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1995
Esslinger Engineering company´s close relationships with broadcasters,
mainly the WDR in Cologne and the Deutsche Telekom, paved the way for
other datacasting solutions than RDS and the DAB product line was born.
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1995 - 2000
Esslinger Data Engineering was privileged to be able to join the DAB pilot
project in North-Rhine Westphalia from its inception in 1995. Much
expertise and numerous industrial contacts were gained during the time
between 1995 and 2000. Many doors were opened with the valuable support of
Mr. Thomas Wächter, Deutsche Telekom, and Dr. Hermann Lossau,
governmental representative within the DAB pilot project society.
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1998
During the DAB pilot phase, close contacts were also established with the
German DAB platform at Munich, with the Bavarian DAB pilot project and
particularly with Grundig as its main DAB receiver supplier.
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1996 - 2000
Between 1996 and 2000 the Esslinger roots, infrared technology, were
revived by designing protocol stacks according to the well-known IrDA
standard. Esslinger IrDA technology was used in products mainly from the
PC peripherials and printer world. In late 2000 the entire IrDA product
range was sold to allow us to fully focus on the key business, DAB and
RDS.
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2003
Highly charged by a complex DAB customer project, we almost missed to
celebrate the company's tenth birthday :-)
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2004 - 2008
A number of prestigeous DAB challenges were won during these years, such
as:
2004:
Development of a portable, small, standalone DAB data receiver for the
Wallonian Ministry of Transportation. This receiver, with its mimimalistic
hardware design, founded our CDR product line.
2005:
Development of the Cabvision
DAB receiver unit, and providing technical DAB consulting to the Cabvision
London consortium.
The Cabvision receiver was the first one that employed our new, embedded
DAB Software Toolkit. The design comes with an onboard MOT decoder, a
filesystem and a file server.
Still 2005:
Esslinger becomes development partner of Atmel's
DAB department and licenses data service decoding IP for usage within
Atmel's ATR2740 DAB Digital Processing Device.
2006:
Premium car manufacturer Audi
decides to license Esslinger's DAB data service processing for their next
generation of vehicles. The solution we've proposed to Audi is a modified
variant of the well-tried Cabvision design, which has been operating since
2005 in hundreds of London taxis. The Audi design fully incorporates our
embedded DAB Software Toolkit.
2007:
Part of SAAB's onboard
navigation systems are equiped with Esslinger's RDS decoders.
2008:
Audi starts to sell Esslinger's DAB data technology in their A5, A6, A8,
Q5 and Q7 series (A4 to follow in early 2009).
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Today
about 60% of our turnaround falls to DAB developments and
consulting. The remaining 40% are achieved by our RDS product line and
by various other services. Although it is no secret that the world has
struggled to accept DAB, we are proud to say that our DAB department has
been profitable since 1998.
Interest in our RDS reception technology has received a great push during
the recent years, thanks to the fact that more and more broadcasters
throughout the world switch to RDS, providing good and helpful contents
(such as the Traffic Message Channel TMC).
The Esslinger company handles radio broadcasting projects from all around
the world and has representatives in France and in the USA.
See this page for a list of
reference customers.
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