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News Release from: Open Interface North America | Subject: Bluetusk
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 07 October 2005

Bluetooth software works on UWB hardware

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Open Interface North America has demonstrated its Bluetusk software operating with Freescale Semiconductor's ultrawideband hardware at the Wireless Connectivity Americas conference.

Open Interface North America has demonstrated its Bluetusk software operating with Freescale Semiconductor's ultrawideband (UWB) hardware at the Wireless Connectivity Americas conference Based on Bluemagic 3.0, Open Interface North America added support for TCP/IP streams in parallel with the normal Bluetooth HCI channel to create Bluetusk

This new software can move data equally well over DS-UWB and other high bandwidth PHYs.

The demonstration uses commodity HCI-mode Bluetooth devices together with Freescale's direct sequence UWB (DS-UWB) hardware to send data at speeds up to 110Mbit/s over a Bluetooth wireless link.

"Bluetusk gives our customers the maximum flexibility in designing adaptable wireless systems that can detect and utilise whatever protocols are available and useful, while keeping the user-friendly Bluetooth profiles and ad-hoc connectivity", said Greg Burns, CTO of Open Interface North America.

"Initially this will typically be moving large files quickly, from digital still cameras or smart phones to printers, but this gives us a direct development path to streaming video with Bluetooth ease of use and profile standardisation".

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