What is the EthIR LAN system and what is it comprised of?
• IR network access. For a laptop computer user, instead of using the PCMCIA Ethernet card connecting to the network, Infrared is used. For a PDA user, this is the way to connect the PDA to the network, in most cases, the Internet. Another popular PDA IR network access usage is for the PDA to synchronize with a server. • OBEX content delivery. Some of the EthIR LAN products, ES301/ES1000/ES3011b support OBEX. It can beam content to PDA and vise versa. The content can be stored in the built-in memory of ES1000, or on the network FTP server to be accessed by ES301 and ES3011b. There are lots of usage of OBEX content delivery, beaming out company information at a trade show, beaming out information in a library and so on.The EthIR LAN is comprised of the EthIR Switch, the EthIR Beam, and firmware which controls the functionality of the EthIR LAN. The EthIR Switch comes in 1, 8 and 16 port models. Each port of the EthIR Switch can support one EthIR Beam to provide infrared network access f
