30.06.2006

Bluetooth Developer BLUEGIGA TECHNOLOGIES Appoints GLYN as its Exclusive Distributor for Australia, New Zealand

Glyn Ltd has been appointed as the exclusive distributor of leading Bluetooth® solutions provider Bluegiga Technologies for Australia and New Zealand, focusing on its OEM Bluetooth modules.

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Finland, Bluegiga Technologies Ltd. is a provider of cutting-edge Bluetooth-based wireless communication platforms that are secure, cost efficient, easy-to-integrate, easy-to-use, and meeting high quality standards.

Industry leading vendors in telemetry and M2M, transportation and logistics, point of sale, automotive, and medical equipment are among the manufacturers turning to Bluegiga for the power-efficient and small-sized WRAP THOR™ Bluetooth modules to unwire their own end products.  Bluegiga’s WRAP THOR™ Bluetooth modules come with both 10-meter range class 2 and 100-meter class 1 variants. Equipped with the full Bluetooth software stack and available with all the major standard firmware options as well as with customer specific custom firmware, the modules enable device manufacturers to easily develop robust wireless communication links to both new and existing applications. With Bluegiga’s unique BluRoam™ roaming iWRAP™ control interface, and a wide range of development tools, Bluegiga's modules offer unbeatable value to original equipment manufacturers and system integrators.

Bluegiga’s complete solution typically incorporates the following devices: Bluetooth Modules and Access Servers.  The role of an Access Server is to connect the Bluetooth-equipped devices to other networks such as WLAN, Ethernet, GSM/GPRS or act as a Bluetooth router between devices. The other unique feature of the Access Server is that it can host applications autonomously. This feature is widely used for data logging, application hosting, proxying and protocol conversations.

The role of Bluetooth Modules from a system’s point of view is to act as a network interfaces ('wireless network card') of the device. The major benefits of using Bluetooth as a wireless network interface in a device include access to global markets, small power consumption, wide acceptance and interoperability with other vendors’ devices, and security.