Qualcomm Demonstrates World's First Streaming Video through 3G Bluetooth Wireless Connection

date: September 20, 2001

Qualcomm today announced the world's first video-streaming demonstration through a CDMA2000 1X/Bluetooth connection. The demonstration was performed on September 13, 2001, at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) Wireless I.T. & Internet 2001 convention, held in San Diego. Using a 3G CDMA2000 1X handset based on the Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) MSM5100 Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipset and system software solution connected through a laptop via a Bluetooth dial-up network, the demonstration achieved seamless connectivity. Enabling real-time streaming video, the MSM5100 chip provided data rates exceeding 144 kbps over the wide area network (WAN), with the Bluetooth connection providing comparable data rates over the wireless personal area network (WPAN).

"Combining the advanced 3G multimedia capabilities of our MSM5100 chipset and system software with Bluetooth's ability to link a wide variety of devices wirelessly has made the promise of wireless connectivity for real-time streaming video a reality," said Luis Pineda, vice president of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. "Integrating Bluetooth wireless connectivity technology with CDMA will provide consumers worldwide with a true wireless multimedia Internet experience as well as a low-cost solution for handset manufacturers."

The MSM5100 chipset provides the most efficient solution to integrating Bluetooth digital baseband processing into a comprehensive 3G CDMA2000 1X chipset and system software solution. Bluetooth is a short-range radio technology that eliminates the need for wired connections between digital devices, and is becoming an industry standard to ensure that computing and telecommunications equipment can communicate easily. Bluetooth provides a universal bridge to existing data networks, a peripheral interface, and a mechanism to form small, private ad hoc groupings of connected devices away from fixed network infrastructures.

The MSM5100 solution allows manufacturers to develop state-of-the-art 3G CDMA2000 1X handsets that feature the highest level of integration and the most complete set of positioning, multimedia and other advanced features available in the wireless industry. The MSM5100 chipset incorporates QCT's Wireless Internet Launchpad suite, enabling a broad range of new terminal products, applications and Internet services, including the gpsOne position location solution and Bluetooth, as well as multimedia features such as Qtunes Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG-1) Layer-3 (MP3) player software and Compact Media Extension (CMX) Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)-based multimedia software. The MSM5100 device also supports the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) applications platform.

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