Based on a cooperation with Frontline Test Equipment Inc., connectBlue now expands its offering with Packet Sniffers & Protocol Analyzers. These tools provide efficient communication verification and troubleshooting for Bluetooth, Wireless LAN and IEEE 802.15.4 wireless solutions. For the tough industrial applications that utilize these tools, the result will be faster debugging, testing and verification cycles.

“The new Packet Sniffers & Protocol Analyzers help to isolate, identify, and fix communication problems with precision and accuracy,” explained Rolf Nilsson, President of connectBlue. “For the business, this solution means reduced down time and increased production. For the developer, it means shorter debugging, testing and verification cycles: In other words, these tools allow products to get to market faster.”

The trouble-shooting tools for debugging communication solutions are Windows based and based on a common protocol-decoding engine. Besides the Packet Sniffers & Protocol Analyzers for Bluetooth, Wireless LAN and IEEE 802.15.4 there is a wide range of Industrial Protocols analyzing products available. The tools not just decrease the development time but they also become efficient tools to maintain networks and to trouble-shoot equipment in the field.

The Packet Sniffers & Protocol Analyzers offer protocol decoding at the bit level, and enable the rapid development of custom decodes for proprietary protocols and extensions to existing protocol decoders. The tools enable shorter and less costly development intervals for communication network equipment and applications, faster and more efficient network installations, and improved mean-time-to-repair following equipment and network outages.

About connectBlue

connectBlue™ is a leading provider of wireless solutions for demanding applications in hygiene, rough environment, mobility, control, personal safety and security areas. Based on Bluetooth technology, Wireless LAN and 802.15.4, connectBlue provides ready-to-use products and modules as well as custom design solutions in both hardware and software. connectBlue was founded in 2000 and has offices in Malmö, Sweden and Chicago, USA. For more information, please visit www.connectblue.com

About Frontline Test Equipment, Inc.

Founded in 1991, Frontline Test Equipment, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and supports cost-effective, PC-based data communication test tools for the computer and communications industries. (Please see www.fte.com for details.) Frontline is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a worldwide installed base of data communication analyzers and testers exceeding 40,000.