Wi2Wi intros mobile embedded hotspot

LAS VEGAS, USA: Wi2Wi, Inc. is a leader in developing multiple-radio solutions that fulfill the businesses and consumers’ growing demand for connectivity. Wi2Wi’s Mobile Embedded Hotspot technology has been recognized for bringing businesses and consumers ultimate mobility by delivering a truly mobile Internet Access Point.

Wi2Wi's Mobile Embedded Hotspot (MEH) turns any business and consumer electronic device with an Internet connection into a pocket-sized wireless hotspot. The MEH enables mobile Internet users to carry a Wi-Fi hotspot with them wherever they go, and supports up to 8 users. Now MIDs, smart-phones, digital cameras, PMPs, and PNDs can operate as full featured Wi-Fi access points, sharing the portable & mobile devices fixed broadband & 3G connections to the Internet.

“Wi2Wi’s Mobile Embedded Hotspot is a perfect solution for embedded WiFi applications where the Wi2Wi module can operate as the client or a Micro Access point supporting multiple clients simultaneously,” said Reza Ahy, Wi2Wi’s CEO. “The dynamic or static configuring of the portable or handheld devices as a rapidly deployable Access Point in the field, instantly enables a broad spectrum of applications for MIDs, UMPCs, industrial, medical, education, & defense markets.”

MEH technology enables the transformation of portable devices (such as MIDs and mobile handsets) into micro Wi-Fi Access Points where Wi-Fi enabled devices can share the fixed broadband or 3G connection to the internet. It also enables MIDs, (and other portable devices), smart-phones and other Wi-Fi enabled products such as laptops, cameras and printers to communicate with each other without requiring access to the cellular network. This technology allows robust real-time streaming of audio/video content over Wi-Fi networks, and is backward compatible with earlier generation Wi-Fi enabled products.

The MEH technology is available in the three products currently in mass production:
* W2SW0001 – 802.11b/g SiP.
* W2CBW003 – 802.11b/g+BT SiP.
* W2CBWG01 – 802.11b/g +BT+ GPS – Half mini card.