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June 19, 2001 — Bangalore, India [Times of India]

MindTree minting technologies in networking space

MindTree Consulting Pvt Ltd recently announced qualification of their Ethermind Bluetooth™ Protocol stack. Ethermind has been qualified for conformance with Bluetooth™ core specification version 1.1. The conformance testing for the qualification has been carried out on an embedded platform using Vxworks operating system.

The qualification was done by an authorized Bluetooth™ Qualification Body (BQB). The qualification ensures Ethermind is in strict compliance with Bluetooth™ protocol and interoperability standards. By providing a certified solution as a reusable block and through Bluetooth™ Technology services, MindTree enables Bluetooth™ product companies reduce development costs and shorten time to market.

The Ethermind Bluetooth™ protocol stack comes with complete portfolio of Bluetooth™ host protocol stacks and profiles. MindTree's unique offering includes complete conformance and interoperability test system for testing the conformance after integrating the Ethermind solution into the end Bluetooth™ product. This is supported through extensive logging and analyzer tools to verify the compliance to standards.

Bluetooth™ is a low cost wireless technology that provides a mean for replacement of a cable between two devices with universal short-range radio link. Bluetooth™ will enable users to connect a wide range of computing and telecommunications devices easily and simply, without the need to buy, carry, or connect cables.

While speaking on the occasion, Mr S Janakiraman, President, MindTree Consulting said "Ethermind is our flagship MINT (MindTree Incubated Networking Technology) from the stable of MindTree Research - a group within MindTree, dedicated to the development and commercialization of standards based building blocks, which seek to give MindTree's customers a time to market advantage. This qualification, signifies our position as one of the leaders in the technology business, and showcases our ability to execute end-to-end projects for our customers"

The Technology Business of MindTree Consulting has more than 12 clients including leading technology players like Alcatel, Cisco, Epson, Fujitsu, Hitachi, LSI Logic and exciting technology start-ups like Atoga Networks, Mirapoint and Voice Signal Technologies.

For further details contact : Sharmila Saha - sharmilas@mindtree.com