How can involvement in the WLAN Consortium save my company money?
Perhaps the primary financial benefit of the WLAN Consortium lies in the physical and protocol compliance test services, which provide an additional cost-savings to vendors who do not wish to spend internal resources to develop this testing on their own. Members can benefit from the UNH-IOL expertise that has already been developed in these areas, and eliminate time spent “reinventing the wheel” internally. Plus, members get the added benefit of knowing that the test procedures and methodologies used have been reviewed and accepted by the member community, thus decreasing the potential for uncertainty in the interpretation of various aspects of the standard, or implementation of the tests. Furthermore, because the UNH-IOL does not require members to physically be present at the lab during scheduled testing (though attendance is certainly welcome), members save additionally in both travel expenses, and the work time that is reclaimed by not having to travel to an off-site facility for t
