The strategy outlined in the roadmap below suggests a three phase approach
to proliferation of the Butterfly technology. The first phase includes products
based on the company's proprietary WiNGs, WSS and Cruiser protocols and
is geared for 900 MHz operation for systems that can utilize communication
speeds of about 400 kbps. These systems typically fall into wireless data
solutions for human interface devices, such as joysticks, game pads and
keyboards, as well as for wireless security and wireless control. It also
supports standard voice devices, such as single and multi-handset cordless
telephones and voice recognition appliances.
The second phase is a migration path upwards in both frequency and performance.
This development effort will yield products operating in the 2.4 GHz spectrum
at speeds of up to 2 Mbps. In addition, Butterfly was an early adopter and
will support the efforts of the emerging industry standards of the HomeRF
Working Group and Bluetooth SIG.
Finally, the roadmap yields even higher speed, higher frequency products
in the third phase of development. These products will take advantage of
the newly created U-NII bands in the 5.15-5.35 GHz frequency bands and operate
at a minimum of 10 to 20 Mbps on a derivative of the SWAP protocol for multimedia
applications, known as SWAP MM, as well as, other emerging standard and
proprietary protocols. |
