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Article: Avoiding Bluetooth's missteps: ZigBee backers are focusing on low-cost, low-power wireless networks.(Networking)(ZigBee Alliance)
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- Electronic Business
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- March 1, 2005
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Supporters of the ZigBee wireless networking standard claim to have learned a few lessons from the missteps of another wireless rival, Bluetooth. "We looked critically at Bluetooth and learned a lot from that," says Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance, which represents 120 semiconductor, software and systems companies backing the new standard.
Heile, who is also chief technology officer for Appairent Technologies, vows that when the first ZigBee-certified products hit the market this year, they will work properly together, thanks to two years of careful development. Bluetooth, in contrast, was rushed to market with interoperability problems that took a ...