Bandspeed and Open Interface North America Join Forces to Enable Bluetooth Coexistence with Wireless Local Area Networks.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers Bluetooth Developers Conference Booth No. 219 AUSTIN, Texas & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2001 Companies Can Now Embrace Benefits of Both Bluetooth(tm) and 802.11b Simultaneously Bandspeed Inc., a broadband technology broadband technology Telecommunications devices, lines, or technologies that allow communication over a wide band of frequencies, and especially over a range of frequencies divided into multiple independent channels for the simultaneous transmission of different signals. company, and Open Interface North America Open Interface North America OINA) is a privately owned embedded Bluetooth software provider based in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 2000. The company is known for highly efficient, scalable, portable and quality audio software. (Open Interface), a provider of qualified Bluetooth protocol stacks, today announced the first product that leverages Adaptive Frequency Hopping A wireless modulation method that rapidly changes the center frequency of a transmission. See spread spectrum and 802.11. (AFH AFH Adaptive Frequency Hopping AFH Away From Home AFH Army Family Housing AFH Air Force Handbook AFH Atlantic Fish Health (Charlottetown, PEI, Canada) AFH Administration, Finance, and Human Resources ) technology to allow Bluetooth-enabled devices to coexist with Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The companies will unveil the solution, based on Bandspeed's AFH HubMaster(tm) technology and Open Interface's BlueMagic(tm) AFH protocol stack, at the 2001 Bluetooth Developers Conference, which begins Dec. 11 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Bandspeed has developed Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) technology that enables the non-collaborative coexistence of Bluetooth-enabled devices with WLANs such as 802.11b. Open Interface's BlueMagic protocol stack integrated with Bandspeed's chipset creates a complete AFH coexistence solution for hardware manufacturers and OEMs. BlueMagic AFH is backwards compatible See backward compatible. backwards compatible - backward compatibility with Open Interface's Bluetooth specification version 1.1 and works with existing Bluetooth wireless devices. "A leading barrier to widespread adoption of Bluetooth is its inability to coexist with wireless LANs because of signal interference," said Michael Luther, chief executive officer, Bandspeed. "By integrating our chipset with Open Interface's protocol stack, developers can be assured that their Bluetooth-enabled products will not interfere with Wireless LANs or Wi-Fi networks." "This can represent a milestone in the adoption of Bluetooth-related technologies and products," said Joyce Putscher, director, converging markets and technologies group at Cahners In-Stat. "Peaceful coexistence Peaceful coexistence was a theory developed during the Cold War among Communist states that they could peacefully coexist with capitalist states. This was in contrast to theories, such as those implied by some interpretations of antagonistic contradiction, that Communism and means that WLANs won't have to be concerned with interference and degraded performance, and Bluetooth, with its low cost and low power consumption capabilities, can viably provide cableless device connectivity." "The support for Bandspeed's AFH technology in Open Interface's Bluetooth protocol stack enables companies to quickly evaluate the performance improvements from AFH on Windows 2000 and XP systems," said Hiroshi Onaka, vice chairman of Open Interface North America. "This is another example of Open Interface's commitment to provide OEM's with the best tools and support for developing Bluetooth enabled solutions." A fully functional demonstration of the Bandspeed Hubmaster(tm)/Open Interface co-existence solution will take place at the Bluetooth Developers Conference (booth 219) in San Francisco Dec. 11-13, 2001. BlueMagic is a registered trademark of Open Interface North America. Bluetooth is a registered trademark of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. Inc., USA. Hubmaster is a registered trademark of Bandspeed Inc. About Bandspeed Inc. Bandspeed Inc., a broadband technology company, delivers transceiver solutions for reliably connecting the broadband edge. Its proprietary signal processing See DSP. systems for interference mitigation and signal recovery facilitate broadband deployment and performance. Bandspeed provides an innovative portfolio of transceiver chipsets and software for wired and wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 communications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Bandspeed also has a research and development facility in Melbourne, Australia. For more information, please visit www.bandspeed.com. About Open Interface North America Open Interface Inc., established in Japan 1992 was one of the first companies to develop and introduce Bluetooth wireless technology in the Japanese market. Open Interface Inc.'s Bluetooth wireless technology assets were acquired by subsidiary Open Interface North America (Open Interface) in 2001. Open Interface drives ongoing Bluetooth development and marketing efforts. An associate member of the Bluetooth SIG, Open Interface has a complete qualified Bluetooth protocol stack suite and software development tools for OEMs and Bluetooth application developers. Open Interface was the first company to have its Bluetooth software integrated and shipped by a PC OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and in a standard product. Open Interface North America's Web site can be found at www.oi-us.com. |
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