Wi-Fi Alliance

He'll talk about it in a minute.

uh it does damage the battery and why is there a benefit to at alex will explain that it's interesting to see the ps portal get this sort of attention especially in light of recent evidence that a new iteration of the accessory is coming soon evidence of a revised unit appears to have been uncovered by the verge courtesy of wi-fi alliance documents submitted by the manufacturer on the 21st of september The updated devices, which correspond to gaming console slash peripherals, are listed with the model numbers CFI-Y2000 and CFI-Y2105.

The original PlayStation Portal was CFI-Y1000.

So this immediately indicates a step up in the same product family.

We now have some pretty good evidence that a PlayStation Portal OLED or maybe even a PlayStation Portal Pro may be coming this year and is locked in as a plan.

So what happened? How do we know this? Well, there were certifications filed with the Wi-Fi Alliance for two brand new devices.

And they're doing the model number thing that they've done before in the past.

So we've seen this before with other devices with PlayStation.

But again, hopefully the Wi-Fi just works, right? And these Matter devices just work.

And again, if we get that service provision layer done right, or you guys do, and this works in tandem with Purple and the other organizations that are feeding in different components of how because that router is a complicated thing, right? But on the hardware side and on the networking side, what the Wi-Fi Alliance does is extremely important.

Right, right.

And it is a

Thank you for the invite.

So Daryl, you're here because, uh, you know, you've worked for the Wi-Fi Alliance, and you've, you've participated in some of the tests and certifications in the labs.

So we asked you to, uh, see if you wanted to come and share some of that experience with us because that's something that's, um, you know, kinda interesting for us in the field.

We see the results.

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the mechanic of it all.

Um, so we thought it would be interesting to kinda share a little bit of the behind the scene of, you know, what, what is actually taking place when you do a certification test, uh, with the Wi- Wi-Fi Alliance, why it is important, um, and then maybe you can tell us a couple of stories of thing that happened to you as you were doing this work for the Wi-Fi Alliance.

But before we get into all of this, do, uh, do you mind just presenting yourself, just, uh, telling us, you know, who you are, where are you from, where you live, um, you know, wha- how you got involved in Wi-Fi, um, uh, so can peop- so people can, uh, get to know you a little bit?