Connect One Announces iChip Internet Controller To Support Switchable 802.11b WLAN and GPRS Functionality.Business/High-Tech Editors PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2002 New iChip Plus Functionality is Targeted at Mobile and Handheld Devices that Need High-Speed, Interchangeable Wide Area and Local Area Networking over a Wireless Connection Connect One(TM) announces its plan to introduce new functionality for its iChip Plus(TM) Internet Controller(TM) chip that will support the PRISM(R) 2 chip set from Intersil Corp. (Nasdaq:ISIL ISIL International Society for Individual Liberty ISIL Interim Support Items List ISIL Intelligence Systems Integration Laboratory (Ft. Huachuca, Arizona; US Army facility for integrating intelligence systems) ) for switchable 802.11b wireless LAN connectivity, in addition to iChip's current support for the rapidly growing worldwide General Packet Radio Service (GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. ) cellular network. This combined functionality is ideal for telematics, transportation and data collection applications that require wireless local area networking when operating within short distances and wireless wide area networking connectivity when on the road. "Wireless LAN support offers great benefits to our customers who are large trucking companies," says Luis Baptista, president of Aerotrade Lda., an engineering firm in Lisbon, Portugal that develops mobile video surveillance applications. "Our customers today use iChip and a Nokia 30 GPRS terminal to send live, high-resolution 30 kilobyte (thousand bytes). For technical specifications, it refers to 1,024 bytes. In general usage, it typically refers to an even one thousand bytes (see kilo). Also KB, Kbyte and K-byte. See space/time. (unit) kilobyte - (KB) 2^10 = 1024 bytes. See prefix. images from their trucks to the control room. With iChip's new functionality, their trucks will be able to log-on via WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network in the depot, and switch to GPRS connectivity when they go on the road. This will save our customers costly airtime." "Users of portable and mobile products can have the best of both worlds with switchable Wi-Fi and GPRS connectivity," said Alan Singer, Connect One vice president of sales and marketing. "It is perfect for devices such as fleet management terminals, handheld data collection terminals for couriers, video cameras, and the next generation of portable consumer electronic products." About iChip iChip is an updateable TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. coprocessor coprocessor Additional processor used in some personal computers to perform specialized tasks such as extensive arithmetic calculations or processing of graphical displays. that mediates the connection between a host processor and the Internet. It offloads Internet connectivity tasks from the host processor and connects to the Internet via dial-up modems, wireless phones or modems (AMPS, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. , CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) A low-speed, digital, wireless data network that is an enhancement to an existing analog cellular network. Based on IBM's CelluPlan II, CDPD provides a packet overlay onto the AMPS network and moves data at 19. , GPRS, GSM, IDEN, and TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). protocols), or 10/100BaseT Ethernet LANs and 802.11b wireless LANs. iChip works with GPRS modems from Siemens, Wavecom, Sony Ericsson and Nokia. Internet protocols and configuration parameters are stored in iChip's onboard flash memory, are independent of the host application, and can be remotely updated over the Internet. iChip interfaces to a device's host processor via a serial connection and Connect One's high-level AT+i(TM) Application Programming Interface, which enables manufacturers with limited Internet programming capability to quickly and easily Internet-enable their devices by writing just a few commands in their application. Pricing and Availability Connect One will release a reference design in Q1, 2003 in which iChip Plus and any GPRS modem can work alongside Intersil's PRISM 2 802.11b chip. iChip Plus is available in North America from Arrow Electronics (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ARW ARW Air Refueling Wing ARW Advanced Research Workshop ARW Associated Resume Writers ARW Army Ranger Wing (Irish Special Forces) ARW American Revolutionary War ARW Angle Random Walk ARW Aeroelastic Research Wing ), www.arrow.com. Please visit Connect One's Web site at www.connectone.com for a complete list of distributors worldwide. Suggested pricing for iChip Plus is $23 for over 10,000 units. About Connect One Connect One develops and manufactures chips, software, and hardware that enable manufacturers of industrial, commercial, medical and consumer devices to reduce the time, cost and complexity to connect devices to the Internet. Connect One is privately owned, with offices in Phoenix, AZ and Kfar Saba, Israel. For further information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.connectone.com or send an e-mail to info@connectone.com. iChip, iChip Emulator, Internet Controller, AT+i, and Connect One are trademarks of Connect One Ltd. PRISM is a registered trademark of Intersil Corp. |
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