NETGEAR(R) Inc., a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, has announced that all its wireless products based on the Draft 802.11n will comply with the new IEEE standard specification. This has come into effect after the IEEE Standards Board has officially approved the IEEE 802.11N as a standard with significantly improved data rates and ranges for Wireless LAN communications.
After the certification comes into effect, all NETGEAR products that have achieved Draft 11n certification from the WiFi Alliance (WFA) will carry Wi-Fi CERTIFIED n compliant logo.
Expressing his satisfaction, Atul Jain, Country Manager, NETGEAR India and SAARC, said, “It is a great achievement for us as IEEE Standards Board has officially recognized the NETGEAR’s innovations so also WFA. I am happy that there will be a lot of interoperability along with the competition platform which will bring a lot of value to the customers. All these certifications actually endorse the fact how serious we are about the quality improvement and differentiation.”
802.11n offers much higher speeds than the previous, already-ratified 802.11g, which caps at only 54Mbps. Due to the compelling higher speed, most wireless vendors have been offering 802.11n-based (also known as Wireless-N) products during the past six years and calling them Draft N products.
Finalization of the new wireless networking standard, which is capable of delivering throughput speeds up to 300 megabits per second (and even higher), took exactly seven years from the day it was conceived, and six years from the first draft version. The standard has been through a dozen or so Draft versions
