Qualified Solution#

The Qualified Solution is foundational to QuickTrack, a path for achieving Wi-Fi CERTIFIED end products. QuickTrack is tailored to products based on Qualified Solutions that have already completed Wi-Fi core testing. QuickTrack allows targeted modifications to Wi-Fi components and functionality.

A Solution Provider creates a Qualified Solution by determining the Wi-Fi Component Combination (Wi-Fi CC) and Wi-Fi capabilities that the product contains.

The Wi-Fi CC components tracked by Wi-Fi Alliance consist of:

  • Chipset

  • RF architecture

  • Firmware

  • Driver

  • Operating System (OS)

  • Physical interface

  • RF components

  • Antenna

A Solution Provider may have additional components that make up the Qualified Solution, but Wi-Fi Alliance will only record the Wi-Fi components listed above in the Certification System as a Wi-Fi CC.

Solution Providers can use Qualified Solution variants for their own products and/or provide their customers a choice between different Wi-Fi components or Wi-Fi capabilities from the same Qualified Solution.

An end product developer may use any Qualified Solution variant available in the Certification System. If an end product developer needs to make a change to their Wi-Fi CERTIFIED end product, they may create an end product variant.

An end product developer shall use QuickTrack to test changes to any of the following Qualified Solution components:

  • Operating System (OS)

  • Physical interface

  • RF components

  • Antenna

Changes to the following components of the Wi-Fi CC may require core testing. Wi-Fi Alliance may allow an end product developer to use QuickTrack to test changes to these components as long as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED assurances are met. It is the responsibility of both the Solution Provider and the end product developer to maintain Wi-Fi CERTIFIED assurances when making changes to these components:

  • Firmware

  • Driver

A Solution Provider or end product developer shall not modify the following components of a Wi-Fi CC in a variant:

  • Chipset

  • RF architecture (including spatial streams and the number of radios)

Changes to these components require creation of a new product, i.e., new Qualified Solution or new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED end product.

Note: This section is taken from Quick Track Qualified Solution Policy for informational purpose and Silicon Labs doesn’t own any rights to this Section.