25 Implementation

25.1 Introduction

This chapter will consider the various issues related to implementing the Bluetooth specification in real products. There are many conflicting design issues, tradeoffs, and the usual cost vs. performance vs. time to market problems which face any product development exercise. However, Bluetooth seems to face a larger and more bewildering array of such issues than most new technologies. This is due—in part—to the sudden explosion in interest from both suppliers and users of the technology and also to the technology itself and the overriding need for low cost and “out of the box experience,” which Bluetooth savvy people like to refer to. That is, Bluetooth-enabled products absolutely have to work reliably and ...

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