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Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Gigabit Alliance are Now One

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Mar 5, 2013, 11:20 AM by Eric M. Zeman

The Wi-Fi Alliance today announced that its planned merger with the Wireless Gigabit Alliance is now complete. The joined organizations believe WiGig technology is a natural complement to Wi-Fi for short-range mobile broadband applications. They also believe that together the new Wi-Fi Alliance can work more efficiently on future short-range wireless broadband standards and technologies. The first Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification program for WiGig products is expected to launch by the end of 2013.

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