The Wi-Fi Alliance on Wednesday announced that products from Broadcom Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp. and three other companies have been certified for meeting the WPA2 capability, a new security standard designed to protect enterprise wireless LANs.
Atheros Communications Inc., Instant802 Networks Inc. and Realtek Semiconductor Corp. also have certified products.
The first WPA2 products are projected to be available from vendors later this month, according to the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Based upon the ratified IEEE 802.11i standard, WPA2 uses an encryption technique called Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), building upon the original WPA specification.
“WPA2 is ideally suited for enterprises in both the public and private sectors,” says Wi-Fi Alliance Managing Director Frank Hanzlik. “Products that are CERTIFIED for WPA2 give IT managers the assurance that the technology meets interoperability standards and in turn, helps them manage support and deployment costs.”
