U.S.-China Surveillance

In the seemingly never-ending saga of China’s resistance to the now global standard for wireless encryption, 802.11i, the Chinese firm Nufront has presented a new standard for wireless encryption at an annual IEEE conference being held in Orlando, Florida. According to the China Daily:

On the heels of the failure in the tussle between its Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) standard and the IEEE-blessed WiFi, China is now trying again to establish an international standard of its own.

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“Nufront’s high-speed wireless local network solutions are technologically advanced and offers faster data transmission, good mobility and improved functions,” said academician Wu Hequan, vice-president of the elite Chinese Academy of Engineering. “My academy supports and encourages it to apply to become global standards.”

Nufront Software executives made the case at the conference that its solutions are capable of quickening the digital data transmission from the present 12-18 mbps (megabit per second) to 24-36 mbps, and the solutions are compatible with the telecommunications systems now in function.