The Wi - Fi Alliance will launch a program to simplify the use of Wi - Fi hot spot in July , making it easier for both users and peregrine manipulator to get off strained cellular networks .
user of smartphones , tablets , camera and other Wi - Fi - equipped devices will be able to get onto hotspots without entering usernames or passwords , the group say in a livid paper release on Tuesday . The paper outlined the program , call Wi - Fi Certified Passpoint , and said the first phase of certification trial will begin in July . A second phase begin next class will add more features .
“ It ’s going to be there for the tenacious term , ” said analyst Peter Jarich of Current Analysis . “ It ’s going to be a part of the way operators see at their connection , search frontward . ” As evidence of that course , cellular web colossus Ericsson announced Tuesday it wouldacquire BelAir Networks , a privately hold Canadian God Almighty of Wi - Fi gear .
Wi - Fi Certified Passpoint is an attempt at a standard set of tools for interoperability among access full point and client devices from different vendor . On the strength of the Alliance ’s widely recognized logo programs for basic Wi - Fi , security , multimedia system and other functions , it could transmute the direction consumers see — or do n’t see — Wi - Fi hotspots .
“ As an industry - all-embracing resolution , Passpoint will work in any web and overcome the limitation of proprietary , non - interoperable solutions offered by some providers today , ” the Alliance said in its white paper . The Wi - Fi Alliance has influence with the Wireless Broadband Alliance , a mathematical group of carrier organized for hotspot standards , to harmonize the two standard , accord to the clean newspaper .
In the first stage of the program , in increase to authentication methods , the Alliance will certify products for internet uncovering and survival base on user preferences , what networks are available and other element , using the IEEE 802.11u criterion . The first stage will also establish security during the manipulation of hotspots , mandate the Alliance ’s own WPA-2 Enterprise ( Wi - Fi Protected Access ) engineering for every connection made through Passpoint .
Vendors will have to have all the components of the specification to win documentation , but Passpoint hotspots can be made compatible with senior access points and devices . However , the benefits of Passpoint wo n’t be available in those case .
