ACTON, Mass. -- Azimuth Systems, the leading provider of Wi-Fi engineering test equipment, today announced a solution that enables Wi-Fi vendors to test their draft 802.11n-based products for interoperability, performance, conformance and backward compatibility. The Azimuth MIMO Functional Test solution is the industry’s first functional test equipment for the draft-802.11n specification and is built on Azimuth’s existing W-Series platform.

802.11n, the industry’s next mainstream Wi-Fi technology standard, enables new bandwidth-intensive applications at greater distances with improved reliability. 802.11n products will also expand the capabilities of Wi-Fi platforms and applications already in widespread use. While the specification is still in the draft phase, vendors are currently testing and, in some cases, introducing products based on the early 802.11n specification.

“802.11n technology will eventually push the industry past a billion Wi-Fi nodes,” said Jeff Abramowitz, vice president of marketing at Azimuth Systems. “Maximizing the performance of this next generation of products will require new testing methodologies. The new MIMO Functional Test solution and the existing Azimuth ACE channel emulator enable vendors to bring interoperable, high performance products to market more quickly.”

Azimuth Systems Inc.