Le 02/04/2011 01:56, Carles Gomez Montenegro a écrit :
To me IMHO bluetooth is to 802.15.4 what wifi is to 802.11 - a
marketing name. It seems sufficient to specify ipv6 over
802.15.4 and that would cover all variants of bluetooth. There
is no ipv6-over-802.11n, nor ipv6-over-wifilowpower, for
example.
[...]
Are you maybe referring to 802.15.1 instead of 802.15.4? (Btw,
only some of the first Bluetooth versions were ratified as parts
of 802.15.1)
Right, it may be so, that I may refer to a 802.15 variant (.1
maybe) as bluetooth.
[...]
Well, the point is that, as other folks have already explained:
- Bluetooth and 802.15.4 are *not* variants of the same thing. -
Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 are *not* variants of the same
thing.
The "802.15" prefix in the spec. code (which only applies to some of
the first Bluetooth versions, and e.g. *not* to BLE) may lead you to
confusion.
Yes. I am personally confused about 802.15 being or not Bluetooth and,
by extension, BT-LE.
It may be that BT-LE is going to be backwards compatible with Bluetooth,
just speculating. Otherwise why would they keep the bluetooth name in
BT-LE.
Alex
The analogy with 802.11 variants (as in your example) cannot be done
here.
Carles
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