HomeRF

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HomeRF is a radio technology from an industrial association that was tailored to private households as a cross between DECT and IEEE 802.11 .

The initiating HomeRF Working Group was founded in 1998 and dissolved around the beginning of 2003 because HomeRF was "dead" according to its last chairman. At CeBIT in 2002, Siemens had been promoting HomeRF intensively. There was also no lack of advocacy from other established sponsors such as Intel .

HomeRF combined CSMA / CA from DECT for telephones as isochronous clients and TDMA from IEEE 802.11 for asynchronous clients such as personal computers to form its Shared Wireless Access Protocol (SWAP). Despite this dual approach, HomeRF should be particularly simple and cost-saving. In March 1999, data rates around 1 Mbit / s and the first devices were announced at the end of the year.

At the end of 2001, Siemens brought devices and adapters for HomeRF with 1.6 Mbit / s onto the market, each costing several hundred German marks. In practice, they came to around 0.5 Mbit / s, the software came from Proxim in the USA. In the USA, Proxim offered the same devices with a nominal 10 Mbit / s, but there were no telephones for HomeRF.

HomeRF is not allowed to use the frequency band reserved for DECT. HomeRF is set to the 2.4 GHz frequency band, which is also used by other license-free radio technologies.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HomeRF Working Group disbands . CNET . January 7, 2003. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Radio networks: HomeRF working group dissolves . International Data Group . January 13, 2003. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b HomeRF: Bringing Wireless Connectivity Home (PDF; 364 kB) Intel. March 9, 1999. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ Siemens Gigaset H48data - HomeRF base station for the home network . golem.de . November 29, 2001. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Radio station in the living room: Home-RF . Chip . June 12, 2002. Archived from the original on February 25, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 19, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chip.de
  6. ↑ Home RF 2.0 . Point Davis . November 27, 2001. Retrieved February 19, 2014.