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Oct. 5, 2005 - Open Interface North America, the world'ss premier silicon-independent Bluetooth solutions provider, demonstrates its BLUEtusk software operating with Freescale Semiconductor'ss Ultra-Wideband (UWB) hardware at Wireless Connectivity Americas conference today.



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'ss direct sequence UWB (DS-UWB) hardware to send data at speeds up to 110Mbps over a Bluetooth wireless link.



BLUEtusk gives our customers the maximum flexibility in designing adaptable wireless systems that can detect and utilize 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 standardization.



About the Demonstration

The demonstration features two laptops running BLUEtusk software equipped with both Bluetooth and UWB modules. After performing Bluetooth device and service discovery, data is exchanged over the Bluetooth link at normal v1.2 speeds up to 1Mbps. Next, the UWB radios are enabled and the same data transfer occurs at the much higher UWB speeds. With Open Interface'ss software approach, there'ss no need to insert a radio-specific MAC into the Bluetooth stack. This allows the various technologies to interoperate on a level-playing field, said Martin Rofheart, director of the Ultra-Wideband Operation at Freescale Semiconductor. This demonstration combines the strengths of Bluetooth and UWB in a direct way that'ss simple to understand and implement.



About Open Interface North America

Open Interface North America, Inc. is a world-leading supplier of Bluetooth software and application solutions for the automotive, consumer, medical, and wireless markets. Open Interface North America is a privately held company based in Seattle Washington.

www.oi-us.com



BLUEmagic 3.0 from Open Interface North America is the first Bluetooth protocol stack listed as V2.0+EDR compliant by the Bluetooth SIG.



Open Interface North America Contact:

Henry Nielsen

Open Interface North America

(206) 315-5570

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BLUEmagic 3.0, BLUEtusk are trademarks of Open Interface North America. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

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