TI and Atheros ready to support China’s WAPI
Daniel Shen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DigiTimes.com [Friday 13 February 2004]
WLAN devices vendors, including Texas Instruments (TI), Atheros Communications and Taiwanese companies like D-Link, CyberTan Technology and Global Sun Technology, are willing to develop products that comply with the WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) regulations in China.
The WAPI regulations, the WLAN standards initiated by China’s government, are to come into force on June 1, despite continued resistance from the Wi-Fi Alliance and companies like Broadcom.
Terry Cheng, president of TI’s Asia division, said last week in China that the WAPI standard is technically acceptable and TI would launch related devices before June in cooperation with Chinese vendors. D-Link will take part in TI’s development efforts, said an official of the Taiwanese company.
Tom Foster, vice president for worldwide sales at Atheros, told DigiTimes last week that his company is also willing to follow the standard and is now working with Chinese makers to develop WLAN devices compliant with the standard.
Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, is still evaluating the situation, but would consider partnering with its Taiwanese suppliers and Chinese makers to support WAPI, said Victor Tsao, the company’s general manager and also a vice president of Cisco.
digitimes.com
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