Industry Affiliations
The Bluetooth SIG is a global community of over 36,000 companies serving to unify, harmonize and drive innovation in the vast range of connected devices all around us. Through collective creation and shared technical standards, Bluetooth® technology simplifies, secures and enriches the technology experience of users worldwide. For more information, please visit www.bluetooth.com.
GCF is a non-profit, global membership driven organisation that promotes mobile and IoT certification programmes for conformity to agreed standards of inter operability. Shaping the industry since 1999 with mobile technology at its core, GCF today has over 335 members from major operators and MVNO's, device and IoT manufacturers and the test industry, working collaboratively in assocation with key industry partners to ensure that certification programmes are industry relevant. With certification programmes continually evolving, (recent additions include IoT chipset and modules, 5G, oneM2M, automotive C-V2X, RSP and mission critical services), GCF provides device-network interoperability, reduction in testing costs and accelerated time-to-market, any device or terminal product incorporating 3GPP technology can be certified. For more information visit www.globalcertificationforum.org.
IWPC facilitates global knowledge-capital collaboration, delivering unfiltered real time insight into vital technology, market and ecosystem evolution. Our technology-neutral Community provides leadership to identify new markets, products & service opportunities; illuminate potential supply chain gaps; and network with first-hand knowledge experts. For ALL things wireless. For more information visit www.iwpc.org.
MIPI Alliance is a collaborative global organization serving industries that develop mobile and mobile-influenced devices. The focus of the organization is to design and promote hardware and software interfaces that simplify the integration of components built into a device, from the antenna and modem to peripherals and the application processor. MIPI Alliance crafts all of its specifications to meet the stringent operating conditions required in mobile devices: high-bandwidth performance, low power consumption, and low electromagnetic interference (EMI). For more information visit www.mipi.org.
The SD Association is a global ecosystem of companies setting industry-leading memory card standards that simplify the use and extend the life of consumer electronics, including mobile phones, for millions of people every day. The Association does not manufacture, market or sell any product; it exists to create standards and then promote the adoption, advancement and use of SD standards used by competing product manufacturers that make interoperable memory cards and devices.For more information visit www.sdcard.org.
Wi-Fi Alliance® is the worldwide network of companies that brings you Wi-Fi®, one of the world’s most valued communications technologies. Our vision is to connect everyone and everything, everywhere. Wi-Fi Alliance drives global Wi-Fi adoption and evolution through thought leadership, spectrum advocacy, and industry-wide collaboration. Our work includes the development of innovative technologies, requirements, and test programs that help ensure Wi-Fi provides users the interoperability, security, and reliability they have come to expect. For more information visit www.wi-fi.org.
The WiMAX Forum is a worldwide consortium chartered to deliver certification that achieves global interoperability, develop technical specifications based on open standards, pursue a favorable regulatory environment and promote the vision. For more information visit www.wimaxforum.org.