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WiGig Alliance to Merge with the Wi-Fi Trade Association
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Two wireless trade groups, the Wi-Fi Alliance and the WiGig Alliance have announced plans to merge into a single body, also to be known as the Wi-Fi Alliance.
The two groups said that the agreement builds on more than two years of collaboration between the organizations, in which WiGig Alliance developed technology specifications including MAC-PHY and Protocol Adaptation Layers (PALs) and Wi-Fi Alliance initiated work to develop an interoperability certification for 60 GHz products.
"This is an exciting technology, and has been an important highlight of our certification roadmap for some time, so we are delighted to take this step," said Wi-Fi Alliance president and CEO Edgar Figueroa. "Combining the expertise of Wi-Fi Alliance and WiGig Alliance will deliver a terrific user experience with 60 GHz solutions, and will help ensure that a full range of interoperable WiGig solutions reaches the market as quickly as possible."
Early 60 GHz implementations based on the WiGig specifications are entering the market now and ABI Research forecasts that by 2016, annual shipments of devices with both Wi-Fi and WiGig technology will reach 1.8 billion.
"Consolidating activities with the Wi-Fi Alliance at this juncture will ensure WiGig's mainstream success to the benefit of technology users everywhere," said Dr Ali Sadri, President and Chairman of the WiGig Alliance.
The first Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification program for WiGig products is targeted to launch late this year.
Under the terms of the MOU, the organizations will enter a period of diligence and planning, with the intent to complete transition of both the technology development activity and WiGig assets to Wi-Fi Alliance by the middle of 2013.
Tags: [wi-fi alliance] [wigig alliance]
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