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Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Agile Multiband™ enables intelligent Wi-Fi® networks

Wi-Fi Agile Multiband™ brings consistent connectivity in changing Wi-Fi network environments

Austin, TX – December 12, 2017 – Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Agile Multiband™ is a new certification program from Wi-Fi Alliance® that enables devices to utilize Wi-Fi® network resources better, and networks to adapt and balance load as network conditions change. Wi-Fi Agile Multiband™ devices dynamically exchange information about a network environment, enabling devices to make smarter decisions and quicker connections in home, enterprise, and managed network environments. Wi-Fi Agile Multiband delivers new capabilities that provide a better experience with both static use cases, such as streaming a high-definition movie, and mobile use cases such as Wi-Fi calling.

Based on global standards, such as IEEE 802.11 k, v, u, r, and Wi-Fi Alliance® defined technologies, Wi-Fi Agile Multiband brings a standardized approach to efficient Wi-Fi network resource management that also ensures interoperability across device vendors. Key benefits of Wi-Fi Agile Multiband include:

Dynamic monitoring (i.e. exchanging network information): Constant, parallel network information exchange about the Wi-Fi radio environment enables client devices to evaluate the best access point (AP), band, or channel connection, avoiding issues with devices that stick to a particular AP longer than appropriate

Constant, parallel network information exchange about the Wi-Fi radio environment enables client devices to evaluate the best access point (AP), band, or channel connection, avoiding issues with devices that stick to a particular AP longer than appropriate Intelligent steering (i.e. making informed network loading): Mechanisms allow APs to intelligently guide clients to less congested or recommended APs, frequency bands, and channels to balance network traffic and meet other management needs

Mechanisms allow APs to intelligently guide clients to less congested or recommended APs, frequency bands, and channels to balance network traffic and meet other management needs Fast network transitions (i.e. authenticating quicker): Faster, secure roaming while traversing a network delivers improved mobility and better experiences with latency-sensitive applications such as voice-over Wi-Fi and mobile video streaming

“Today’s Wi-Fi delivers connectivity to services and content for many devices in different environments,” said Edgar Figueroa, president and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance. “Wi-Fi Agile Multiband brings new capabilities that increase network and device performance and ultimately provide a better Wi-Fi user experience.”

The first Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Agile Multiband products which comprise the test bed for interoperability certification are:

Broadcom BCM4361 11ac STA Reference Design

Intel ® Home Wi-Fi Chipset-based 802.11ac 4-stream Concurrent Dual Band Router

Home Wi-Fi Chipset-based 802.11ac 4-stream Concurrent Dual Band Router Intel ® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265

Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 Marvell 802.11ac Wave2 Wi-Fi Test Bed Evaluation Kit

MediaTek MT7621A+MT7615 802.11abgn/ac Ref. AP

Ruckus R710 Access Point

Ruckus ZoneDirector™ 1200 Controller

Qualcomm® mobile Wi-Fi AC2 chipset

For more information, including a technology overview and technology highlights, please visit: https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-agile-multiband

About Wi-Fi Alliance®

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Wi-Fi Alliance® is the worldwide network of companies that brings you Wi-Fi®. Members of our collaboration forum come together from across the Wi-Fi ecosystem with the shared vision to connect everyone and everything, everywhere, while providing the best possible user experience. Since 2000, Wi-Fi Alliance has certified more than 35,000 Wi-Fi products. The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ seal of approval designates products with proven interoperability, backward compatibility, and the highest industry-standard security protections in place. Today, Wi-Fi carries more than half of the internet’s traffic in an ever-expanding variety of applications. Wi-Fi Alliance continues to drive the adoption and evolution of Wi-Fi, which billions of people rely on every day.

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