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Wi-Fi Alliance Liaison Update. Authors:. Date: 2016-11-09. The last WFA member meeting was held in the week of 17 th Oct 2016 in Madrid Spain Recent Items of note On Oct 24 th 2016 Wi-Fi Certified WiGig was announced
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Wi-Fi Alliance Liaison Update Authors: Date: 2016-11-09 Ian Sherlock, Texas Instruments
The last WFA member meeting was held in the week of 17th Oct 2016 in Madrid Spain • Recent Items of note • On Oct 24th 2016 Wi-Fi Certified WiGig was announced • http://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-certified-wigig-brings-multi-gigabit-performance-to-wi-fi-devices • On Sep 21st 2016 Wi-Fi LTE-U coexistence test plan was released • http://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-delivers-lte-u-coexistence-test-plan • Ongoing technical activity at WFA leading to certification, based on IEEE programs • Location • 60GHz, • HaLow • Timing Measurement
Examples of other technical work ongoing in WFA • Neighbor Awareness Networking – low power discovery • Wireless Serial Bus • Display • Security • Device Provisioning Protocol • Application Services • LTE Coexistence • Multiband Operations • Passpoint • IoT Low Power • Examples of WFA Activity in other areas, potentially leading to technical work • Automotive • Ax • Home Experience • IoT
For more information on current areas of work see • http://www.wi-fi.org/who-we-are/current-work-areas • If those sound like interesting topics please plan to attend the next member meeting which is scheduled for the week of 6th Feb 2017 in Sydney, Australia. • Further general information at http://www.wi-fi.org/