Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: Wi-Fi Protected Access
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 November 2002
WLAN chips to
support new security solution
IEEE802.11 products from Texas Instruments will fully support the new Wi-Fi Protected Access security solution announced last week by the Wi-Fi Alliance
The solution is a software upgrade to replace WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), enabling stronger security for 802.11 wireless LANs until the IEEE802.11i standard is finalised. 'Robust security is a critical feature for all WLAN products. Wi-Fi Protected Access provides an easy software upgrade to existing products that allows WLAN equipment vendors to keep users' data more secure, until the IEEE802.11i standard is completed next year', said Bill Carney, Director of Business Development of TI's Wireless Networking Business Unit, and also TI's member of the Wi-Fi Alliance Board of Directors.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 November 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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'TI fully supports extended security features and will include Wi-Fi Protected Access as a standard feature for all our next generation station and access point software product releases.
TI will offer our 802.11 customers a software upgrade to existing products for the first round of Wi-Fi testing in February 2003'.
Wi-Fi Protected Access is derived from the work being done on the IEEE802.11i draft standard for security and is designed to be compatible with the final 802.11i standard.
The software upgradeable security is meant to increase the level of key privacy and management used with encryption and authentication in WLANs, to provide additional security for wireless enterprises and home networks.
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