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company's press releases for inclusion on DECTweb 4th November 1999, Paris, France Wireless Home & Office CommunicationsWireless Home & Office CommunicationsDosch & Amand: With the Latest Telecommunications Technology to the Top of the International DECT Key Players "Innovations don't just happen out of the blue," explains Franz Dosch, Managing Director of the Munich IT company Dosch & Amand and also Chairman of the DECT-MMC (DECT-MultiMediaConsortium). And he should know. Because the success story of the company he manages in cooperation with Birgit Amand is the result of hard developmental work and far-sighted financial and marketing management. The success is the development of the world's first full multi-media capable data radio MMAP (MultiMedia Access Profile) which can provide networked wireless access to modern communication services such as Internet, Eurofile transfer, e-mail and fax with complete 128 kBit bandwidth (ISDN) in apartments, offices and even buildings over several stories. The fact that MMAP also completely integrates voice services due to its GAP compatibility is one of the most outstanding features of this development and, at the same time, the explanation why this innovation from Munich is currently introducing a new age in the area of mobile residential, SoHo and business communication. Due to the acceptance of MMAP as DMAP (DECT Multimedia Access Profile) as the new ETSI Standard (EN 301650) for wireless multimedia applications this development is receiving perceptible and continuous support throughout Europe. The technology that Dosch & Amand use in MMAP is the wireless telephone standard DECT already used in more than 100 countries. However, for the complicated requirements of wireless data transmission this had to be considerably optimized and expanded, "The efforts needed for multimedia capable DECT data communication, which - like our concept - works with dynamic bandwidth control and a high level of error protection and is also compatible to the existing DECT wireless telephony are enormously complex in terms of specifications and realization," explains Dosch. "It's not just a matter of chance that there were no solutions of this kind on the market prior to the birth of Dosch & Amand". The process from research, approval of the prototype to the production of the series for the first Dosch & Amand terminal equipment took just about two years: for ISA or PCMCIA cards (for PC and notebook), as well as ISDN-DECT basis station (for connection to the NTBA). There is also a special antenna which is connected to the ISA card. "The time necessary for this can be roughly divided into specification, realization of hardware and software, development of a functional prototype, approval of the prototype, market-ready product," explained Dosch. "For this we worked with 25 top-notch engineers with different specialties in communications for 18 months. This is about 50 percent faster than usual in our sector, due to the fact that there were no old debts or bureaucracy existing in the newly founded company." The actual starting signal for founding the company was in January 1997. The company grew quickly and only a few weeks after its founding three employees had been hired. Today Dosch & Amand employs more than 30 highly-qualified experts, in real-time software engineering, in DECT and hardware development, as well as in management and marketing. In the meantime, the high-tech company has also made a name as a competent partner for DECT based wireless home and office communications far beyond the borders of Germany and Europe. "Creating a contemporarily managed company with great social and technological competence was always a goal that I really hoped to realize. With Dosch & Amand and our employees we are very close to that goal," Dosch modestly describes his start-up company. Dosch & Amand and DECT-MMC The goal of DECT-MMC is to open the market for fully compatible DECT data products which are capable of ad-hoc communications among themselves, for example PC cards (PCMCIA, ISA, PCI, USB), printers, scanners, modems, video cameras, Web phones, Web pads, Web TV's, information appliance systems, home multimedia televisions or even set-top boxes. Dosch & Amand plays a key role in DECT-MMC, not only as the initiator of the consortium, but also due to the fact that DMAP will be the focus of further developmental research in transmission technology for DECT terminal equipment which will be marked with DECT-MMC. Dosch & Amand's excellent technical competence in the sector of DECT data transmission is a further reason. Marketing of Dosch & Amand Terminal Equipment The production of the individual DMAP components has been going on since March 1998 in compliance with the strictest quality guidelines according to DIN EN ISO 9001 in the Deutschland series. Dosch & Amand will continue to offer IT, TC and consumer electronics companies and the industry DMAP, which is protected by numerous patents, and future specifications as OEM product, as well as VAR components for license holders. Corporate Strategy Political and Economic Awards In October 1999 Dosch & Amand was awarded the »Mittelstandsbetrieb Bayern 1999« Memberships Further Information: Tel.: +49 / 89 / 92 20 07-0 CONTACT T.I.E.M. Tel.: +49 / 89 / 388 378-0 Please e-mail us your
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