WiCon World Review

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WiCon World Review

INCISOR REVIEW ISSUE
TM
NEWS FROM THE BLUETOOTH™ AND SHORT RANGE RF ENVIRONMENT
ISSUE 71
IN INCISOR THIS MONTH
Welcome to the second of two Incisor special issues
dedicated to Wireless Connectivity World Europe.
We now know just how well the revised format has
worked for the show that was Bluetooth Congress.
Our story across provides you with Incisor’s
summary of our own views, and those of the many
companies and individuals that we spoke to at the
event. Perhaps the single most common view was
that while numbers at the show were not huge, the
quality of attendees was high. Read our overview for
more information
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY WORLD 2004
Our normal format changes for this review issue,
which is almost wholly made up of news stories
from the event. We are also including a number of
short ‘vignettes’ (mini-interviews!), taking views
from executives that we met with from various of
the wireless industries represented at the show.
Now that we are back from the Amsterdam show
our programme of editorial and commercial activity
for the autumn and winter periods starts. Its only 5
months until Wireless Connectivity World America, do
you realise! Incisor is ramping up its programme,
and launching more and more ambitious projects
that will provide a comprehensive insight into
wireless developments around the world. See page
two for details. If you want to be part of these, talk
to us now.
Vince Holton
Publisher/Editor-in-chief
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)1730 895614
Features:
Bluetooth industry news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-16
Home entertainment – Bluetooth style:
Simon Finch, CSR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Busting out of the phone – Bluetooth takes aim at
vertical markets
Robert Ragusano, SMART Modular Technologies . . .11
Wireless industry intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . .17-22
WLAN industry news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17-19
ZigBee news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20-21
DECT news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Interviews:
Johan Åkesson,
Ericsson Technology Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Yaron Moradi, Flextronics Semiconductor . . . . . .13
Bob Heile, ZigBee Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Erich Kamperschroer, DECT Forum . . . . . . . . . . .22
Interactive directory of Bluetooth companies . . .24
Wireless industry calendar of events . . . . . . . . .25
Incisor review
Incisor magazine is back from Wireless
Connectivity World - now Europe's largest
standalone wireless event - which took place
in Amsterdam just over a week ago. For those
of our readers that were not able to make it to
the show, this issue of Incisor is entirely
dedicated to news, events and announcements
from the show.
We will also take this opportunity to provide our
own shap-shot view of the state of the wireless
market – and specifically how companies in the
industry appear to be facing the challenge of
spreading their messages to the industry, and to the
outside world.
In the run up to Wi-Con, and at the event itself, it
was clear that there has been a perceivable
resurgence in activity amongst wireless companies.
From Incisor's perspective, this was a very successful
period. Not only were we well blessed with news and
announcements for our Wi-Con preview issue, but
commercially too. Both of our special issues have
included a healthy percentage of advertising,
sponsored material and associated PR.. Most
encouraging was commercial support from new
companies from within the Bluetooth sector such as
ST Microelectronics, Avantwave, etc, and from
outside, too - thank you, the DECT Forum, for
example!
What is more, our diary was packed full of
meetings with companies large and small. With
Incisor's expanded editorial coverage, many of the
larger companies that we have worked with on
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Show news
Bluetooth developments are now keen to extend our
co-operation to include other business units involved
in WLAN, ZigBee, UWB etc. This is good news for both
Incisor and its clients.
Whilst the growth in marketing activity was not felt
yet in the overall number of sponsor/exhibitor
companies attending Wi-Con, there were certainly
some new faces. Organiser IBC had been successful
in adding a presence from the DECT, UWB, Zigbee and
WLAN industries to the familiar faces from the
Bluetooth community.
A move to a different hall at Amsterdam’s RAI
exhibition centre provided IBC with more floorspace to
play with. They would probably have wished for this to
have been jam-packed with exhibitors, but instead
were able to provide a good selection of casual
seating and refreshment areas. From the visitors point
of view this was a welcome development, as – for
once – it was possible to find somewhere to sit within
a few paces of wherever you were. Perfect for the
foot-sore, and those carrying out ad hoc meetings.
Visitor levels seemed to be on a par with 2003
numbers, which some would say is a success. Our
opinion is that is simply the case that outside of the
Bluetooth industry, not enough people know about
this show. If IBC can promote the show more
aggressively, to a wider audience, then we feel that
Wi-Con can establish an important position for itself
on the annual event calendar. After all, there is no
other exclusively wireless show in Europe. In
conversation with IBC director Gavin Whitechurch as
we prepared to return to the UK, this commitment
seems to be there.
For both IBC and Incisor magazine, the activity now
ramps up in connection with the US sister event –
Wireless Connectivity World America – which takes
place in Santa Clara, California in November. See below
for details of Incisor’s programme to the end of 2004.
Vince Holton, Editor-in-chief/publisher
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)1730 895614
INCISOR PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
FOR Q3/Q4 2004:
Time rushes on, and no sooner will we have
finished this issue, we will start working on the
Q3/Q4 programme of events starting in July
and running through to year end.
The major winter event - Wireless Connectivity
World Americas has been moved a month forward
to November, meaning that our schedule is now
tighter than previously.
We will be contacting wireless industry
companies to discuss their marketing plans to and
through this event, and to expand upon our own
activities. These include:
● Marketing package offers for the July -
December period
● Wireless in California – In this special issue,
Incisor reviews and profiles wireless companies
in the USA’s silicon state
● Wireless in Scandinavia – Incisor on tour visits
Europe’s wireless hot spot
● Special WLAN / ZigBee / DECT / UWB overview
issues
● Special issues associated with Wireless
Connectivity World Americas
● INCISOR WIRELESS PRESS EVENT - We will
stage the next in our programme of VIP press
days alongside Wi-Con Americas. Many of you
will be familiar with this prestigious PR event,
and will have participated in the past. If this
programme is new to you, and you need
details now, contact Incisor now (see above).
This is just a selection of the activities we will be
involved in. If you wish to discuss any aspect of
your marketing programme, and how it can be
linked with Incisor's activities, then contact Vince
Holton now.
Bluetooth shipments hit 2 million/week
At Wi-Con the Bluetooth Special Interest Group
(BSIG) celebrated the fact that Bluetooth wireless
technology has reached another milestone –
shipments of products with the technology now
exceed two million units per week worldwide.
This comes less than nine months after
surpassing the one million per week mark with
mobile phones, PDAs, notebooks and mobile
accessories being the key drivers for the
continued surge in shipments.
As reported in the Wi-Con preview issue of Incisor,
the BSIG also announced the launch of what it called
a new ‘prototype’ specification named “Enhanced
Data Rate” (EDR). The new specification will provide
faster data transmissions and improve the user
experience though higher transmission speeds and
even lower power consumption, providing a platform
for data transfer speeds of up to three times current
levels. The new specification also provides improved
facilities to use several functions or devices
simultaneously, due to more available bandwidth.
EDR is backwards compatible with the previous
specifications, and the BSIG expects the EDR
specification to be finalised in fall 2004, with products
based upon the specification available in 2005.
“We at the SIG are constantly talking to our
members about how we can continue to drive up
adoption rates. In recent months, what we’ve seen
has been phenomenal. The market is now embracing
the technology and consumers are developing
creative platforms on which to fully exploit the
technology with many new applications that allow
users to wirelessly connect and transfer information
between devices, at work, at home or in their car,”
said Anders Edlund, Marketing Director of the
Bluetooth SIG. “People are now seeing that Bluetooth
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wireless technology is not a geeky toy or a corporate
luxury, but rather the only short-range, global
standard for linking wireless products in a convenient
and easy to use way.”
The BSIG’s statement also included a comment
from Motorola, indicating the company’s assessment
of growth in interest. “Bluetooth has become a key
component of our mobile environment in a short
period of time,” said Bruce Hawver, vice president and
general manager of companion products for
Motorola’s Personal Communications Sector. “Twelve
months ago Bluetooth was a periphery to our core
proposition, but now it’s becoming an essential
component. Today Bluetooth can be found in a rapidly
increasing number of mobile phones as well as in
many new exciting accessories ranging from
motorcycle helmets to car kits to stereo speakers.”
Show news continued
Broadcom feeds Bluetooth
mobile phone market
Broadcom announced integration of its
Bluetooth protocol stack into its mobile phone
software platform. The company provides
highly integrated semiconductor solutions
enabling broadband communications. With
what Broadcom claims is the widest range of
Bluetooth application usage profiles available,
the new software will enable manufacturers of
EDGE/GPRS/GSM cellular phones based on
Broadcom chips to easily add Bluetooth to their
handset designs. The Widcomm softwarerecently acquired by Broadcom-will ensure
broad interoperability between mobile phones
and other Bluetooth devices.
The Bluetooth software platform has been fully
integrated with Broadcom's cellular protocol stack,
drivers, and user interface phone software that
ships with the BCM2132 EDGE and BCM2121
GPRS cellular baseband processors. Broadcom
supplies cellular chips to Sony Ericsson, Ningbo
Bird, and PalmONE.
"Broadcom is driving the accelerated adoption of
Bluetooth in cellular phones, having established
ourselves as leaders in the space with our
products targeted at the CDMA phone market
several years ago," said Scott Bibaud, director of
marketing for Broadcom's Bluetooth products.
Broadcom marketing director – Scott Bibaud
"Our new integrated software platform extends our
leadership into the markets for EDGE/GPRS/GSM
phones, allowing handset manufacturers to add
Bluetooth into their phones without significantly
increasing their internal engineering capabilities or
costs. Our integrated protocol stack and reference
designs enable new features like music streaming
and advanced camera functionality, bringing a
much richer Bluetooth experience to the mobile
phone."
With the new solution, Broadcom feels that its
customers and development partners will require
minimal development effort to add Bluetooth to
their products, a significant advantage given the
handset industry's short product lives and
demanding development cycles: only minimal user
interface software development is needed to
complete their designs.
Broadcom's integration of the protocol stack
partners the company's EDGE solution with its
Bluetooth silicon, allowing mobile device
manufacturers to more fully expose the benefits of
EDGE/GPRS's high data rates to end-users.
Bluetooth-enabled PCs, notebook computers and
PDAs can now connect to the high-speed "always
on" connections provided.
The new EDGE/GPRS/GSM software platform that
integrates Broadcom's Bluetooth protocol stack is
available now and will begin shipping in phones
using the BCM2121 and BCM2132 basebands
starting in the third quarter of this year.
Dspfactory launches headset,
streaming audio solution
Ontario, Canada-based Dspfactory Ltd is
probably best known as a provider of ultra-low
power digital signal processing (DSP)
technology for digital hearing aids, wireless
headsets and other portable audio devices. At
Wi-Con the company announced that its
single-chip BelaSigna 200 audio processing
system is now available with bundled signal
processing algorithms that have been
optimised
for
use
in
Bluetooth
telecommunication and streaming audio
applications.
According to Dspfactory, manufacturers of
Bluetooth wireless devices are using BelaSigna
200 to deliver advanced audio processing in
power- and size-constrained devices, such as
telecom and stereo audio headsets. A growing
number of these manufacturers are apparently
developing or porting their own algorithms to the
BelaSigna 200 platform or are using algorithms
created for BelaSigna 200 by an international
network of third-party developers.
Dspfactory says that the announcement gives
OEMs and ODMs a third option -- implementing a
complete DSP-based audio processing solution
using BelaSigna 200 with bundled algorithms from
Dspfactory.
"Many manufacturers either don't have signal
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processing expertise internally, or are looking to
reduce their development time by using a
complete, proven DSP solution with integrated
hardware and software," said Todd Schneider,
Dspfactory's vice president of technology. "We
created these bundles to make it easy for
manufacturers to develop high-quality DSPenabled devices, and get them to market quickly."
Show news continued
Ericsson paves way for Bluetooth
stereo headsets
Ericsson Technology Licensing has added
to its line of highly optimized Bluetooth
Suites. The new package has been
assembled for the benefit of OEMs who are
looking to develop a whole new type of
headset, the Bluetooth Stereo Headset.
The company believes that the ever-growing
demand for multimedia products and services,
particularly within the mobile phone industry,
will continue to give rise to new types of
products.
"Mobile phone makers today are competing to
see who can pack the most multimedia features
into new products," says Johan Åkesson, vice
president marketing at Ericsson Technology
Licensing. "Streaming audio and video, built-in
MP3 players, MMS, video call, etc., all create a
strong case for Bluetooth headsets that can
function as stereo headphones as well."
Ericsson's new Bluetooth Stereo Headset Suite
is a complete package for developing advanced
headset applications. These applications will
enable a device functioning as stereo
headphones to instantaneously switch to
headset functionality, for example when
receiving an incoming call.
The Ericsson Core Bluetooth Stereo Headset
Software B-F7 included in the suite is based on
Ericsson's Microstack, a scaled down software
stack optimised for easy integration into
products with limited resources such as the
headset. An SBC codec and all profiles required
for headset/headphone applications are also
included, as well as example applications that
help developers minimise development time.
The Bluetooth Stereo Headset Suite joins a
family of other Ericsson suites optimized
specifically for mobile phones, headsets, PDAs
and wireless keyboards and mice.
gigaAnt antenna used
for BlipNode
gigaAnt, which provides optimum antenna
solutions, announced that BLIP Systems A/S
will buy Flavus 2.4 GHz antenna from
gigaAnt for its Bluetooth-enabled network.
BLIP Systems is a company that grew out of
Ericsson Networks in Denmark, following a
management buy-out of the BlipNet product.
The BlipNode is a small, easy to install access
point supporting a number of Bluetooth profiles,
capable of long range high-speed Bluetooth
data access. BlipNet is the network that uses the
BlipNode. Typical applications for BlipNet
include indoor positioning, hot-spot services,
office environment and payment systems.
"We are excited about the opportunity to
support BLIP Systems with antennas and
implementation experience", says Patrik
Byhmer, vice president, marketing and sales,
gigaAnt, continuing "The BlipNet is a widely
applicable Bluetooth infrastructure hence I'm
convinced that the service including the
BlipNode will be a huge success for connecting
small personal devices."
"gigaAnt has much experience in the antenna
field and can provide us with the outstanding
and timely service we need", comments Peter
Knudsen, general manager at BLIP Systems.
"The BlipNet and the BlipNode depend on high
performance and stable transmission,
something gigaAnt can help us to achieve".
…and releases Impexa micro antenna’
Also at Wi-Con, a new micro antenna called
Impexa has been introduced by gigaAnt for
2.4 GHz applications such as Bluetooth and
Wi-Fi. Measuring only 6.1x3.9x1.0 mm - less
than half the size of the popular Rufa antenna,
Impexa is specifically designed for easy
assembly on printed circuit boards (PCBs) with
SMD technology. The combination of size and
performance makes this antenna ideal for
space-restricted applications like headsets and
adapters.
The antenna comes in two variants, left and
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right, for flexible placement and ease of
assembly. It is suitable for headset- and
adapter applications where the product size
cannot be compromised.
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Show news continued
National Semiconductor introduces next-gen
automotive connectivity processors
National Semiconductor Corporation introduced
four next-generation connectivity processors to
connect different types of devices in automobiles
via wide-area, local-area or personal-area
networks.
The new connectivity processors integrate Bluetooth
wireless technology, controller area network (CAN) and
universal serial bus (USB) interfaces with additional software
to accelerate development of telematics applications such
as handsfree communication devices and information and
entertainment devices such as off-board automotive GPS
navigation systems. The connectivity processors also can be
used in consumer, medical and industrial applications such
as remote sensors or personal health data loggers.
For wireless applications, the CP3000 processors include
a fully embedded
Bluetooth interface with
baseband processing, a
host protocol stack and
dedicated profiles. These
new products include a
complete package of
hardware, software with
Bluetooth profiles in
pre-qualified source
code, development tools
Nat Semi addresses automotive
and worldwide technical
market with new processors
support.
Additional
features include a high-resolution, 12-bit analog-to-digital
converter, additional serial interfaces and increased memory.
“National shares a vision with its customers of
increasingly ubiquitous connectivity in cars,” said Malcolm
Humphrey, director of National Semiconductor’s Device
Connectivity Division. “National’s new CP3000 devices
address the latest off-board navigation and vehicle gateway
requirements.”
The CP3BT23, CP3BT26, CP3UB26 and CP3CN23
connectivity processors feature National's CompactRISC 16bit microcontroller core and on-chip peripherals. Each
processor features 256 kilobytes of on-chip Flash, 32
kilobytes of on-chip static RAM, an additional 8 kilobytes of
on-chip data Flash and the ability to address up to 12
megabytes of external memory. All of the new CP3000
connectivity processors are available now.
Cambridge Consultants helps Bluetooth
users see the light
The development consultancy Cambridge Consultants
Ltd (CCL) demonstrated a standards-based solution for
radio-enabling products and equipment at WiCon, using
Bluetooth.
Commenting that Bluetooth has now mastered its initial
target applications, CCL predicted that the maturity and
economy of the commercial silicon will start opening up
niche markets in appliance control - especially in situations
where consumers can exploit the widely-available Bluetooth
capability that exists on mobile phones and PDAs.
To illustrate the point, CCL demonstrated remote lighting
control from a standard Bluetooth mobile phone. The
demonstration exploited the OBEX (object exchange) Profile
to transmit control data - an application software layer that
almost all Bluetooth-compatible phones and PDAs
implement.
"Bluetooth represents a major here-and-now opportunity
for OEMs," says Tim Whittaker, Cambridge Consultants'
Wireless Enabled Products group leader. "Single-chip radios
equipped with a microcontroller are now available for well
below $5, and the technology is commonplace on mobile
devices such as phones and PDAs. It could be many years
before alternative short-range wireless technologies appear
on mobile devices."
CCL says that Bluetooth is ideal for building remote control
applications wherever infrared handsets face difficulties,
such as controlling a set-top box from a different room. Its
seven-node network capability also provides scope for
linking small groups of sensors or devices.
Such uses for Bluetooth were touted in the early days of the
technology. Since that time other solutions have appeared,
claiming lower power consumption, larger numbers of nodes,
lower prices etc. While other companies promote ZigBee and
DECT solutions in similar applications (see elsewhere in this
issue), it will be interesting to see whether readily available
Bluetooth can succeed in grabbing market share.
Brainboxes adopts v1.2 Bluetooth firmware from CSR
Brainboxes announced that the company is updating
its Bluetooth hardware to be compliant with the latest
version of the Bluetooth specification (v1.2). Brainboxes
is now using v1.2 firmware from Bluetooth silicon
vendor CSR. The move to v1.2 will give Brainboxes all of
the advantages of the improved Bluetooth specification
whilst retaining full backwards compatibility with
existing Bluetooth equipment.
In bringing v1.2 support to its hardware, Brainboxes is also
making it possible for software developers to use Brainboxes
hardware for their software development.
By selecting CSR's BlueCore firmware, Brainboxes, and
developers using Brainboxes Bluetooth hardware, will be
able to implement some of the optional v1.2 features such
as eSCO (extended synchronous connectionless oriented an enhancement for Bluetooth voice connections) and
scatternet support (connecting together numerous smaller
networks, called piconets, to allow up to 256 devices to
interconnect).
Brainboxes Bluetooth hardware has always been based on
CSR BlueCore and Brainboxes is a partner in CSR's partner
program - a network of third parties working with CSR to
provide real-time advantages to Bluetooth customers
around the world.
“CSR was at the heart of the very first v1.2 qualified
products and customers are already adopting our v1.2
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BlueCore devices and firmware, commented Clive ChelsomPill, Commercial Manager of CSR. "Products from credible
suppliers such as Brainboxes, will speed up the uptake of
the new standard and the benefits it brings the user."
Eamonn Walsh, managing director of Brainboxes, added,
“We have had a lot of success with our full range of
Brainboxes Bluetooth adapters - especially with the work we
have been doing to bring customised wireless solutions to
our customers' industrial applications.” Walsh continued,
“CSR's firmware is the most tried and tested. We are
confident that the enhancements in v1.2 will be well
received by our customers.”
Home entertainment Bluetooth style
by Simon Finch, CSR
CSR took the opportunity to demonstrate
an innovative Bluetooth-enabled home
entertainment centre at WiCon World 2004.
Produced as a fully working concept model
to highlight the advantages of an allBluetooth, single-box solution, the system
attracted considerable attention.
Despite all that we hear about ‘convergence’,
the scene beneath the TV in a typical domestic
environment invariably smacks of chaos. Apart
from the ubiquitous VTR, which still has a place
in many home installations, there will almost
certainly be a set-top box for digital TV channels
and a DVD player. Quite probably there will also
be a CD player, an FM radio tuner and maybe an
audio-visual control centre and some form of
games console. All quite separate,
interconnected by wire, and controlled by
individual infra-red remotes.
Given this scenario, it is no surprise that the
market for home entertainment centres is
beginning to take off, with at least eight
manufacturers already shipping PC-based
products running Microsoft's Media Center
edition of Windows XP. There's certainly no
denying that holding all digital media in one
place and then making it available to peripherals
such as TVs, speakers and printers using a
single remote control is the way to go. But do
such systems necessarily need to be PCcentric? Since all current PC-based home
entertainment centres are designed to be used
in conjunction with a separate set-top box
running its own embedded operating system,
the approach has a degree of technical overkill.
This is compounded by the fact that some settop boxes, such as the excellent Sky+ units
produced by various manufacturers, also
incorporate large-capacity hard drives to enable
users to pause and rewind live TV.
CSR believes that the potential market for
home entertainment systems is large enough to
accommodate various approaches, and that it is
unlikely that any one hardware platform or
operating system will dominate the scene. But a
product that incorporated everything that was
needed in a single remote-controlled box would
have considerable consumer appeal, especially
if it used the optimum technology for the task
and provided users with a rewarding and
hassle-free experience.
Many home entertainment systems still use
wired connections for various peripherals such
as game pads, printers and stereo headphones.
However, since a key aim of such systems is to
dispense with as much cable clutter around the
home as possible, and make everything
controllable from the comfort of a sofa, a
growing number of peripherals appearing on the
market are battery-powered cordless devices.
Typically, these include keyboard, mouse and
remote controls. These use proprietary radio
frequency or infrared links to communicate with
the PC, which means that users are likely to get
through batteries at a considerable rate.
Furthermore, some of the infrared links are
notoriously slow, which can make even basic
functions such as channel changing very
tedious. It is in areas such as this that Bluetooth
comes into its own, to enhance user experience.
The technology is perfect for battery-powered
wireless devices, since it spends most of the
time in 'sleep' mode and only consumes power
while the device is awake. And if the home
entertainment system is going to contain a
Bluetooth radio, even mains-powered
peripherals such as printers might as well be
fitted with inexpensive Bluetooth dongles,
simply to eliminate cable clutter.
These factors led CSR – working with an MSI
PC – to develop a fully working concept model,
to demonstrate the advantages that Bluetooth
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brings to home entertainment centres. This
takes the form of an exceptionally compact
control console incorporating a digital TV tuner,
large-capacity hard drive, DVD/CD drives with
read/write capability and an FM tuner. It is
equipped with a multi-format interface that
accepts all standard digital camera storage
media, a FireWire interface for fast download of
footage from a digital video camera, and
Ethernet for wide area networking. Typically, the
WAN connection would be made via a wireless
Ethernet-to-ADSL router or gateway.
CSR's Bluetooth-enabled home entertainment
system is virtually wire-free; apart from power,
Ethernet and TV/radio signal inputs, the only
connections are to a TV. In addition to driving
standard CRT-based TVs, the console provides
VGA/DVI outputs for flat-screen LCDs, together
with SVGA and component video outputs for TV
projectors. An audio output is available for
feeding a conventional (wired) amplifier, but the
console also provides a Bluetooth output for
wireless surround sound speakers. In addition to
Bluetooth links for peripherals such as mouse,
keyboard, game pads and stereo headphones,
the console also provides Bluetooth links for
mobile phones, PDAs, web pads and laptops. So
as well as recording, storing, and copying video
and audio in the digital domain, browsing the
web and playing games, users can now
synchronise all their contacts and appointments
data, and operate a central repository for all
home email.
In volume manufacture, the Bluetooth enabled
home entertainment system could probably be
produced for much the same cost as a digital
video recorder - much of the technology is
obviously the same. Apart from the powersaving benefits of Bluetooth, a further key
advantage of this approach is that only one
remote control is needed for the entire system.
CSR will be producing an example design for
this in the near future, enabling manufacturers
to accelerate their entry into what looks set to
be a highly profitable market.
Simon Finch is VP Strategic Marketing
(Software) with CSR. He can be reached via
[email protected]
Sponsored contribution
Extended Systems certified
Extended Systems announced that the
Bluetooth Special Interest Group (BSIG) has
qualified the company's Bluetooth software
development kits for both embedded and
Windows CE environments as compliant with
the recently released 1.2 core specification.
Extended Systems' Bluetooth software
development kits provide the underlying profiles
and protocol stacks that make Bluetooth
wireless communications possible in both
embedded and Windows CE environments.
New profiles qualified for XTNDAccess Blue
SDK, which is the company's embedded
solution,
include
Bluetooth
Network
Encapsulation Profile (BNEP), SIM Access Profile
(SAP), and Hands-Free Profile (HFP). New
profiles qualified for XTNDConnect Blue SDK for
Windows CE include Hard-copy Replacement
Profile (HCRP) and Personal Area Networking
(PAN).
"Pre-qualification enables our customers to
skip many of the laborious steps required to
ensure compliance with the SIG's specification,"
said Kerrin Pease, vice president of research
and development at Extended Systems. "In
addition, in a market that has recently seen
tremendous consolidation and volatility, this
release indicates our commitment to our
embedded mobility products and helps us
maintain our leading position in delivering
quality Bluetooth software to the market."
Extended Systems has more than 400 design
wins including Palm, Motorola, HP, 3Com,
Fujitsu, NEC, Mitsubishi, Johnson Controls and
Visteon.
… supplies Bluetooth protocol
stack for Palm OS
In addition to its work in the CE
environment, Extended Systems announced
that PalmSource has licensed the company’s
XTNDAccess Blue SDK version 2.0, which
complies with the recently announced
Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) 1.2
specification, supporting coexistence of
Bluetooth communications alongside 802.11.
PalmSource has licensed Extended Systems’
solution in order to provide Bluetooth
functionality to its Palm OS licensees for the
creation of next-generation smartphones and
wireless devices.
"PalmSource is committed to providing its
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licensee community with the largest selection
of wireless solutions to accelerate the market
delivery of products that fit specific
customers’ needs." said Charlie Tritschler,
vice president of PalmSource.
XTNDAccess Blue SDK version 2.0 is
available immediately.
Johan Akesson
VP Marketing,
Ericsson Technology Licensing
WI-CON VIGNETTE
Despite being the victim of an Amsterdam
bag-snatcher (your reporter was present
when an opportunist thief made away with his
computer bag containing a notebook PC and
other valuables), Ericsson Technology
Licensing’s marketing VP Johan Åkesson was
in positive form at the show the following day
when he and mar com manager Bodil
Lundgren met with Incisor.
Perhaps this was as a result of Ericsson moving
into the publishing business? As reported in the
Wi-Con preview issue of Incisor, Ericsson has
launched the Blue Pages, a directory of Bluetooth
companies. “All around the world, when people
are looking for a product or service, they pick up
a copy of the Yellow Pages,” said Åkesson. “For
some time we have been formulating an idea to
provide OEM’s with a Bluetooth solution guide,
with solutions divided by segment. The Blue
Pages are just this. As time goes by we will
develop the guide, adding sections such as
Automotive and HID.”
Ericsson was keen to make sure that all entries
were valid. “Products included in the guide must
really exist – we won’t include ‘paper-ware’. So
Åkesson says ‘life is suite’, even without a PC
far feedback from the market has been very
good.”
We asked Åkesson what else Ericsson was
involved in at this time. “In addition to creating the
Blue Pages, we are continuing to expand our
software suite portfolio. We have just added the
Bluetooth Stereo Headset suite, for example,
which – as is always the case – is a complete
hardware and software package, plus all of the
required services around it (Ed.- See ‘Ericsson
paves way for Bluetooth stereo headsets’
elsewhere in this issue). Audio is very hot at the
moment, and we have found that the ‘suite’
concept does work. Our previous offerings have
been well received.”
Since its creation, the Ericsson Technology
Licensing company has operated a little further
back from the limelight, and from the intense
hype of the early Bluetooth days. Does this mean
that the company’s profile has slipped, and are
sales matching expectations? Åkesson was
forthright in his response “Our business is
developing according to our plan, and enjoying
steady growth. Royalties are a very important
revenue stream,. We feel we are in a very strong
position as the only remaining IP provider with a
proven solution..”
While there may be challengers to this position,
few would question Ericsson’s provenance as a
primary source of Bluetooth solutions and
expertise.
New leader for Ericsson's
Bluetooth company
A speaking opportunity at an Ericsson
customer event at Wi-Con presented Incisor’s
Vince Holton with his first opportunity to meet
with Thomas Norén, who, from May 15th, took
over as President of Ericsson Technology
Licensing. Thomas joined Ericsson in 1999
and has been involved in the roll-out of 3G
systems and services, holding various
executive management positions throughout
the years.
Thomas replaces Maria Khorsand, who, after 17
years with Ericsson, is joining OM HEX, where she
has been appointed President of the Financial
Markets business area. OM HEX provides services
and solutions for companies in the world's
financial and energy markets. Incisor enjoyed a
good relationship with Maria and sends best
wishes for the new job at OM HEX.
Incisor also wishes Thomas well in his new role
at the top of the Ericsson Bluetooth company.
Thomas Norén, new president at Ericsson Technology Licensing
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Busting out of the phone:
Bluetooth takes aim at
vertical markets
By Robert Ragusano, SMART Modular Technologies, Inc.
Bluetooth has found a great niche in mobile
phone, PC, PDA, and automotive and
applications. But the real beauty of Bluetooth
is that it can be easily designed into new
industrial, medical, and consumer products
with limited impact to footprint and power
consumption. And, Bluetooth functionality
can be quickly added to existing products,
such as printers, scanners, and medical
equipment, by using adapters. Analysts and
manufacturers generally agree that market
uptake has been good in the traditional
wireless LAN and mobile phone markets, and
Bluetooth is now poised to make a major
impact in the so called “vertical markets,”
including embedded systems, industrial and
medical markets, and even new consumer
markets.
In fact, Bluetooth is already making its way up
the system food chain. According to InStat/MDR,
although the vast majority of Bluetooth chipset
shipments in the past have been up to the host
controller interface (HCI) level, this will migrate
to solutions that include all of the embedded
upper stack elements.i
Manufacturers already working in these
market segments have a competitive
advantage, because there is a learning curve in
terms of what the needs and requirements are
for the vast array of potential applications in
these markets. For instance, conducting failure
analysis on manufacturing equipment from a
PDA on a plant floor is very different from linking
one’s notebook to a PC or printer.
One important secret to success in embedded,
industrial, and medical markets will be in the
software. By allowing an OEM to offload all or
most of its software into the Bluetooth module,
Bluetooth suppliers can give their customers a
leg up on their competition and reduce design
complexity. Increasingly, OEMs are looking for
modules that do more than HCI-level support,
and ICs with a strong microprocessor core are
making their way into the non-PC, PDA, mobile
phone, and mono headset markets. These more
powerful processors have enough overhead to
handle third-party operating systems and
encryption software for specific applications such as bar code scanning, patient data
collection, or remote meter reading.
In addition to an on-board processor, Bluetooth
modules for these markets can also benefit from
integrated connectors, edge connectors,
integrated antennas, surface mount packaging,
and the flexibility of Class 1 or Class 2 operation
when appropriate.
Recently SMART Modular Technologies
teamed with Zeevo to create a Bluetooth module
with an on-board ARM 7 core processor. SMART
will be manufacturing the new modules, which
are known to current Zeevo customers as
BlueStamp. The two companies will team up to
design and build the next-generation BlueStamp
product, providing SMART customers with
access to a Bluetooth module with on-board
processing. In addition, SMART will apply the
technology for integrated antennas and
connectors that it recently developed for its
90191 product line to the new BlueStamp
module. Even with these new enhancements,
the new BlueStamp module will have the same
footprint as the previous generation that was
offered directly by Zeevo.
Technological advances such as these have
opened up new consumer markets for Bluetooth
as well. For example, the popularity of Bluetooth
headsets for mobile phones strongly suggests
that consumers would accept similar headsets
for audio. The challenge in this non-traditional
wireless consumer market has been the need
for transmission of high-quality audio sound,
which has much tighter specifications than
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simple voice. Manufacturers looking for the next
Bluetooth market sweet spot will surely be
working in the audio space as well, integrating
an audio codec into Bluetooth ICs and modules
for MP3 and other audio applications.
While it is always challenging to identify and
quantify emerging markets, recent analyst data
suggests strong growth potential in these
vertical and new consumer markets for
Bluetooth - from simple cable replacement to
more complex remote analysis and operation.
Overall, Bluetooth enabled manufactured
equipment is expected to experience a 60%
CAGR between 2003 and 2008, and InStat/MDR expects that this will include a wide
variety of products, including telematics
systems, digital audio players, game devices,
stereo systems, and wireless speakers.ii
Specifically, the market research firm expects
that vertical markets for Bluetooth “will grow
aggressively to over 2 million deployed
Bluetooth nodes worldwide in 2007, and,
although there is activity in a great variety of
applications and vertical markets, healthcare
and manufacturing present the greatest
opportunities in the near term.” iii
So, market forces and industry interest may
indeed enable Bluetooth to leap out of the
mobile phone faster than we expected. Soon you
will not only see Bluetooth in mobile phones,
PCs and automobiles, but also in hospitals,
factories and audio devices like MP3 players.
i
ii
iii
Bluetooth 2003: Are PMGs Another Driver?,
July 2003, In-Stat/MDR.
Bluetooth 2004: Poised for the Mainstream.
April 2004. In-Stat/MDR
Manufacturing & Healthcare Dominate Bluetooth
Vertical Markets, April 2003, In-Stat/MDR.
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Xemics makes
Bluetooth easier
Xemics announced a new device based on
the Embedded-Host Architecture in its
EasyBlue family. This programmable
microcontroller with embedded Bluetooth
controller is intended to make the
development of any Bluetooth application
easier.
The core of the XE1431 is the Xemics
Bluetooth Controller that is combined with a
programmable 8 bit microcontroller with several
standard peripherals like GPIO's, a high speed
UART, an audio CODEC and a power
management unit. The embedded Bluetooth
controller independently executes significant
parts of the Bluetooth protocol stack and allows
the development of application layer software
without the need to validate the Bluetooth
protocol stack integrity. A very low cost external
serial Flash memory is used to store the
customers’ application layer software. Xemics
says that thanks to this Embedded-Host
Architecture, even Bluetooth beginners are able
enhance any data and voice application with this
communication technology.
"By putting significant parts of the Bluetooth
stack in ROM, Xemics' XE1431 makes any
external parallel Flash memory superfluous and
has finally solved the difficulty of providing a
cost and performance optimized Bluetooth
device", said Remy Pache, VP Marketing of
Xemics. "This allows our customers to keep
abreast of the latest Bluetooth technology
through software updates for the higher
Bluetooth stack as well as the application layer",
he added.
The XE1431 supports the typical Bluetooth
profiles used in portable peripheral applications
including Headset/Handsfree, Human Interface
Device Profile, Serial Port Profile, File Transfer
Profile. As part of its solution strategy, Xemics
provides application examples and reference
designs for these applications.
… licenses Skyworks’ Bluetooth
transceiver
Xemics also announced that the company
has agreed to license Skyworks Solutions
Inc.’s ultra-low-power Bluetooth radio
transceiver to complement Xemics’ Bluetooth
offering. Xemics and Skyworks collaborated
on several Bluetooth designs, combining
Skyworks’ SKY723x3 radio frequency (RF)
transceiver with Xemics' XE1400 series
Bluetooth baseband controllers. The licensing of
Skyworks’ Bluetooth IP will enable Xemics to
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provide a complete Bluetooth solution and to
further enhance the radio transceivers.
Skyworks’ SKY723x3 transceivers are
manufactured through a silicon germanium
(SiGe) BiCMOS process.
Yaron Moradi
VP Sales & Marketing,
Flextronics Semiconductor
WI-CON VIGNETTE
Flextronics Semiconductor acquired
Brightcom during 2003 and now splits its
business between selling Bluetooth chips
and developing software. Its Bluetooth
modules are currently on sale in the USA
and the Far East with an imminent
availability in Europe.
“On the silicon side we sell Bluetooth modules,
which may be populated with Flextronics silicon
or that of other manufacturers such as ST
Microelectronics,” said Yaron Moradi, VP of sales
& marketing for the Israeli company. “We make
conquest sales over, say, CSR modules as our
BOM cost is lower, and we are the only company
to be able to offer wireless mobile printing from
any phone to any USB printer.”
It is this side of its business – the software it
has developed for Bluetooth wireless printing –
that was one of the main thrusts of Flextronics’
marketing activity at Wi-Con. “This will be a
huge industry,” said Moradi. “18 billion digital
images were printed in 2003, and 75% of these
were in homes. 5% of these were from camera
phones, and this is forecast to rise to 25% by
2008.” To address this market, Flextronics has
joined the Mobile Imaging and Printing
Consortium alongside printer companies such
as Canon, Epson and HP, and phone
companies Samsung, Siemens and Nokia.
While Flextronics may be the first to offer an
‘any phone to any USB printer’ solution, this
doesn’t mean that the company will be able to
capture high margins traditionally enjoyed by a
first to market trail-blazer. Moradi explained
“The printer manufacturers are operating in a
cut-throat market, where the main margins are
made not from the printer sale, but from ink
cartridges. This means that printer costs are
low, and no-one will pay $100 for a wireless
printing adapter when the printer cost the same.
That means we have to offer a solution that can
sell for $49 or less.”
Moradi also identified another big market for
its Bluetooth and wireless printing solutions.
“We already do business with Ingenico, which is
one of the largest manufacturers of mobile
payment terminals – the device used to take
credit card payments in restaurants.
Independent research states that sales of
mobile payment terminals will account for 10%
of all Bluetooth-enabled product sales. We are
working hard to establish ourselves in this
sector.”
Moradi was bullish about Flextronics’
prospects “We have achieved 5 new design
wins in this quarter alone, and our wireless
printing solution is first to market in what will be
an enormous business.” We wish them well.
CSR and IVT tackle CTP
CSR and Bluetooth software and ODM
product
company
IVT
Corporation
announced their cooperation on Bluetooth
designs to advance one-phone combined
cellular/cordless applications for the
wireless technology.
The design makes it possible for
manufacturers to produce low-cost Bluetoothenabled converged cellular and cordless phones
for the home using the Cordless Telephony
Profile (CTP) within Bluetooth to replace existing
analogue or digital technologies such as DECT.
Bluetooth's integration into telephony will
enable a Bluetooth mobile phone to switch
between mobile and fixed-line networks,
depending on the user's location, using only one
telephone number for both types of connection.
Using CSR's BlueCore Bluetooth silicon, this
CTP application also provides a GSM mobile
phone with cordless phone function. When the
mobile phone enters into the range of a CTPenabled access point (AP), it can connect to the
AP via Bluetooth wireless technology, and then
act as the cordless phone of the AP. The
Bluetooth-enabled GSM mobile can then be
used to dial-out or pick up phone calls anywhere
in the range of the access point (100 metres).
This is then a fixed line call rather than a mobile
call and the cost is therefore lower.
This first step in the CSR IVT converged
telephony cooperation is a reference design for
a Bluetooth-enabled cellular/cordless telephone.
Bluetooth is ideal for this application because its
voice capabilities are on a par with digital
cordless standard DECT and are better than
standard cellular voice quality; Bluetooth also
offers better support for data communications,
as well as offering lower costs.
Increasingly however, network providers are
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keen to take ownership of this and are looking at
how best to bring the benefits of this converged
technology to the consumer. Bluetooth CTP
brings benefits to consumers in countries such
as China, where IVT's R&D centre is based and
the UK where British Telecom have recently
announced plans for its Bluephone project.
Dr. Qiang Gao, CEO of IVT commented, "These
products enable the merging of mobile networks
and fixed line networks, and provide consumers
with more convenient and cost-effective
connections."
Atinav and Brainboxes
partner
Atinav, a provider of Internet-based and
wireless software, announced a partnership
with Brainboxes for a wide range of
applications. Within the terms of this
partnership, Atinav provides its Bluetooth
solution, a complete implementation of the
Bluetooth protocol stack, profiles and
application programmers interface in
embedded systems, Windows, WinCE and
Java, for use in specific applications, with
Brainboxes adapters, converters and
embedded modules.
The aveLink Bluetooth Stack is implemented
according to Bluetooth SIG 1.2/1.1 specification
and is interoperable with all other standard
Bluetooth Protocol Stacks. Other aveLink
products include aveLink UPnP, which enables
pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity
and a zero configuration network that enables
network devices of all forms; aveLink OSGi,
officially certified as an OSGi 3.0 compliant
framework by the OSGi Alliance that can be
used as a platform for service delivery in offices,
homes, vehicles and even for mobile computing
in a PDA; and aveLink Framework, which allows
heterogeneous devices to communicate with
each other, to use the functionality offered by
each and enable accessibility from
browser/non-browser based clients through any
type of network.
“Brainboxes was one of the first companies
with the vision to identify the potential of the
Bluetooth technology and a natural choice of
hardware provider in the deployment of Atinav’s
aveLink Bluetooth solutions.” said Salman Ali,
manager of aveLink Strategy & Business
Development. “The unique combination of
Brainboxes’ wide range of high-performance
Bluetooth hardware and Atinav’s robust
software solutions has made it possible to
provide end-users with a product solution that
integrates hardware and software with
Bluetooth connectivity, ensuring excellent
customer user experience.”
… and Clique uses Atinav UPnP
solution for video IM programme
At the same time, Atinav announced a
partnership with Clique Communications,
LLC, a digital video applications and
solutions provider. Clique will use Atinav’s
aveLink UPnP Solution to enable its Clique
Video Messenger, a video-based instant
messaging program.
Video Messenger provides a video
communication experience over the Internet
at any available bandwidth. It supports
modular, flexible, and configurable
networking services designed to handle user
presence, authentication, message exchanging,
forwarding, archiving, real-time content
delivery, and application security.
UPnP is a technology that enables pervasive
peer-to-peer network connectivity and a zero
configuration network that enables network
devices of all forms. Atinav’s aveLink UPnP
includes an SDK for UPnP that provides a set of
software development kits that can be used as a
key component in designing a UPnP-certified
device. Atinav’s solution allowed Clique to make
the application UPnP-enabled so it could be
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deployed commercially across a wide range
of platforms and environments regardless of
firewalls and other obstacles.
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Microvision's Flic bar code scanner
uses Brainboxes’ Bluetooth
US company Microvision, a provider of highresolution scanned beam display and imaging
systems has selected a customised Bluetooth
solution from Brainboxes. The Bluetooth
converter being supplied to Microvision
provides a simple way to convert any computer
with a serial port into a wireless system,
requiring no software on the host terminal and
no difficult configuration.
Microvision is making available the Brainboxes
Bluetooth converters with its Flic Cordless
Bluetooth Laser Bar Code Scanner and is now
starting to supply them for point-of-sale (POS)
terminals such as those made by NCR and IBM. To
meet Microvision's specific requirements,
Brainboxes has provided bespoke Bluetooth
firmware, and has made specific modifications to
its standard plug-and-play RS232 to Bluetooth
converter, the BL-521.
The BL-521 becomes a wireless base station for
connection between the POS terminal and
Microvision’s elegant bar code scanner includes Bluetooth
Microvision's scanner - allowing the user to roam
freely within a range of 100m or more from the
terminal - and with virtually unlimited range, using
the Flic Scanner's auto-reconnect feature and
onboard 500 bar code memory. Brainboxes BL521 contains a Class 1 Bluetooth device and
includes all the Bluetooth intelligence for the
terminal, allowing the Flic scanner to connect to
POS equipment without any configuration. Delivery
has started and production is scheduled to ramp
up in Q3 and Q4, 2004.
Ed Millet, senior product manager for Microvision
commented, “Brainboxes has provided customised
technology to meet our requirements and the
solution they came up with provides exactly what
our customers need - the easiest possible route for
Bluetooth-enabling POS terminals to work with our
Flic scanners.”
Mercedes dealer rep in Bluetooth
scaremonger scam
This is the one story in this issue that has
nothing to do with Wi-Con at all, but we are
duty-bound to report it.
As a passionate car enthusiast who has lost
fortunes funding his automotive addiction, your
reporter has in in-built distrust of and cynicism
towards authorised car dealers, who mostly
seem intent on ripping off the helpless customer.
Sometimes, though, I am moved to accelerate
my feelings from passive distrust to ‘must do
something about these con men!’ status.
A Dr. G Sedhev wrote in to the letters page of
Autocar - the UK’s number 1 weekly car
magazine, saying …
“My father recently went to look at a Mercedes
E-Class, now that his seven year old BMW 5series needs changing. He was told by the dealer
that Mercedes advises against using nonMercedes Bluetooth technology in the car
because it might set off one of the airbags! Have
Don’t use your Bluetooth headset, sir, or you’ll end up in the river!
any other readers heard of this phenomenon?”
Aaagghh!!!! Of course not, Dr Sedhev. This will
not happen, thanks to all of the efforts of the
Bluetooth SIG, countless other wireless
developers before them, and the Daimler
Chrysler team themselves. This is deplorable
nonsense. Authorised dealers of most car
manufacturers are well known for making idiotic
statements like this to protect their own margins.
Daimler Chrysler was one of the early adopters
of in-car consumer Bluetooth, and I am
reasonably confident would refute this statement
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completely.
This scoundrel is using the age-old FUD
(Fear/Uncertainty/Doubt) tactic to scare his
customer into buying his over-priced options.
Please let there be some Daimler Chrysler exec
out there that follows up on this, (either via
Incisor or direct to Autocar themselves – the
letter appeared on page 32 of the 15-21 June
2004 issue), tracing back to whichever dealer
rep it was that made this statement.
Will it happen? Probably not. Should it?
Oh, yes.
Wireless industry intelligence - WLAN/Wi-Fi
Port of Amsterdam
goes Wi-Fi
While the wireless world was meeting a
few kilometres away at the RAI, Radionet - a
large-scale Wi-Fi Hotzone network was fired
up at the Port of Amsterdam.
Opening in June 2004, the network is owned
and operated by the Amsterdam Port Authority
(Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf Amsterdam). The
network covers the whole Port area of the
Amsterdam harbour and brings mobile wireless
network access to the Port Authority vessels. The
network is designed and built by Baas WDS and
based on Radionet's Wi-Fi Hotzone technology,
which provides mobility and network access
everywhere within the coverage zone.
The Port of Amsterdam is the fifth largest port
in Europe and an important international
logistics intersection. The Port of Amsterdam
network is based on Wi-Fi standards and
operates on the 2.4 GHz WLAN spectrum, which
enables the Port Authority of Amsterdam to use
a wide variety of Wi-Fi compliant devices and
notebooks computers to access the network in a
secure way. The network features 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi
technology for end-user access and 5.4 GHz
high-speed links for wireless backhaul. The
network also features intelligent sectorised
antennae, which extend network coverage up to
2000 meters from shore, allowing vessels to
freely move in the port area without losing
network connection.
"To replace our previous generation narrowband wireless network, we needed a reliable
network that could withstand demanding
harbour conditions and provide high speed
connections to a wide variety of applications.
Wi-Fi technology was an obvious choice for
replacement as it supports a multitude of access
devices and is cost-effective to deploy. However,
the challenges of comprehensive coverage and
suitability for outdoor-use needed to be
resolved. After looking into the competing
alternatives, the Baas WDS / Radionet solution
proved to be best choice as it offers seamless
mobility, high reliability, secured coverage and
the ability to use all standard Wi-Fi clients
without any special software," said Fons
Maartens, System manager, Amsterdam Port
Authority.
"The system was introduced to create efficient
internal communications for the Amsterdam port
authority. By linking the Patrol vessels to the
intranet they now have up to date information.
Digital reports and confidential data, used by
investigations of offences, can be exchanged
fast and secure. Other strong points were the
reduced use of VHF traffic and a decrease in
phone bills," said Aart Hiemstra, Dept.
Harbourmaster of the Amsterdam Port Authority.
"The port of Amsterdam marks the first large
harbour installation for Radionet outside the
Nordic Countries. Our Wi-Fi Hotzone solution for
harbour use has been proven in four ports and
eight cities in Finland, with the largest networks
providing a seamless broadband cloud of over
50 square kilometres. By using Wi-Fi technology
in harbour networks, port operators can reap the
benefits from the rapid development of access
devices as the network can be accessed
securely with all Wi-Fi compliant devices," said
Henry Valtonen, VP of Sales and Marketing,
Radionet.
Broadcom simplifies the Wi-Fi
set-up experience
Broadcom announced two new solutions
that it says will significantly improve
wireless connectivity for consumers who
use 54g-based equipment in their Wi-Fi
networks.
The first is an intelligent software tool that
simplifies wireless LAN network installation and
automatically configures security settings. The
second is a highly integrated hardware module
that can increase the range of 54g-based
wireless LAN devices by up to 50 percent.
Broadcom’s new solutions are intended to
enable next generation 54g products not only to
deliver higher performance wireless LAN
access, but also to alleviate the usability
concerns of many first-time Wi-Fi users.
Tackling the set-up issue, Broadcom has
developed SecureEZSetup software, a two-step
set-up wizard that simplifies network
installation and automates configuration of 54g
PCs, adapters, access points and routers.
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Wireless industry intelligence - WLAN/Wi-Fi continued
Whereas a typical wireless LAN set-up requires
a user to manually enter at least four settings for
a one-device network, the SecureEZSetup
software automatically configures these settings
for the user. Furthermore, SecureEZSetup
eliminates the need for complex access point
configuration – Broadcom predicting that even
novice Wi-Fi users will be able to set up their
wireless networks with a few clicks of a mouse.
SecureEZSetup configures both the Service Set
Identifier (SSID) and Wi-Fi Protected Access
(WPA), a standards-based security feature built
into all Wi-Fi certified products.
And to help users stay connected to their
wireless network at greater distances,
Broadcom has specified a power amplifier
module that increases the range of 54g-based
devices. The new 54g power amplifier module
combines all critical wireless LAN radio
frequency (RF) components – including the
power amplifier, power detector, switches and
filters – into a single chip-sized module. Such
integration enables increased output power and
improved signal quality of wireless LAN devices.
As a result, PCs and other mobile devices
integrating the module can maintain wireless
connections at distances up to 50 percent
farther from a 54g access point or router.
“Broadcom is building on its maximum
performance 54g solutions with innovative
features that minimise complexity and optimise
wireless coverage,” said Jeff Abramowitz, senior
director of marketing for Broadcom’s Home &
Wireless Networking business unit. Because
Broadcom supplies hardware and software for a
wide range of wireless LAN infrastructure
products, PCs and other devices, we have a
unique ability to deliver system-level solutions
that will greatly improve the Wi-Fi user
experience for both technology novices and
enthusiasts.”
SecureEZSetup and a customised software
development kit are currently available to
Broadcom’s PC OEM, retail and broadband
modem partners as part of the latest OneDriver
software release. Hardware vendors are
expected to offer the set-up wizard in many of
their upcoming products and to enable
customers to upgrade existing hardware with a
simple software download. The 54g power
amplifier module is currently being designed
into products from leading manufacturing
partners.
Cutting the Wires knits notebooks
and networks
Mobile solutions provider Cutting the Wires
(CTW) launched Zafari Mobile Professional,
which it described as the most advanced and
intuitive, network and device-independent
connection and application management
interface for notebook computers. Don’t
undersell it, guys!
CTW specialises in developing mobile
solutions, implementing end-to-end data
solutions and mobile data telecomms
consulting. It describes its mission as to
mobilize the primary data device of choice: the
laptop computer, saying that enterprises have
been slow to adopt and deploy wireless mobility
solutions over the past few years, while the
mobile operators and service providers driving
the technology have displayed little
understanding of the requirements of enterprise
IT Managers.
Fixed operators and ISPs have successfully
delivered remote access solutions to the
enterprise for many years and coming from a
data-centric, solution-led perspective, have
understood the critical decision-making factors
for IT Managers such as: security, support costs,
ROI, productivity improvements and cost and
ease of deployment.
CTW’s solution - Zafari Mobile - is a graphical
user interface (GUI) for all networks (Ethernet,
dial-up, WiFi, GRPS, 3G) and all types of
modems. The GUI is specifically designed for
laptops to provide seamless connectivity to all
networks, over all modems, irrespective of
location. Zafari Mobile creates a simple, intuitive
bridge between modem devices, network
bearers and existing user applications.
CTW says it has tested Zafari Mobile
Professional with a number of major telecom
operators, device manufacturers and
enterprises in the UK and USA, including Telstra
UK, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies,
Earthlink, Option Wireless and Sony Ericsson to
ensure that the commercial product launch
meets the requirements of both enterprises and
service providers.
Why is Zafari Mobile unique?
The company’s management claims over 100
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man years of industry experience and expertise
behind them and were the team responsible
for launching Vodafone Mobile Connect, the
GPRS data service for enterprise users from
Vodafone UK.
Wireless industry intelligence - WLAN/Wi-Fi continued
New WLAN and Bluetooth solutions
from Philips
Philips announced new 802.11b low-power
WLAN and Bluetooth semiconductor
"system-in-a-package" (SiP) solutions
specifically designed to operate at the same
time in small form-factor systems such as
smart phones, PDAs and other portable
devices.
Philips has developed specialised hardware
and software that is embedded in its WLAN and
Bluetooth SiPs so that both technologies to be
used at the same time. This means a consumer
can use a mobile phone equipped with a
Bluetooth wireless headset to make a call while
using the same phone to simultaneously check
information on the Internet via a WLAN network
- without experiencing interference.
The Philips WLAN/Bluetooth co-existence
solution incorporates dedicated hardware
interfaces and controller software embedded in
its latest WLAN BGW200 and Bluetooth 1.2
BGB203/04 SiPs - as well as in the previously
announced low-power WLAN chipsets and
Bluetooth 1.1 SiPs. An advanced Packet Traffic
Arbitration (PTA) algorithm with voice packet
prioritisation ensures seamless collaboration
between Bluetooth and WLAN and excellent
voice/audio quality. Philips' new Bluetooth 1.2
products add Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH)
capability to actively avoid WLAN frequency
channels that are in use.
Philips' WLAN 802.11b SiP will be sampling in
July 2004 and will be available in production
quantities in Q4 2004, the' Bluetooth (Flash
version) SiP will be sampling in July 2004 and
will be available in production quantities in Q4
2004while the ROM version will be available in
production quantities in Q1 2005.
Breaking the bonds - expanded use
of wireless in hotels
WLAN has received considerable attention
over the past several years as a hotel
broadband solution. Driven largely by the
interest in Hotspots, hotels and service
providers alike began to apply WLAN
technologies to the hotel market. In fact,
many of the service providers who are active
in the hotspot arena (airports, conference
centres, cafes) are also active in the
hospitality market and many of the same
dynamics of desired mobility apply equally
to the hotspot and hotel markets. In past
years, however, WLAN was seen primarily as
a solution for the public areas of the hotel,
such as the lobbies and meeting rooms.
The thinking about WLAN is now expanding
beyond the public areas and into the guestroom.
Many of the concerns hotels had regarding
guests travelling with the necessary equipment
to access (a Wi-Fi enabled laptop) have been
dissipated as indications of guest demand have
increased. Furthermore, some of the structural
impediments for deployment have been
addressed.
WLAN in the guestroom, according to market
researchers In-Stat/MDR, is the next phase in
the network evolution of hotel broadband. Many
of the large hotel flags are experimenting with
WLAN in the guestroom, either as a compliment
to the wired solution, or as a stand-alone
network. WLAN is being driven partially by
guest demand, but many hotels also view WLAN
as a less expensive broadband option.
Depending on the areas covered and
architecture of the hotel, WLAN solutions can be
deployed for several thousand dollars.
Some properties, especially in Europe, are
looking at WLAN as an initial step into offering a
guest broadband access solution. Rather than
initially fronting the cost and inconvenience of
implementing a wired solution to the guestroom,
some hotels are offering WLAN, primarily just in
the common areas (lobbies and meeting rooms),
although some are offering it to the guestroom.
Providers, such as BT (Openzone), are
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implementing this type of solution in hotels.
WLAN is also less intrusive, which in older,
historic European buildings, is very important.
Certain providers are also adopting an allwireless approach to hotel broadband. In the
US, StayOnline is a WLAN-only provider of
broadband solutions to the hospitality space,
with 300 properties under contract. StayOnline
is able to cover numerous guestrooms with a
single Access Point (AP), ranging from 10
guestrooms to over thirty, in a worst and best
cast scenario. France Telecom has also
deployed over 1000 hotel properties with
broadband (principally in a contract with Accor).
Unlike the BT deployments that are public areas
only, the France Telecom (Orange) offering
covers a minimum of 25 percent of guestrooms.
WI-CON VIGNETTE
Bob Heile
Chairman,
Zigbee Alliance
With a lengthy background in the wireless
sector, and IEEE credentials to boot, Bob
Heile is appropriately qualified to hold
down the chairmanship of the ZigBee
alliance. Heile is known in the industry as a
man of strong opinions, and not afraid to
make the odd contentious comment. It was,
then, with some interest that we met with
him at Wi-Con.
It didn’t take long for the finger-pointing to
start. Asked to describe why ZigBee will
succeed, Heile commented “The main
advantages are ZigBee’s unique qualities – its
very low power means it can operate for long
periods of time on off-the-shelf batteries, and its
ability to manage very large networks – up to
65,000 nodes. Try doing that with Bluetooth!”
And it didn’t stop there, as Heile continued “We
tried to get the Bluetooth Special Interest Group
(BSIG) to go with mesh networking, but they –
and particularly Ericsson - didn’t want to know.”
But back to the ZigBee history. “802.15.4 was
ratified in mid-2002m and the Zigbee Alliance
was incorporated in October 2002. Our main
focus – beyond furthering the interests of the 75
member companies – has been on the
networking and security layers.”
In terms of market availability, Heile predicted
that ZigBee companies would be ready to go to
market in late 2004 to early 2005. “The market
reaction has been very good, and the main
application area we will address is large
industrial control systems in factories, offices,
warehouses etc. There will undoubtedly also be
some consumer applications, too. For example,
one of the sports shoe manufacturers is
developing a shoe incorporating ZigBee to
wirelessly connect with a PDA in order to
transfer data for use in health and training
applications, plus there will be a big market for
ZigBee in devices like smoke detectors (Ed –
DECT is going for the same market – see feature
in issue 70).”
Heile went on to describe how the ZigBee
Alliance was handling its steward-ship of the
technology – standard development and day to
take place October, and we will also be setting
up a big network. We have a 100 node system
running now, and we plan to increase this to 300
nodes.”
Whatever the relative merits of the two
technologies, it seems that comparisons will
continue to be drawn between ZigBee and the
proposed Bluetooth ‘Lite’. One thing is for sure –
the ZigBee Alliance chairman has no doubts
about the merits of his offering. If any BSIG
member wishes to comment further, contact
Incisor at the usual address.
ZigBee Alliance's Bob Heile harbours no doubts about
technology's potential
day operations – and once again it was the BSIG
that was in the firing line. “It is vital that we
avoid the mistakes made by the BSIG, which lost
focus in the midst of its early days. The
technology was vastly over-hyped in terms of
what could be delivered, and the BSIG got hung
up on things like HDTV (video) over Bluetooth
when its simplest products – such as headsets
– had interoperability problems. It was laxity in
the standard that created this situation. To avoid
this, and situations whereby a standard can be
over-influenced by any one company, we
operate the ZigBee alliance as much more of a
traditional standards organisation. We wanted a
lot of ‘eyes’ or participants. There is a quasiconsensus process, though - as with a well-run
commercial business - if there is a deadlock it
will be resolved/over-ruled by a board decision.”
We ended this lively discourse with Heile
outlining the current state of the ZigBee nation.
“One month ago, three companies that have
developed protocol stacks were able to
demonstrate them interoperating. We are now
working up to the start of a series of un-plug
fests, with companies testing to the
specification. The first of these ‘Zig-Fests’ will
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Wireless industry intelligence - ZigBee
Jennic launches complete ZigBee
IP portfolio
Jennic, which supplies system-level
intellectual property (IP) cores and silicon
design services, announced the availability
of what it claims is the industry’s first
complete suite of intellectual property (IP)
cores and products for 2.4GHz IEEE802.15.4compliant and ZigBee wireless products.
Jennic’s 802.15.4 IP portfolio enables a range
of IC products providing wireless transmission
with long battery life to serve a wide range of
applications, including residential and industrial
control, personal health care, computer/gaming
peripherals and consumer electronics.
The suite of IP cores comprises a 2.4GHz
IEEE802.15.4-compliant radio in 0.18µm
RFCMOS, an O-QPSK modem, a baseband
controller and a MAC protocol stack. These
cores can be integrated to allow semiconductor
vendors or system OEMs to address the
emerging IEEE802.15.4 / ZigBee market quickly
and with minimum cost and risk, or they can be
combined with a customer’s IP (such as a
processor or radio) to produce customer-defined
products.
“There are tremendous opportunities in adding
standards-based wireless systems to both
mature and emerging industrial and home
markets,” said Jim Lindop, CEO, Jennic Ltd.
“Jennic’s IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee wireless
technology will enable our customers to exploit
these markets with industry-leading products in
a timely, cost-effective manner.”
Jennic will also integrate the cores to provide
IP chip level products to suit a range of
applications from lowest-cost, single-chip
systems to high-performance transceivers.
Complete system-on-chip devices, with
integrated transceiver, processor and
peripherals may be developed, aiming to provide
the lowest possible bill-of-materials and lowest
power consumption, leading to several years of
life from one battery. Evaluation boards and a
software developers kit will be available for
application development.
Chipcon lowers the price on IEEE
802.15.4/ZigBee technology
ZigBee’s position is as a low power and low
cost technology. Setting out its stall at WiCon, Norwegian company Chipcon, which is
a provider of low cost, low-power RF-ICs
was offering the CC2420, IEEE 802.15.4
compliant and ZigBee ready RF Transceiver
for as low as US$2.00 in large quantities.
Chipcon's standard RF-ICs provide-low cost,
low-power and high-performance RF solutions
for a large number of wireless applications
including home and building automation,
wireless sensor networks, automatic meter
reading (AMR), alarm and security, consumer
electronics and automotive. Chipcon's singlechip RF transceivers and transmitters target
low-power wireless applications in the 300 to
1000 MHz and 2.4 GHz frequency bands. The
products are distributed worldwide.
Since the launch of the CC2420 in 2003,
Chipcon says it has seen an enormous interest
for its RF Transceiver and that the product has
been in mass production since February 2004.
Chipcon has shipped more than 350
Chipcon aims to be at forefront of ZigBee roll out
development kits to customers worldwide,
including many major OEM's.
"Chipcon is proud to be in the front of the
competition both by providing the best technical
solutions and lowest cost solutions to the
market", says VP component sales John Helge
Fjellheim, and continues; "Chipcon is dedicated
to support the emerging need for low cost, low
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power, robust and seamless wireless
networking."
Based on the new pricing structure Chipcon's
customers are now able to develop and
manufacture real low-cost and low-power
wireless products based on IEEE 802.15.4 and
Zigbee.
WI-CON VIGNETTE
Erich Kamperschroer
Chairman,
DECT Forum
The feature provided by the DECT Forum
that appeared in the Wi-Con preview issue
may have come as a surprise to Incisor’s
readers – isn’t DECT old technology?
Not according to Erich Kamperschroer,
chairman of the DECT Forum, and also manger
of technology strategy for Siemens’ information
and communications mobile cordless products
division.
“People want to be able to use cordless
phones in the home, and in the enterprise, but
they are also interested in ways of reducing the
number of phones they use – cellular and
cordless, and in taking advantage of least cost
routing. There is a gap in the marker which –
unresolved as it is – Bluetooth Cordless
Telephony Profile (CTP) has failed to fill. We are
working on the situation whereby there is an
awareness of Bluetooth as it is still new,
whereas DECT and the DECT logo have never
really been promoted as an identity in their own
right.”
With his Siemens hat on, Kamperschroer is
able to confirm that DECT is still big business, as
Siemens sells 30% of all cordless phones in
Europe. These include a DECT/ISDN base station
that has recently been launched with built-in
Bluetooth, and supporting the DUN and Headset
profiles.
“While hype about DECT may be low, people
still have application needs,” said
Kamperschroer, continuing “DECT started back
in 1994, and hit a peak of interest in ‘96/’97.
Bluetooth hype started in 1999, and this
undoubtedly hurt DECT, but since 2002 DECT
has been enjoying a comeback. Analyst
numbers confirm that DECT unit sales grew
globally by between 3-6% last year, and in
Western Europe the number was 30%.”
Impressive numbers, for sure, but why is DECT
still grabbing such a large share of the market?
“The one unarguable fact is that DECT chips are
very low cost. Add to this how well-established
DECT is, and you can see why it is so successful
in cordless phones, and why it is now being
considered for other applications such as SMS
messaging and wireless-enabling domestic
devices such as smoke alarms (see Incisor WiCon preview issue ‘DECT – messaging in the
home’)” commented Kamperschroer.
Its not all plain sailing, though, and
Kamperschroer admitted that the DECT Forum
spends a lot of time campaigning for spectrum
availability, fighting with UMTS, negotiating with
the FCC for the US roll-out, and working on
launches in Latin America, India and China,
where – strangely – DECT can be used in the
enterprise, but not residentially.
Whatever the challenges, it seems we
certainly have not seen the last of a technology
that unobtrusively powers many of the world’s
cordless phones.
Cambridge Consultants optimises
DECT for 2.4Ghz ISM band
Product
development
consultancy
Cambridge Consultants is introducing new
software intellectual property that optimises
DECT for use in the license-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.
Cambridge Consultants has added proprietary
interference-avoiding technology onto the DECT
protocol to optimise it for use at 2.4GHz. With
suitable low-cost radio chipsets already in
existence, Cambridge Consultants forecasts that
the new DECT platform will offer considerable
quality-of-service advantages compared with
existing US cordless technologies for instance,
as well as alternative wireless technologies
such as WiFi and Bluetooth.
Cambridge Consultants' new software
intellectual property employs a coexistence
strategy based on a discovery algorithm that
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provides information on the current real-time
usage of the spectrum by popular wireless
systems, to determine the quietest channels.
The company believes that DECT protocol still
offers an unmatched quality of wireless service
in this arena. Among its attributes are highquality voice and data connections, a range of
up to 300m (328 yards), low battery power
consumption, and seamless hand-over between
basestations for mobility.
Postcards from Amsterdam
Big hitters at Wi-Con included Texas Intstruments ...
...and Motorola
Wi-Con welcomed new technologies and new faces. Ember represents
the ZigBee industry
One of these is a dummy wearing Infineon wireless technology
Bluetooth SIG booth not the
glossiest at Wi-Con
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Incisor directory
Incisor directory of Bluetooth and
wireless industry companies
As time goes on, more and more companies join the Bluetooth Special
Interest Group (SIG), becoming part of the global network of companies that are
working to take Bluetooth technology to market.
On an ongoing basis, Incisor includes a listing of companies providing
products and services within the Bluetooth and short range RF sector.
Beyond the simple listing, wherever there is an open book icon ()
alongside the company name, you will be able to obtain more information and
contact details for that company by clicking on the icon. This provides a link to
an expanded profile of that company.
Incisor continues to be the only continuously published magazine dedicated
to Bluetooth and short range RF technology, and is received at more than 1200
companies across the world, and enjoyed by an estimated readership of
25,000 individuals. To add your company or a profile for your company to this
directory listing, email: [email protected]
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Access point/gateway products
BLIP Systems
Clipcomm Inc.
Commil Ltd
lesswire AG
Inventel
Pico Communications
Red-M
Tadlys
Wireless Networks Inc.
Antennas
Fractus
GigaAnt
Cellular handsets
Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe
Motorola
Nokia
Panasonic
Philips
Sony Ericsson
Communications Consulting
Alpine Communications
PA Consulting Group
Connectivity/Hardware
products
3Com
Anycom, Inc.
Brain Boxes Ltd
Ensure Technologies
Logitech
MediaSolv.com
Roving Networks
Socket Communications
Tactel AB
TDK Systems
Troy Group
Xircom
ConnectBlue AB
Market research & analysis
ARC Group
Baskerville
Chorleywood Consulting
EMC
IMS Research
Digital pen and paper
technology
Anoto
Hardware and software
design/IP
Adamya Technologies
ARC Wireless Solutions Inc.
Atinav Inc.
CEVA Inc.
Colligo Networks Inc.
Cosmic Co Ltd
DsIT Technologies Ltd
Ericsson Technology Licensing
Company
Impulsesoft
IVT Corporation
LinTech GmbH
Mecel AB
MindTree Consulting
NewLogic Technologies
Penell A/S
RTX Telecom
Stollmann E+V GmbH
Tality Corporation
Teleca
TTPCom Ltd.
WaveLab Engineering AG
Mobile Computing products
Casio
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
IBM
Palm
Samsung Electronics
Sony Information Technology
Europe
Toshiba Information Systems
OEM solutions
SMART Modular
Technologies
Silicon/Semiconductors
Alcatel Microelectronics
Atmel Corporation
Brightcom Technologies, Inc.
Conexant Systems, Inc.
Cambridge Silicon
Radio (CSR)
Infineon Technologies
Intel Corporation
KC Technology Inc
National Semiconductor GmbH
Philips Semiconductors RF Micro Devices
SiGe Semiconductor
Silicon & Software Solutions
Silicon Wave
Headsets
GN Netcom
Plantronics
Industrial products
Baracoda
BlueGiga Technologies
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Spirea
STMicroelectronics
Texas Instruments, Inc.
XEMICS SA
Zeevo, Inc.
Software solutions &
applications
Atinav Inc.
Bandspeed
Mezoe
Microsage Wireless
Norwood Systems
Open Interface
RegiSoft
Rococo Software
SofBlue Inc.
WIDCOMM
Zi Corporation
Test Equipment
Anritsu
Berkeley Varitronics Systems
Catalyst Enterprises
CETECOM Spain
IAR Systems
Tektronix, Inc.
Tescom Co Ltd
Test houses
7 layers
CETECOM Inc.
Ericsson
ETS DR.GENZ GmbH
Intertek ETL SEMKO
Radio Frequency
Investigation (RFI)
Wireless industry calendar of events
DATE
EVENT
LOCATION
NOTES
LINK
June 1 - 4 2004
World Communications
Association 2004
Marriott Wardman
Park Hotel,
Washington DC, USA
Premier event for wireless broadband
products and services
http://www.wcai.com/
June 8 - 10 2004
Wireless Connectivity World
Amsterdam RAI,
Netherlands
-
www.wiconworld.com
June 30 - July 1 2004
LBS Forum 2004 - 1
Budapest
For those developing and marketing attractive,
profitable mobile location based services
http://www.iir-conferences.com
Sep 27 - Oct 1 2004
3GSM World Congress Asia
Suntec International
Convention &
Exhibition Center,
Singapore
-
http://www.gsmconferences.com/3gsmasia/
Oct 13 -14 2004
Enterprise Wireless Technology
Olympia, London
Dedicated enterprise event for mobile and
wireless technologies
http://www.enterprisewirelesstechnology.com/
tbc, October 2004
WiCon Asia
Singapore
-
www.wiconworld.com/asia
November 8 - 10 2004
WiCon Americas
Santa Clara
Convention Center
-
www.wiconworld.com/americas
Further wireless industry events will be added to the calendar as soon as they are announced. See notes below regarding editorial submissions.
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