Eleven Engineering Introduces SKAA™

TOKYO, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Eleven Engineering today introduced SKAA™, a new high-fidelity personal wireless audio standard targeting portable music sources, to the Japanese market. Launched outside of Japan earlier this year at CES2010 where SKAA™ received an Innovations Award for Enabling Technologies, the SKAA™ brand and technology has now been licensed to more than 20 partner companies worldwide. Today's announcement signals the start of a 2nd phase of licensing to begin in Japan.  

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"This year over a billion personal audio sources will be sold worldwide. It's an unmistakable trend; portable electronics are in, and fixed appliance electronics are out," said John Sobota, CEO of Eleven. "With a built-in operating system and SKAA's fleet of already-developed transmitters, we are enabling our customers to deliver their receive side products to market in a fraction of the time that it would take otherwise."

Eleven will be exhibiting at CEATEC Japan in Makuhari Messe, Tokyo from October 5th-9th. Conference attendees are invited to visit Eleven at booth 2A18 for a demonstration of SKAA™ and to speak with Eleven Engineering product experts.

About SKAA

Unlike other wireless audio technologies operating in the crowded 2.4GHz band, SKAA™ delivers signal robustness with best-in-class "Coexistence", meaning that while SKAA™ is transporting high-fidelity music to your speakers… your Wi-Fi Internet link, your neighbor's Wi-Fi, and the myriad of other 2.4GHz wireless products around you are also working great. At the heart of SKAA™, Eleven uses its patented Walking Frequency Diversity (WFD™) transmission protocol to deliver this unique combination of both excellent Coexistence and Quality of Service.

Eleven now supplies three types of transmitters: Apple's 30 pin connector for iPhone/iPod/iPad; USB for laptops and netbooks; and Analog for MP3 players and cell phones such as the Sony Ericsson Experia™ smartphone. With the transmit side fully developed, SKAA Partners can focus on creating great, innovative receiver products. Eleven will be adding more transmitter types throughout 2011 and beyond.  

Other key features of the SKAA standard include:

• 100% partner brand interoperability
• Low power consumption
• Low latency
• Excellent fidelity of sound
• An ability to bond to up to 4 separate receiver nodes, thereby enabling true stereo and wireless subwoofer configurations, as well as multi-user social interaction.

About Eleven Engineering

Eleven Engineering is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Edmonton, Canada, whose product lines provide designers, developers, and manufacturers with rock-solid, mass-production-ready modules and SiPs ("System in Package") for a wide range of wireless audio applications.

iPhone® and iPod® are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.

Xperia™ is a trademark of Sony Ericsson, Inc.

SKAA™ and WFD™ are trademarks of Eleven Engineering, Inc.

SOURCE Eleven Engineering