IVT Announces Computer Bus Tools as new Distribution Partner for North American Market

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -Jan. 8, 2001 - IVT Corporation, a privately-held provider of Bluetooth wireless communications products, today announced that it has partnered with Computer Bus Tools based in Newbury Park, California as its distribution partner for the US.

"Computer Bus Tools brings a great deal of experience and success in the IT testing and software distribution markets and dramatically increases our resources in the US. We are very pleased to be working with a talented and emerging company like Computer Bus Tools". Said Arnie Lingwall, IVT's Director of Marketing and Sales, USA. Computer Bus Tools will be representing IVT's full range of Bluetooth products including its protocol stack, Bluetooth software suite, conformance and interoperability testers, IVT's Bluetooth analyzer, reference designs and testing services.

"Bluetooth Solutions will be bringing new applications in ways we never dreamed" according to Computer Bus Tools President, Dennis Murphy. "Time to market pressures will be greatly relieved through the use of the proven IVT Bluetooth protocol stack solution sets. IVT's conformance and interoperability testing solutions and services add a great deal of value to our existing high-end Bluetooth analyzer tools."

IVT's Bluetooth Protocol Stack is a full implementation of the Bluetooth host protocol stack V1.1 in ANSI C. It contains all protocols in the Bluetooth host protocol stacks including TCS, SDP, RFCOMM, L2CAP and HCI. The code is very efficient, reliable, small, and suitable for embedded applications as well as desktop applications. IVT's validated protocol uses the formal design technique Specification Description Language (SDL) to assure that protocols were correct before writing C code.

Major advantages of the IVT BlueletTM Protocol Stack are as follows: BQB Qualified; Based on validated SDL model; Library based ANSI C source Code, easy to port to different Oss; Support different Oss (VxWorks, pSOS+, OSE, Win32, Windows CE, Linux, Palm OS, and REX); support different HCI transport drivers (USB, UART, and PCMCIA); and support over thirteen Bluetooth chip sets. Further more, IVT protocol stack and profiles are used in IVT BlueTester? As reference implementations to be tested in test houses and product manufacturers against many different products for conformance and interoperability. IVT offers market leading interoperability.

About IVT

IVT is the industry leader in providing a full range of Bluetooth software, including protocol stack, profiles, protocol analyzer, and interoperability and conformance testers. IVT was the first to release the Bluetooth Protocol Stack SDL/C source code in November 1999, soon followed by the first Bluetooth conformance & interoperability tester in September 2000. IVT is a Bluetooth SIG Associate Member. IVT has sales offices in Europe, USA, Korea, Taiwan, R&D center in China, and a worldwide customer base. IVT's US office can be reached at 801-446-3878. Additional information may also be found on IVT's website at
www.ivtcorporation.com.

About CBT

Computer Bus Tools is committed to excellence in consultative selling and service to the Computer Bus Industry. CBT provides timely and critical information and expert engineering assistance on state-of-the-art tools related to the development and testing of computer, peripherals, storage and telecommunication bus products. For more information, Computer Bus Tools can be reached at (805) 376-6048 or on the Internet at www.bustools.com

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