HomeRF

HomeRF is a wireless technology, a trade association that was designed as a cross between DECT and IEEE 802.11 to private households.

The initiating HomeRF Working Group was established in 1998 and dissolved by the beginning of 2003, because HomeRF was "dead" according to their last chairman. Still CeBIT in 2002, Siemens had campaigned intensively for HomeRF. Also on intercession other established sponsors such as Intel had no lack.

HomeRF combined CSMA / CA of DECT phones for isochronous clients and TDMA of IEEE 802.11 for asynchronous clients such as personal computers to its Shared Wireless Access Protocol (SWAP ). Despite this duality HomeRF should be particularly simple and cost-saving. In March 1999, data rates have been announced to 1 Mbit / s and the first devices of the year.

At the end of 2001, Siemens brought equipment and adapters for HomeRF 1.6 Mbit / s on the market, each of which cost several hundred German marks. In practice, it came to about 0.5 Mbit / s, the software came from Proxim from the U.S.. In the U.S., Proxim offered at that time the same device with nominally 10 Mbit / s, but for HomeRF phones did not exist.

The reserved for DECT frequency band is HomeRF denied. HomeRF is set to the frequency band of 2.4 GHz, which use other RF wireless technologies.