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To: w2j2 who wrote (16038)	4/30/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: trendmastr	Respond to of 29386

The University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Lab Announces Wireless Consortium Test Results DURHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 1998-- Five participating vendors take part in first UNH-IOL Wireless Consortium 802.11 Direct Sequence group test period The University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) today announced that its first multi-vendor IEEE 802.11 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) Wireless LAN testing period was held April 23 and 24, 1998 at the UNH-IOL Leavitt Center Testing Facility. The participating companies were Aironet Wireless Communications, Inc., Harris Semiconductor (NYSE:HRS), Lucent Technologies, Netwave Technologies, Inc., and No Wires Needed. Since true multi-vendor interoperability is critical for the adoption of wireless technology, as members of the Wireless Consortium, these companies are committed to continued joint testing efforts. In this recent round of wireless testing, the major focus was on the interoperability of direct sequence devices as specified in the IEEE 802.11 standard. The group test period examined basic connectivity between multi-vendors, product robustness and basic roaming using a multi-vendor configured wireless network connected to an Ethernet backbone. "It was encouraging to see the rapid progress made towards true multi-vendor 802.11 interoperability and the close cooperation of the vendors present," said Kevin Karcz, Lab manager of the UNH-IOL's Wireless Consortium. "We found that basic connectivity was achieved meaning that each vendors' station card was able to associate with the other vendors' Access Point." Although this was the first DSSS test period, it was the IOL's third multi-vendor event examining products based upon the 802.11 standard. The results taken from this event and the further development of our testing environment allows for more extensive interoperability and conformance testing of the 802.11 standard both at future group test periods and in the laboratory on a daily basis. The UNH-IOL encourages vendors to conduct such testing by providing facilities for a multi-vendor test environment and has the capabilities to allow remote testing. To date, vendors have concentrated on interoperability of products within a campus environment, working toward the customer's desire for a truly heterogeneous network. Another multi-vendor test period date is expected to take place sometime in the Summer/Fall of 1998. The lab is available for its members to perform individual company testing between scheduled multi-vendor test periods. The goal of the UNH-IOL is to provide complete testing for all products used in networking. UNH-IOL provides interoperability testing for 1394, ADSL, 10Base-T, ATM, Fast Ethernet, FDDI, FDSE, Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, IP/Routing, Network Management, Token Ring, 100VG-AnyLAN, VLAN, and Wireless. Information on the UNH-IOL can always be obtained from their World Wide Web Server at "http://www.iol.unh.edu". CONTACT: UNH-IOL Marketing & Public Rel. Michael Froning, 603/862-4105 or Wireless Consortium Lab Manager Kevin Karcz, 603/862-1008