Eleven Engineering offers wireless audio-streaming tech

SAN JOSE: Eleven Engineering Incorporated, based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is offering wireless audio-streaming technology.

According to John Sobota, chief executive of Eleven Engineering, the company will give a brand name to its wireless audio-streaming technology and also display design wins for its 2.4 GHz initiative, code-named Cecille, at the Consumer Electronics Show to be held in January 2010.

In a statement, Sobota said the company’s approach includes proprietary technology that has been optimized to stream wireless audio from portable devices to headphones or specially equipped speakers inside a room. In this regard, Eleven Engineering will compete with proprietary approaches used by firms like Kleer Incorporated and Avnera Corporation, as well as standards like Bluetooth.

John Sobota claimed in the statement that Eleven Engineering is “basically coming out with a better alternative to Bluetooth for music.”

Eleven Engineering has been making wireless audio subsystems for venders of home theatres since 2004.

Eleven Engineering said it plans to start off its business in wireless audio-streaming technology by offering a turnkey package, which includes transmit and receiver chips built into a variety of external speakers and dongles.

The company is also working on a follow-on chip set, including a proprietary 2.4 GHz RF device, meant to be embedded in systems, beginning from 2011.

Eleven Engineering, founded in 1992, started shipping consumer wireless audio modules in 2004. These devices are now being used by a wide array of firms such as variety Altec Lansing, Infinity, and JBL.