Software Protocol Analyzers Reduce Fear of Bluetooth

With increased competition for scarcer consumer dollars, manufacturers find themselves scrambling to add features, and one attribute that quickly sets one product above another is wireless capability. Hence, the mad dash to integrate Bluetooth technology into existing hard-wired applications. Greasing the skids for Bluetooth's entry into new territory-both consumer and industrial-is the modern protocol analyzer, now updated to effortlessly examine not only the wireless interface between devices such as a cell phone and a headset, but also the interface between the CPU and the Bluetooth chip inside a device. The advanced capabilities of today's protocol analyzer software help overcome the fear associated with "cutting the umbilical cord" to traditionally hard-wired elements. Companies can now release their newly Bluetooth-enabled products with confidence that the item has been thoroughly tested and will perform to spec in the field.