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Certification focus
This issue of DECT Today focuses on standards and certification, so please allow me to give you an insight here into the certification programme.
I'm sure you understand the importance of standards, which allow technologies such as DECT to be standardised globally, and ensure that technology products from multiple vendors work together. As the International Standards organization says:
“International Standards bring technological, economic and societal benefits. They help to harmonize technical specifications of products and services making industry more efficient and breaking down barriers to international trade. Conformity to International Standards helps reassure consumers that products are safe, efficient and good for the environment.”
But what about certification? The DECT Forum has made a major effort to create certification programmes for CAT-iq and Security with a number of common aims.
The CAT-iq certification programme promotes CAT-iq to market stakeholders, such as end users, carriers and retailers as a technically credible implementation of conformity to a set of standards that will add value to their industry and indeed, their lives.
The CAT-iq certification programme covers a range of issues, including interoperability of chipsets, drivers, applications, system level software, and the communication protocol stack. It also ensures interoperability of devices as well as features and functions from different manufacturers. And finally, certification helps to ensure quality levels for product characteristics, with the aim of achieving a consistent user experience.
To enter the programme, you need to be a full member of the DECT Forum and, having achieved certification for a product or set of products, this then entitles you to use the DECT Forum logo, on the product and on promotional materials. In addition to the CAT-iq logo certification also provides access to the HDVoice Logo (licensed via GSMA).
The DECT Security certification programme helps to enhance the security of DECT standards- compliant products by improvements to the authentication and encryption algorithms, ensuring that issues such as malicious man-in-the-middle attacks via rogue handsets, for example, are far less likely. The programme not only enables full DECT Forum members to obtain formal security certification but also enables vendors to promote DECT-based products as secure. As with the CAT-iq certification programme, your company must be a full DECT Forum member to enter the programme, and achieving certification enables use of the logo.
Andreas Zipp
Chairman of the Board
This edition of DECT Today
This issue majors on certification, as Andreas has pointed out, with articles from the Security and CAT-iq Working groups highlighting the latest dev- elopments in the two key certification programmes. That's not all, of course.
Following on from our DECT Awards, we have feature articles from Panasonic, our Innovation Award Winner, SGW, our Design Award Winner, and DSP Group, which discusses giving IoT a voice. This month, see DECT
Forum welcome a new business development director Daniel Hartnett, and we include an interview with the aim of finding out what his aims and goals are for the foreseeable future.
As always, we include news of new products, and a host of other topics. So please let us know how much (or how little!) you enjoyed this issue of DECT Today – we look forward to hearing from you.
And finally, a heads-up on the next issue, due out in April 2016. We welcome companies wishing to place editorial and advertising content in the magazine, and provide special discounts for DECT Forum and ULE Alliance members are available. So please start planning to create stimulating articles for the next issue.
Have a great Broadband World Forum 2015!
Manek Dubash
Editor
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