MindTree’s Bluetooth focus

KAVITHA VIVEK / Bangalore

MindTree Technologies is all set to step up activities in the Bluetooth technology area, having put together a key portfolio of Bluetooth components, including radio component, Bluetooth baseband, LMP (link management protocol), Bluetooth stack and industry specific profiles.

This initiative will be closely linked with the company’s ‘product realisation’ strategy, which focuses on building complete product reference designs to showcase its expertise to customers.

To this end, MindTree is ready with its new small form factor design for a Bluetooth-enabled headset (which features Mindtree’s Bluetooth stack and profile/memory).

The product has been licensed to a US-based customer who will market it globally. MindTree Tech senior vice-president Vinod P Deshmukh said that this was the second product that the company was building following the first LAN access point product.

“MindTree has emerged as one of the niche players in the Bluetooth IP area and we want to further explore this market,” Deshmukh said.

According to industry estimates, in 2002 a total of 35 million Bluetooth devices were sold and this figure is expected to shoot up to 80-90 million devices (a majority of which will be cellphones and wireless headsets) in 2003.

“We expect the headset business to be a volume-driven one, which is why we are seeing high interest levels in this product. We have given the entire reference design, licensed the stack and the profiles specific to the product,” he added.

Some of the other products developed by MindTree include a complete Bluetooth mouse implementation for a Japanese customer and a Bluetooth enabled keyboard for a German client in which MindTree applications and stacks were embedded.

— The Financial Express