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Inside Contactless has announced a cooperative venture with Infineon Technologies for the development of a joint reference architecture for next generation, interoperable NFC solutions.
The cooperation combines the strengths and strategies of both companies to reinforce the current adoption of contactless payment and communications technologies worldwide and ensures smooth interoperability between the transceiver of Inside Contactless and the security microcontrollers of Infineon especially for NFC applications. 116.30.192.184 This article is copyright 2007 UsingRFID.com.
Planned architecture
The planned reference architecture will combine Inside''s NFC capacities with Infineon''s secured connectivity technology, allowing banking services to converge on the handset. This will provide new opportunities for handset manufacturers, telecom operators, banks and other media, travel and entertainment industry to develop new mass market services.
With major industry back-up in their respective fields of application, Inside Contactless and Infineon have decided to join forces in order to further extend the integration of their technologies, and create a favourable ground for the deployment of a new industrial ecosystem, based on new banking and telecommunications services.
Mifare compatibility
Inside''s product offering will become fully interoperable with the Mifare protocol, opening a wide spectrum of services, especially in the transport industry.
Philippe Martineau, Executive Vice President, NFC business line for Inside Contactless, said: "Interoperability with Mifare will improve our capacity to deliver flexible solutions to our clients across the world, and act as market facilitator for NFC adoption."
"NFC has the potential to complement today''s contactless applications," added Dr. Helmut Gassel, Vice President und General Manager, Chip Card & Security ICs at Infineon Technologies.
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