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News Release from: Open Interface North America
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 January 2006
Bluetooth and WiMedia come together at
CES
Alereon is hosting the industry's first public demonstration of Bluetooth+WiMedia UWB operating smoothly together under an existing Bluetooth software stack at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Demonstrating the next step in the on-going evolution of wireless personal area networking (PAN) functionality, Alereon is hosting the industry's first public demonstration of Bluetooth+WiMedia UWB operating smoothly together under an existing Bluetooth software stack The demonstration, held at the WiMedia Techzone at CES this week, uses Bluetusk software from Open Interface to send UWB signals using Bluetooth protocols
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Bluetusk represents a major step forward for both Bluetooth and WiMedia UWB", said Jim Lansford, Chief Technology Officer of Alereon "The combination of a WiMedia UWB solution from Alereon and Bluetooth software from Open Interface enables Bluetooth applications that run 500 times the speed of regular Bluetooth and use less than 2% of the battery energy of Bluetooth".
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"Consumers can now share images, phone books, videos, and the other Bluetooth content at up to 480Mbit/s, allowing devices such as megapixel camera phones to download in seconds, rather than minutes".
"As Bluetooth becomes a standard feature in portable devices it is apparent that although Bluetooth provides excellent interoperability and ease of use, the maximum datarate of 3Mbit/s is too slow for today's media centric applications", said Greg Burns, CTO of Open Interface.
"Combining Bluetooth and WiMedia UWB leverages Bluetooth's core strengths while providing the high data transfer rates for downloading image, MP3 and video files", The demonstration offers an initial view of this important wireless pairing and features two laptops, each enabled with a UWB module and Bluetooth dongle.
Delegates will first see a pure Bluetooth to Bluetooth demonstration with a file transfer between laptops that operates at a maximum rate of well under 3Mbit/s and takes several minutes.
Next, the UWB radios will use Open Interface's Bluetusk software solution to leverage the software stack of Bluetooth while operating the Alereon WiMedia radio.
Achieving up to 480Mbit/s, the file transfer happens almost instantaneously with Alereon's recently announced EVB4002 radio operating under the Bluetooth software stack.
"This demonstration is an excellent example of the founding design principles of the WiMedia Common Radio platform", said Stephen Wood, President of WiMedia.
"From the very outset, our objective was to create a wireless standard that supported TCP/IP, Certified Wireless USB, Bluetooth and Wireless 1394".
"The WiMedia standard, now called ECMA-368, is now an international standard recognised by ECMA".
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