All ISDN Services over Bluetooth / ISDN over Bluetooth standardized - Wireless data and speech / Bluetooth SIG adopts new standard for ISDN

Berlin 15. 8. 2002 (PROTEXT/ots) - The Bluetooth SpecialInterest Group (SIG), an association of over 2000 technologycompanies, has just resolved a standard for the use of ISDN overBluetooth. Thanks to the new Bluetooth Common ISDN AccessProfile, known as CIP, Bluetooth devices such as PCs, PDAs andGSM telephones gain, for the first time, unlimited access toISDN data and telephone communications services. When using CIPall ISDN B- and D-channel capabilities and functions areavailable. The new standard defines the communication betweenthe so-called ISDN Clients and the ISDN Access Points using theinternational norms ETSI 300 838 and GSM 07.08. Wireless ISDNcommunication over Bluetooth is possible with the full ISDN datatransfer rate and a coverage of 100 meters and more.

PC, PDA and GSM-Telephone over Bluetooth Now ISDN Capable Ithas taken around 14 months for the expert team, appointed by theBluetooth SIG for preparing the Common ISDN Profile, toestablish a globally applicable standard for combining theextensive services of ISDN together with Bluetooth technology.Matthias Frey, team chairman and employee at AVM, the worldlargest manufacturer of ISDN PC controllers, is excited aboutthe results. "We now have an independent industry standard whichwill enable a variety of new ISDN and Bluetooth devices. In anextremely short time span the team managed to combine thechallenging ISDN technology with Bluetooth. This represents acomplete success." The CIP version 0.95 technical specificationsare presently available atwww.bluetooth.org/specifications.htm.The Bluetooth SIG issuesfirst of all the version number 0.95 to all officially adoptedand published Profiles.

AVM and BlueFRITZ!- Head Start with New Standard

AVM BlueFRITZ! products support CIP as a central Profile, theBlueFRITZ! products update policy guarantees the implementationof the newest standards. In the same manner all other importantprotocols will be made available. BlueFRITZ! offers, form theuser point of view, the same functionality as the FRITZ!CardPCI, with the increased comfort of a wireless connection.

About AVM AVM is the world's leading manufacturer of PC ISDN-Controllers and ISDN application software. The company's focusis on connecting the PC to the digital communicationtechnologies ISDN, DSL and GSM. About one half of all the ISDN-Controllers sold in Europe are made by AVM. AVM's FRITZ!Cardfamily of products is extremely popular. Founded in 1986 inBerlin, AVM earned sales of Euro170 million in 2001 with some480 employees.

Contact:

AVM Computersysteme Vertriebs GmbH Alt-Moabit 95 10559Berlin, Germany Tel. 0049-30-39976-0 www.avm.de

Urban Bastert Press Office Tel. 0049-30-39976-214 Fax 0049-30-39976-640 E-Mail u.bastert@avm.de

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