Netgear products get IEEE certification

New Delhi: Netgear announced that all its wireless products based on the Draft
802.11n will comply to the new IEEE standard specification. This has
come in effect ever since IEEE Standards Board had officially approved
the IEEE 802.11N as a standard with significantly improved data rates
and ranges for wireless LAN communications.

Besides this certification, all Netgear products that have also achieved
Draft 11n certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA). This will carry
Wi-Fi certified 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 Netgear's innovations. 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 that how serious we are about
the quality improvement and differentiation.”

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.

According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, all existing Wi-Fi Certified Draft N wireless products will still work with the final standard.

The company claims that Netgear 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.

According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, most, if not all, of the existing
equipment can be upgraded to the final specification via a firmware
update. Finally, all future wireless networking products will be
compatible with today's products that have been Wi-Fi-certified.