Santa Ana, CA — (press release excerpt) — TROY Wireless today announced EtherWind-Plus, an intelligent 802.11b board-level product designed to allow OEMs to easily incorporate 802.11b wireless connectivity and/or Ethernet connectivity inside of their products. EtherWind-Plus can work with almost any device that has a standard IEEE 1284 parallel port or RS-232 serial port.

The EtherWind-Plus has a compact (2.6 x 3.8 in.) form factor, so it can fit inside many OEM devices without any modifications. Its modular design includes the processor, memory, parallel interface, serial interface, 10BASE-T Ethernet and optional 802.11b built onto the board, and it features industry standard diversity MMCX connectors for supporting a variety of external antenna configurations. All I/O except 802.11b goes through a single convenient 50-pin header for simple integration with the OEM's device.

The EtherWind-Plus supports every popular networking protocol and network operating system, and it works in Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, and most other computing environments. Additionally, security is supported via 128-bit WEP encryption as well as TCP/IP filtering and configurable read and write passwords. The EtherWind-Plus is also field-upgradeable, so that future security and firmware features can easily be added to already deployed devices.

The TROY EtherWind-Plus is available for immediate shipment.

 
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