The Need for Speed

 
The Need for Speed
Recognizing the importance of bringing this new technology to market on the fastest possible
schedule, the Bluetooth SIG was organized into a number of topic-specific working groups.
Each working group attacked a particular portion of the Specification—for example, there
was a working group focused on technology profiles, and another on the radio and broadband
layers of the technology.
Given the urgency of their task, most working groups met every few weeks, in locations all
around the world. Most working group meetings were held at the locations of the SIG’s
founding companies—Lund, Sweden (Ericsson); Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and
Hawthorne, New York (IBM); Chandler, Arizona (Intel); and Tampere, Finland (Nokia).
When in-person meetings couldn’t be arranged, conference calls were substituted.
Because the engineers working on the Specification were so geographically dispersed,
communication outside these meetings became vitally important. Given the differences in
time and in language between locations, e-mail became the primary messaging medium.