WiMedia Alliance Event To Hone Interoperability Testing For UWB Certification

San Ramon, CA -- The WiMedia Alliance announced that its interoperability testing event will be held January 23, 2006. As the first of several such planned activities, the event will bring together the Alliance's WiMedia Ultra-Wideband (UWB) chip manufacturers to establish communication between chipsets built by different companies. Participating Alliance members will also contribute to the construction and refinement of the test process that will be used for the official WiMedia Alliance Certification Program.

Launching the testing event program is a result of the WiMedia Alliance's efforts to bring industry-interoperable UWB products to market. While the January session marks the first formal WiMedia testing event, some members have already laid the groundwork through preliminary testing at a lab sponsored by Intel Corporation.

"We were very pleased to see both the advanced state of the companies' designs as well as the level of success achieved during preliminary testing," commented Brad Hosler, chairman of the WiMedia Alliance Certification and Interoperability Committee and Intel representative. "Now that we have a formal industry framework for these events, we anticipate extremely productive sessions with strong participation as companies prepare to ready devices for certification."

Following completion of its scheduled interoperability events, the WiMedia Alliance expects to implement formal device certification during the second half of 2006.

All WiMedia Alliance members with functional chipsets are invited to participate in the interoperability events. These events present the opportunity to test WiMedia-based devices from different vendors during the pre-certification phase.

SOURCE: WiMedia Alliance