demonstrations of cordless telephony through a GSM handset
at WiCon World
CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2004--CSR PLC
, a leading provider of single-chip radio devices, and IVT
Corporation, a leading provider of Bluetooth Software and
ODM products, today 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 Bluetooth-enabled 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 Bluetooth CTP
application also provides a GSM mobile phone with cordless
phone function. When the mobile phone enters into the range
of a CTP-enabled 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. IVT's Bluetooth CTP enabled
products and reference design use the CSR BlueCore2-Ext chip
at their heart, this means that a very small number of external
components are required to manufacture a Bluetooth cellular/cordless
handset. The reference design makes use of Bluetooth technology's
Class 1 range, enabling an operational range of around 100
metres.
Increasingly however, network providers are 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.
CSR and IVT will demonstrate these benefits of CTP technology
in Bluetooth GSM handsets at WiCon World 2004 in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, from 8th June at CSR's booth. The Bluetooth CTP
enabled GSM phone will make or receive call via IVT's Bluetooth
access point through fix-line networks, all operating with
Class 1 Bluetooth capability to enable operating ranges of
100 metres.
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." Dr. Gao continued, "With CSR BlueCore,
the leading Bluetooth technology, IVT can help GSM or CDMA
phone manufacturers to develop CTP enabled phones, by either
porting IVT's Bluetooth stack and CTP profile into their mobile
phone platform, or, by offering a very small Bluetooth Class
1 module with the CTP profile embedded within BlueCore. Thus,
allowing the Bluetooth class 1 module to communicate with
phone Host system using AT-commands. IVT's CTP enabled Access
points and GSM phone are in pre-production stage and IVT is
ready to take sample orders."
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About CSR
CSR PLC (LSE: CSR.L) is a leading provider of single-chip
radio devices for Bluetooth wireless communication. CSR offers
developed hardware/software packages based around BlueCore,
a fully integrated 2.4 GHz radio, baseband and microcontroller.
BlueCore features in 60 percent of all Bluetooth qualified
end products and modules with international names such as
Microsoft Corp, Nokia, Dell, Panasonic, Audi, NEC, Toshiba,
Samsung and Sony already using BlueCore in their range of
Bluetooth products.
In June 2003, CSR launched the third generation BlueCore
devices with full support for v1.2 of the Bluetooth specification.
In February 2004, CSR floated on the London Stock Exchange
in the largest UK technology floatation in three years.
CSR is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Richardson,
Texas, USA; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Taipei, Taiwan and
Aalborg, Denmark.
More information can be found at
www.csr.com and the partner web site www.btdesigner.com
About IVT
IVT is a world leader in licensing its Bluetooth software
and providing its Bluetooth ODM products. Since 1998, IVT
has continually developed cutting edge products including
Bluetooth stack and profiles source code, protocol analyzer,
conformance & interoperability testers, application software
for PC's, laptop's, PDA's and Smart phone's, a variety of
reference designs & patent protected Access Points, and
other turnkey solutions. IVT was the first to release the
Bluetooth Protocol Stack SDL/C source code in November 1999,
followed by the first Bluetooth conformance tester in September
2000, and the first Bluetooth profiles interoperability tester
in September 2001. IVT's software and solutions are being
widely adopted by hundreds of industry participants for use
in their products. IVT has sales offices in Europe, Japan,
Korea, Taiwan and an R & D Centre in China. IVT is an
associated member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group
(SIG), For more information, please visit www.ivtcorporation.com
or contact support@ivtcorporation.com
More information about Bluetooth can be found on the SIG
web site at www.Bluetooth.com
