Wireless Group Says Interoperability Problem Rising

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HANOVER, Germany (AP) - Increasing complexity and stronger security is making it harder for new wireless computer networking products to hook up with each other, an industry group promoting the technology said Thursday at the CeBIT tech fair.


The Wi-Fi Alliance said that 22 percent of the devices - such as wireless networking cards for computers, access ports and printer servers - submitted for testing at its four partner laboratories failed to work on a network on the first try

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"As equipment becomes more advanced, we're actually seeing interoperability failures go up," said Brian Grimm, marketing director for the alliance, which is based in Mountain View, Calif.

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