FAQs

The popularity of voice over IP (VoIP) and widespread adoption of Wi-Fi networks are bringing voice over Wi‑Fi to a broad consumer market. Wi‑Fi enabled devices need to support good voice call performance that matches the user experience and ease of set-up that Wi‑Fi already provides for data applications.

The Wi-Fi Alliance baseline certification programs for 802.11a/b/g/n and Wi-Fi Protected Access®(WPA2), help to ensure interoperability between Wi-Fi CERTIFIED handsets and access points and support for standards-based security protections.  Wi-Fi Multimedia™ (WMM®) also provides tools for Quality of Service, necessary for providing good performance.

The Voice-Personal certification program goes to the next level, helping to ensure that the tools are used correctly to create good voice quality when a call is made over a Wi-Fi network using a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Voice-Personal client device and Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Voice-Personal access point or router.