Cambridge, UK-based product development consultancy Cambridge Consultants Ltd (CCL) will demonstrate new silicon intellectual property (IP) that optimizes DECT for use in the license-free 2.4 GHz ISM frequency band, making it suitable for worldwide markets including the United States where the usual 1.8 to 1.9 GHz band is unavailable.

CCL has added proprietary interference-avoiding technology onto the DECT protocol to optimize it for use at 2.4 GHz. With suitable low-cost radio chipsets already in existence, this new DECT platform offers considerable quality-of-service advantages compared with many existing U.S. cordless technologies, as well as alternative wireless technologies such as WiFi and Bluetooth.

Among the DECT protocol's attributes are high-quality voice and data connections, a range of up to 300 m (˜1000 feet), low battery power consumption, and seamless hand-over between base-stations for mobility.

CCL's new silicon intellectual property employs a coexistence strategy based on a discovery algorithm that provides information on the current real-time usage of the spectrum by popular wireless systems, to determine the quietest channels for it to use.

The IP will be demonstrated at Wireless Connectivity (WiCon) World June 8-10 in Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands.

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