Henceforth Boingo has its first commercial Next Generation Hotspot Wi-Fi network at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

It is official since the last week, Boingo Wireless one of the leading DAS and Wi-Fi provider that serves consumers, carriers and advertisers worldwide, announced that the company has launched its first commercial Next Generation Hotspot Wi-Fi network at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

Billed as the world’s first commercial Next Generation Hotspot Wi-Fi network at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, one of

the world’s busiest airports with more than 67 million annual passengers, the network uses equipment that has been Passpoint certified by Wi-Fi Alliance. Passpoint-certified networks, based on the Wi-Fi Alliance Hotspot 2.0 specification, aims to allow users to benefit from seamless network authentication even while roaming.

Connectikpeople has observed that, Passpoint-certified mobile devices are able to automatically discover and connect to the best available network, using the latest in enterprise grade WPA2 security protection.

Boingo announced that, it is now live and available for end-to-end testing by mobile carriers, Wi-Fi operators, and handset manufacturers, especially those already participating in the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA) Next Generation Hotspot trials.