Company Bluetooh Special Interest Group recently introduced the world to Bluetooth 4.2, which has a significant improvement in the speed of data transfer, protection, and other more or less significant changes, but first things first.
According to data published on the official website BSIG, Bluetooth 4.2 is capable of transferring data directly through an Internet connection running on the latest version of the protocol IPv6 / 6LoWPAN. Now you do not need to synchronize your device through a common access point or use different “hubs”. In addition, the data rate increased by 2.5 times and increased throughput as much as 10 times.
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Today, the Internet is increasingly infused into various spheres of human activity. Smart watches, smart phones, and various gadgets, working equipment, cars, houses, entire cities – the whole world steeped in routine network where a huge role played by the confidentiality of data.
One of the features of the new version is an advanced protection system – now no one from the outside will not be able to track your connection to the device, Bluetooth 4.2 will make every effort to ensure the confidentiality of your data with a new encryption system.
Due to IPv6 / 6LoWPAN and the work done, programmers were able to achieve more efficient use of the battery, now the device has Bluetooth 4.2, will work much longer than usual.
Devices with Bluetooth 4.1 can be updated by software updates are not earlier than 2015.
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