors company, Intersil Corporation launched Security Link Over Coax (SLOC™) solution to overcome the restrictions.