Best-selling Cirronet Wireless Data Module Now RoHS-Compliant; WIT2450 OEM Module is `Lead-Free' Months Ahead of EU Regulatory Requirement.DULUTH, Ga. -- Cirronet(TM) announces the immediate availability of RoHS-compliant wireless 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 modules. The first compliant Cirronet product to ship is the popular WIT2450 module, with the company's complete line of OEM module products shipping in compliance by the end of the first quarter. The European Union's RoHS (Restrictions on Hazardous Substances) directive, which will go into effect on July 1, 2006, limits the allowed amount of six hazardous materials in electronic equipment sold in European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community member countries. For wireless data radio modules such as those manufactured by Cirronet, the primary material in question is lead, which comes from various components and from lead-based solder solder (sŏd`ər), metal alloy used in the molten state as a metallic binder. The type of solder to be used is determined by the metals to be united. Soft solders are commonly composed of lead and tin and have low melting points. Hard solders (i. used in manufacturing. "We have been working closely with our component suppliers and manufacturing partners for the past year, adjusting our manufacturing processes to ensure that we are RoHS-compliant well ahead of schedule," says Tim Cutler, Cirronet vice president of marketing. "By providing our customers with compliant modules well ahead of the deadline, Cirronet is ensuring that their Cirronet-based end products can be RoHS compliant well in advance of the July 1 deadline, simplifying inventory management and distribution chain issues." Because of the complexity of converting to RoHS compliance, Cirronet treats each compliant module as a new product, subjecting it to the entire testing and validation process as new products. In addition, Cirronet worked with metallurgy metallurgy (mĕt`əlûr'jē), science and technology of metals and their alloys. Modern metallurgical research is concerned with the preparation of radioactive metals, with obtaining metals economically from low-grade ores, with specialists to gain insight into the subtleties of a lead-free soldering soldering Process that uses metal alloys with low melting points to join metallic surfaces without melting them. Tin-lead solders, once widely used in the electrical and plumbing industries, are now replaced by lead-free alloys. process, especially the affects that occur only after time. This ensures that the company's RoHS compliant products will offer the field-proven reliability customers have come to expect of Cirronet. "Companies that have only recently embarked on RoHS programs have their work cut out for them to meet the July 1 deadline," says Cutler, "and OEM customers that receive RoHS-compliant modules just before the July 1 deadline will face a complicated inventory management problem. The challenge is even tougher for OEM customers using a distribution channel, as they face the return of non-RoHS compliant product from distributors on July 1." Cirronet RoHS-compliant products use the original part number with a "-G" added at the end. For example, the RoHS compliant WIT2450 is part number WIT2450M2-G. Cirronet is allowing customers with orders already placed for the non-RoHS compliant WIT2450 to change those orders to the RoHS compliant part. There is no difference in price for the RoHS compliant module. About Cirronet Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, Cirronet has 18 years of success in developing innovative wireless products for industrial, scientific and military use. Cirronet offers the industry's most complete selection of wireless OEM modules and ready-to-use devices, with separate product lines featuring the company's patented frequency hopping A wireless modulation method that rapidly changes the center frequency of a transmission. See spread spectrum and 802.11. spread spectrum (FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum) See spread spectrum. ), ZigBee(TM), 802.11b and Bluetooth(TM) implementations. Cirronet products, which are FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. certified, UL certified and CE marked, operate in license-free ISM bands (Industrial, Scientific and Medical band) A part of the radio spectrum that can be used by anybody without a license in most countries. In the U.S., the 902-928 MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.7-5. . For more information, visit www.cirronet.com. |
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