Progress Being Made on Wi-Fi/LTE-U Testing, Wi-Fi Alliance Tells FCC
Progress is being made on a plan to test coexistence between Wi-Fi devices and LTE-unlicensed devices, Edgar Figueroa, president of the Wi-Fi Alliance, and Wi-Fi advocates told the FCC. The alliance reported on meetings with Edward Smith, aide to Chairman…
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Tom Wheeler, and Ira Keltz, deputy chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology. “The Wi-Fi Alliance process is working, and Wi-Fi Alliance met its target of releasing an alpha version of the draft test plan on April 1, which reflected changes to account for recent requests made by LTE-U stakeholders as part of the process,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 15-105. The “Wi-Fi Alliance has been responsive to the requests of LTE-U interests," it added. "Validation of this alpha version of the test plan has already begun and LTE-U stakeholders are free today to perform test plan validation exercises.” Some makers of LTE-U devices may prefer to exercise the alpha test plan against their equipment internally first, the alliance said. “The process is moving forward rapidly with the goal of delivering a final coexistence test plan (which can then be used to test devices) during the summer of 2016.” Also attending the meetings were representatives of Comcast, Google, Microsoft and NCTA.