Notice: Wi-Fi Alliance has suspended NFC testing

Wi-Fi Alliance has been publishing several notices about NFC test, and it just informed that the NFC testing has been suspended. Details are as below: Under Engineering Change Notice #193: Sony has discontinued its support of NFC: Remove all references to Sony in the NFC testing. NFC will be supported by NXP only. This applies to both the test plan and the tech ops manual. For the next 90 days, until 29th July, Sony¡¦s equipment may continued to be used in certification. After 29th July, only NXP¡¦s equipment may be used for NFC certification. Under Engineering Change Notice #194: ¡ECurrently there is only one company in the WPS test bed that is supporting NFC certification. This is contrary to the original requirement of at least 2 companies supporting NFC certification in the test bed. ¡EUpdate to ECN 193. NFC certification by ATLs will be suspended immediately and will be suspended until further notice. Notice on 7TH May, 2010: Wi-Fi Alliance has put out an email to the membership to ask for any member who wishes to submit equipment to be used in the WPS test bed for NFC testing. Resumption of NFC certification depends on obtaining more equipment for the test bed. Notice on 9th June, 2010: Test bed device support for the NFC (Near Field Communication) test option for Wi-Fi Protected Setup has been discontinued. Additionally, no member has responded within the past 30 days to a request for new NFC candidate devices for the test bed. Due to the lack of test bed equipment support and in accordance with the MRD requirements for NFC testing, Wi-Fi Alliance staff has suspended NFC option testing and will be removing the test feature from the WSC1.0 test plan and certification system testing menu. Reinstatement of NFC as an optional certification feature will require a new initiative within the task group and associated blind poll/plugfest work. Attachment Download (78.3KB): Contact Information: HwaYa Sales Dept.: +886-3-318-3232 (Brian Lee Ext.: 1636 brian.lee@tw.bureauveritas.com) Linkou Sales Dept.: +886-2-2605-2180 (Sandy Lin Ext.: 3117 sandy.lin@tw.bureauveritas.com) Hsinchu Sales Dept.: +886-3-593-5343 (Jet Lee Ext. 1717 jet.lee@tw.bureauveritas.com) Oversea Sales Dept.: +886-3-318-3232 (Ching-I Chang Ext.: 1667 ci.chang@tw.bureauveritas.com) Click for Chinese Version (¤¤¤åª©)

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