Cirronet Announces High-Performance, Low-Cost 2.4GHz Wireless Data Module

NORCROSS, Ga., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Cirronet, Inc., a leading provider of wireless transceivers and broadband Internet products, today announced the initial shipments of developers' kits for its low-cost WIT2450 2.4GHz OEM module, the company's newest OEM module for product design engineers. General product availability is targeted for September 2004.

Cirronet wireless industrial transceiver (WIT) OEM modules provide fast, robust, and secure communications in a wide range of settings. Like all Cirronet wireless industrial products, the new WIT2450 2.4GHz module will feature the company's patented frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) technology, known for its superior ability to deliver critical data in environments ordinarily considered too hostile for radio communications. WIT modules are deployed around the world for factory automation, supervisory control and data automation (SCADA), medical telemetry, mining vehicle control, and fleet management. The WIT2450 provides the same 460.8kbps data rate and performance as the WIT2410, Cirronet's industry leading module for mission-critical applications, and adds a 250mW transmit power to 10mW and 100mW levels, all for a price of $99 in 500 piece annual quantities.

"The WIT2450 offers the unique combination of low-cost, highly integrated components with Cirronet's high-performance, high reliability MAC and RF know-how at a price that will enable development of a wide variety of price-sensitive applications," said Tim Cutler, Cirronet's vice president of marketing. "Product design engineers no longer need to settle for less reliable solutions due to cost constraints."

WIT modules are FCC certified to operate in the license-exempt 900MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band. The WIT2410, WIT2450, WIT2411 and WIT5811 are also CE marked for European and world-wide use. Designs that incorporate the modules need not repeat type approval.