Wipro gets test lab status

The pre-certification lab will allow Wipro Technologies to pre-test its products for Wi-Fi Alliance which has 300 member companies.

Wipro Technologies has been selected by the Wi-Fi Alliance to become an authorised pre-certification test lab, only the third such facility of the global industry trade association in the world.

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The other two such labs are located in the US and Taiwan, said Frank Hanzlik, Managing Director of Wi-Fi Alliance, which has close to 300 member companies devoted to promoting the growth of wireless local area networks (WLAN), at a news conference in Bangalore on Tuesday.

The pre-certification lab will allow Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of New York Stock Exchange-listed Wipro Limited, to pre-test products for Wi-Fi Alliance members who are planning to pursue Wi-Fi certification, and marks the non-profit association's first presence in the India market.

"Numerous Wi-Fi Alliance member companies currently have large-scale operations in India," said Hanzlik. "With increasing demand for Wi-Fi products worldwide, it is only natural that we extend member services in India and the pre-certification lab is just the start."

President, Global IT Service Lines, Wipro Technologies, Suresh Vaswani, said testing services is a rapidly growing segment for the company, which has a 5,500 people dedicated for testing services from which it derived a revenue of USD 57 million in the last quarter.

Testing services is growing at the rate of ten-plus percentage points for the company in the last eight quarters, he added.