What is the Wi-Fi alliance?

The image above shows Wi-Fi Federation certification, an unfamiliar logo that is a symbol of wireless support, and is starting to appear frequently on smartphones, PDAs, laptops and various portable devices.

Wi-Fi Federation (Wi-Fi Alliance) is a global and non-profit industry association with more than 300 member companies working together to promote the development of the wireless local Area network (WLANs) industry. Aimed at enhancing the user experience of mobile wireless, portable, mobile, and home devices, Wi-Fi Alliance has been working to ensure interoperability of the IEEE 802.11 standard WLAN products through its testing and certification program. Since the March 2000 Wi-Fi Alliance to carry out this certification, there are more than 4000 products have received Wi-Fi certified designated certification mark, a strong impetus to the Wi-Fi products and services in the consumer market and enterprise market in the overall development of both.

In addition, it is necessary to emphasize the pronunciation of WiFi, in the computer city to buy equipment often see many people do not know how to read the word, in the purchase of wireless equipment and communication with people make a lot of jokes, such as, often read as Weifei. The correct pronunciation of WiFi is [Wai] [FAI], phonetic transliteration is waifai, according to the famous American Webster's University dictionary and France's Robert Dictionary, the phonetic transcription is [WiFi], pronunciation or for waifai.