Wipro Technologies Announces Its Hands-Free and Printer Profiles for Bluetooth

December 13, 2001

Strengthens Customer Confidence for an Evolving Technology

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) with a suite of Bluetooth offerings called BlueWave, today announced the commercial availability of two of the newest Bluetooth Profiles, the Hands-free Profile and the Printer Profile. The Hands-free profile will significantly improve the safety and comfort of using mobile phones while driving, and the Printer profile will make the user experience of taking print outs far more flexible.

In addition to these two profiles, Wipro already has 13 BQB Version 1.1 qualified profiles. One of these, the Dial-up Networking Profile, is being demonstrated by Wipro in the Bluetooth Developers Conference in San Francisco from Dec.11-13. The Bluetooth Dial-up Networking enables short-range wireless connectivity between a PC/Laptop and the PSTN line via a Bluetooth-enabled Modem. Wipro's Dial-up Networking Profile software enables a customer to quickly plug-in the solution and build a Bluetooth-enabled Modem, thus getting vital time-to-market advantage.

Wipro Technologies has also developed and integrated hands-free Profile application for various customers. Wipro's Hands-free Profile is integrated with other Bluetooth building blocks to develop the Hands-free Car Kit. This Hands-free car kit allows you to place and receive calls at the touch of a button, all while driving and keeping your mobile phone in your pocket. It significantly increases safety along with providing remarkable comfort to drivers who need to communicate on a mobile phone. Wipro is planning to complement this offering with the Phone Access Profile to provide complete Bluetooth solutions to the automotive industry.

Mr. M. Divakaran, CEO, Embedded and Internet Access Solutions, Wipro Technologies said, "The new profiles that we have added reflect our commitment to the Bluetooth wireless technology and reinforce Wipro's promise to foray into the latest technology. Our new offerings should greatly enhance our position in the automotive and the computing space. Our IPs are robustly tested and can be seamlessly integrated into any design, thus significantly reducing the time-to-market for various products. They are also backed by a host of design services in order to give the customers an end-to-end solution."

Wipro has a complete set of Bluetooth components consisting of a low gate count BlueWave Hardware Controller as well as a flexible software implementation of the baseband functionality for quick prototyping called the BlueWave Controller Lite. Both baseband controllers have been successfully tested for interoperability with various third-party radio chipsets. Wipro also offers an easily portable BlueWave Software Protocol Stack and Profiles that offers support for multiple Operating Systems and includes fifteen Profiles as defined by the Bluetooth specification. Wipro's Bluetooth customers are thus assured of product quality and conformance, thus helping them develop products which are easily scalable and interoperable, and resulting in significant savings in cost and time.

The fifteen profiles available with Wipro's BlueWave software stack include the Generic Access Profile, Service Discovery Application Profile, Serial Port Profile, Dial Up Networking Profile, Fax Profile, Headset Profile, LAN Access Profile, Generic Object Exchange Profile, File Transfer Profile, Object Push Profile, Synchronization Profile, Cordless Telephony Profile, Intercom Profile, Hands-free Profile and Printer Profile. Wipro's BlueWave Baseband Controller and BlueWave stack together form a complete Bluetooth solution that can be easily deployed in a broad range of embedded applications, be they custom Bluetooth system designs or IC implementations.


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