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News Release from: Cambridge Consultants | Subject: DECT IP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 May 2004
IP puts DECT into 2.4GHz band
At WiCon next month in Amsterdam, Cambridge Consultants will demonstrate new silicon intellectual property that optimises DECT for use in the licence-free 2.4GHz ISM frequency band.
At WiCon next month in Amsterdam, Cambridge Consultants will demonstrate new silicon intellectual property that optimises DECT for use in the licence-free 2.4GHz ISM frequency band - making it ideal for worldwide markets including the USA where the usual 1.8-1.9GHz band is unavailable CCL has added proprietary interference-avoiding technology onto the DECT protocol to optimise it for use at 2.4GHz
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Cambridge Consultants' new IP library provides proven interoperable components that allow mixed-signal, wireless enabled, SoC or ASIC solutions to be reliably and rapidly configured.
With suitable low-cost radio chipsets already in existence, this new DECT platform offers considerable quality-of-service advantages compared with many existing USA cordless technologies, as well as alternative wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
The DECT protocol still offers an unmatched quality of wireless service in this arena.
Among its attributes are high-quality voice and data connections, a range of up to 300m, low battery power consumption, and seamless handover between basestations for mobility.
CCL's new silicon intellectual property extends DECT's capability by optimising the technology for use in the increasingly crowded 2.4GHz wireless space.
It employs a coexistence strategy based on a discovery algorithm that provides information on the current real-time usage of the spectrum by popular wireless systems, to determine the quietest channels for it to use.
"DECT continues to offer a very cost-effective and powerful platform for OEMs", says Tim Whittaker, Cambridge Consultants' Wireless Enabled Products Group Leader.
"In addition to its obvious applications in cordless telephony, it's ideal for wireless-enabling equipment wherever quality of service and mobility is paramount, such as in medical and industrial equipment".
Cambridge Consultants has worked on DECT applications for many years and has a rich IP portfolio for this wireless technology, including a complete protocol stack that it will customise for OEMs.
The IP is installed in numerous applications today, running on DECT chipsets from National Semiconductor and Philips.
Cambridge Consultants will be at Booth 613 at Wireless Connectivity (WiCon) World, from 8th to 10th June 2004 at the Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands.
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