Clarinet Systems Teams with ASUS Technology to Provide 4Mbps FIR PDA Connectivity

Clarinet Systems, Inc. ( www.clarinetsys.com) a provider of wireless infrared connectivity solutions for handhelds, has announced completion of FIR performance testing for the ASUS A620 PocketPC PDA operating with Clarinet's EthIR LAN wireless infrared switches.  Clarinet's testing revealed that, at 4 Mbps connectivity speeds, FIR  significantly reduces the synchronization time between PDA's and other devices by a factor of 10 or more times over SIR (115 Kbps) in all applications in which infrared networking is used. For example, in Clarinet's tests, a 1 MB file transfer through an EthIR LAN switch was completed in 10 seconds with the ASUS A620 FIR-equipped PDA as compared to 112 seconds with another  manufacturer's SIR-equipped PocketPC PDA.  When tested against Palm OS SIR-equipped devices, the file transfer speed of the ASUS A620 FIR PDA  via the EthIR LAN switch was over 20 times faster.  Specific performance test data can be seen on Clarinet's web site.

Clarinet Systems' EthIR LAN series wireless infrared network switches are used in industrial, enterprise, healthcare, hospitality, educational and other markets where users value the capability that Clarinet's EthIR LAN switches  provide to quickly and easily establish network access with users' PDA's through the infrared ports that are built into  virtually all handheld devices as standard options.  4 Mbps FIR functionality is standard across the entire ASUS PocketPC PDA family of products. Additional information about the ASUS PocketPC PDA series is available at http://usa.asus.com/products/pda/.