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Legacy Equipment And 802.11n: Page 2 of 2

During testing our Syracuse RealWorld Labs discovered an interoperability issue between a leading vendor's legacy client and another vendor's 802.11n access point, even though both are Wi-Fi certified. Who's to blame?
December 09, 2007

Even though I wish the Wi-Fi Alliance performed more thorough and transparent testing, it's unlikely to happen. The alliance always has been about basic interoperability testing, and the most enterprise buyers could hope for is a higher-grade, perhaps "enterprise-grade," certification. In the meantime, it will be up to customers in the field and vendors in their QA labs to discover the incompatibilities and deal with them as they arise.

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