Bluetooth®
Bluetooth® is a wireless protocol utilizing short-range communications technology
facilitating data transmissions over short distances from fixed and/or mobile
devices, creating wireless personal area networks (PANs). The intent behind
the development of Bluetooth was the creation of a single digital wireless
protocol, capable of connecting multiple devices and overcoming issues arising
from synchronization of these devices. Bluetooth provides a way to connect
and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, telephones,
laptops, personal computers, printers, GPS receivers, digital cameras, and
video game consoles over a secure, globally unlicensed Industrial, Scientific,
and Medical (ISM) 2.4 GHz short-range radio frequency bandwidth. The Bluetooth
specifications are developed and licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest
Group (SIG). The Bluetooth SIG consists of companies in the areas of telecommunication,
computing, networking, and consumer electronics.
Ellisys Bluetooth Protocol Testing Revolution
Traffic analysis is one of the key day-to-day activities of Bluetooth engineers
looking to rapidly test and debug their implementations. Unfortunately, Bluetooth over-the-air
sniffing has always been some difficult task topic. Legacy sniffing methods
suffered from major drawbacks, making them unreliable and unusable in some
circumstances, therefore making Bluetooth engineers' lives difficult.
Ellisys worked during many years on a groundbreaking protocol test system
radically overcoming drawbacks of those
legacy approaches to Bluetooth sniffing and developed the revolutionary
Ellisys Rainbow capture technology, enabling synchrounous, concurrent, All-Channel,
Full-Spectrum capture of all Bluetooth 2.1 BR/EDR channels, plus all
Bluetooth Low Energy channels, in addition to HCI channels. Find
out more »
"It
is with a lot of excitement that we finally release the result of several years
of R&D to the Bluetooth community," stated Mario Pasquali,
Ellisys, president for product development. "We’re proud to
say our design team delivered right on point, bringing several unique hardware
and software innovations that will speed engineers development cycles and help
them to confidently introduce new Bluetooth wireless technology products
to the marketplace.”
"Designing such a unique piece of equipment has been a very motivating challenge," said
Sylvain Fasel, Ellisys, Bluetooth engineering manager. "We
are huge fans of the Bluetooth technology and we sincerely hope our
contribution will help engineers build better products more quickly."
Find out more about Ellisys Bluetooth solutions »
Bluetooth UnPlugFests
The purpose of Bluetooth UnPlugFests (UPFs) is to help the member companies
who are developing products that meet the Bluetooth Specifications
to interoperate. The goal is to help to ensure conformance to the specifications
and to improve interoperability between the products from different manufacturers.
Ellisys is the selected Debugging Sponsor of the
UnPlugFests. As such, Ellisys experts help participants by capturing
their traffic with the revolutionary All-Channel Ellisys Bluetooth Explorer
protocol analyzer, and by reviewing the captured traffic for interoperability
issues. UPFs are unique opportunities to test extensively a device implementation
and every company involved in Bluetooth is highly encouraged to participate.
Links
Bluetooth technology website
Bluetooth SIG website
The Bluetooth word mark and logo are registered trademarks and are owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
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