Bluetooth Delivers Low-Cost Wireless Networking Option for Home Or SOHO Use; CSR Enables Billionton's Bluetooth 56K Dial-up Modem.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2003 CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. (Cambridge Silicon Radio) today announced that Billionton has launched a Bluetooth V.90, 56K modem using CSR's BlueCore single-chip technology. The Billionton BT56R modem is aimed at home and small office users and can be plugged into any telephone port providing Bluetooth-enabled PDAs, desktop and notebook PCs with a simple and inexpensive wireless network via a dial-up connection to the Internet. The modem will be available in the U.S. in Q2 from Cadmus Micro Inc. (www.cadmusmicro.com) under an 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 brand and with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $99. For more information and technical specifications go to http://www.billionton.com.tw. Based on CSR's BlueCore V.90 Access example design, the BT56R offers Class 1 Bluetooth performance with a range of up to 100m; this is more than sufficient for use in the home or small office and equivalent to the range of an 802.11b WiFi network See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. yet with much lower power demands on the portable device. Many mobile phones are now Bluetooth-enabled as are PDAs and notebook PCs. Desktop PCs with Bluetooth on the motherboard will hit the market soon, but in the interim; low-cost USB adapters are readily available to Bluetooth-enable existing PCs. Such a low cost and simple wireless network using Bluetooth allows home users to benefit from the flexibility of their portable devices. For example, a user can surf the Internet or access email while sitting in the garden, then send documents wirelessly to a Bluetooth-enabled printer. Bluetooth's ad-hoc nature also means that a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). can be synchronized unconsciously with a desktop PC; updated news content or emails can be loaded onto the PDA via the Internet. Because the BT56R removes the need for cables between PC and telephone port, multiple users can also access the Internet simultaneously, so that a parent and child could both work out of the home office and on school work simultaneously via a single dial up connection, thus sharing the available bandwidth. Ken Chiu, Vice President, Billionton commented, "Billionton provides products that allow users creativity and flexibility without losing sight of usability and reliability. For this reason we chose CSR's BlueCore solution. As the market leaders in Bluetooth technology, CSR has proven that innovative ideas can always be realized with a sturdy and robust technology as its backbone." Billionton's compact and lightweight modem offers a V.90 standard capable of 56K Internet connection. It has a fax transfer send and receive rate of up to 14.4 kbps in addition to communications software (communications, software) communications software - Application programs, operating system components, and probably firmware, forming part of a communication system. These different software components might be classified according to the functions within the Open Systems that is compatible with AT commands. CSR's BlueCore V.90 Access design is a ready-engineered example for a point-to-point Bluetooth access point. At its heart is an embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. , which focuses on reducing Bluetooth costs to a minimum. More information about the BlueCore V.90 Access example design used for the Billionton modem is available at: www.csr.com/products/examples.htm. About CSR CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) specializes in providing single-chip radio devices to the global market for short-range wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , including Bluetooth(TM). The company's mission is to create the most highly integrated radio devices available, fabricated using standard CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. technology, to provide its customers with the lowest cost of ownership of high quality digital radio. CSR was the first company in the world to offer a true single-chip Bluetooth solution with BlueCore, a fully integrated 2.4 GHz radio, baseband and microcontroller. In Q4 2001 CSR released BlueCore2, its second generation family, and offer developed hardware/software bundles for each of the fastest growing Bluetooth applications markets. Users can combine the chips with the CSR Bluetooth software stack to provide a fully compliant solution for data and voice communications or, used with an upper layer host software stack, CSR is able to offer a complete Bluetooth end-to-end solution. CSR has a growing list of major international companies including Microsoft Corp, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, Compaq, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Fujitsu, LG, ALPS Alps, great mountain system of S central Europe, c.500 mi (800 km) long and c.100 mi (160 km) wide, curving in a great arc from the Riviera coast on the Mediterranean Sea, along the borders of N Italy and adjacent regions of SE France, Switzerland, SW Germany, and , TDK TDK Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Council) TDK The Dark Knights (gaming clan) TDK Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo KK (TDK Electronics Co. Ltd. , 3Com, Mitsumi, Siemens and Motorola, who have already used CSR's BlueCore in the development of a range of Bluetooth products. In fact, 70 percent of available pre-qualified modules, as listed on the qualified products page 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. (SIG) web site, feature BlueCore and it is in 59 percent of all qualified Bluetooth v 1.1 enabled end product designs. CSR is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Richardson, Texas; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore and Aalborg, Denmark. More information about CSR can be found at www.csr.com and the CSR partner web site www.btdesigner.com More information about Bluetooth can be found on the SIG web site at www.bluetooth.com |
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