Clear-Com^® FreeSpeak won Best Product Award at BIRTV2005

News Release: August 24, 2005

Clear-Com, the world’s leading supplier in the design and manufacture of intercom systems in broadcast and live performance sectors, receives the Best Product Award for the FreeSpeak™ digital wireless intercom system today at the BIRTV2005 show in Beijing, China.

BIRTV is one of the largest broadcast equipment shows in the world. The new product award is a prestigious recognition for leading edge products. FreeSpeak™ from Clear-Com was awarded along with a few other products from major broadcast equipment suppliers such as SONY, Thomson, and Panasonic.

The FreeSpeak™ digital wireless intercom system uniquely blends digital matrix technology with a locally distributed wireless “network”—operating license-free in the 1.9 GHz frequency band, the international standard accepted by more than 100 countries. To this capability the system adds broad connectivity to party-line and digital matrix intercom systems. With FreeSpeak™, beltpack-to-beltpack and small-group communication is finally possible within a wireless system.

The system also offers:
• 10 wireless beltpacks in 1-RU
• Point-to-point and small group wireless communications
• Up to 6 communications routes per beltpack
• Create custom coverage zones with up to 10 remote antennas
• Locate active antennas up to 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) from base
• Create 5-character labels for each beltpack and connector
• Customize, name, and assign groups
• Two party-line and four 4-wire connectors; can use them all
• Operates in 1.9 GHz— above television and other wireless communications
• License-free
• Frequency and channel hopping technology automatically finds clear spectrum
• Base functions like a digital matrix; each beltpack has a “virtual port” timeslot
• Secure system—beltpacks are registered to a particular base
• Connect two bases for a 20-beltpack system via Base Loop port