Frontline Test Equipment
| Company type | Employee-owned |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communication Test Equipment |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Founder | Eric Kaplan |
| Headquarters | Charlottesville, Virginia , United States |
| Products | Bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy, USB, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, Ethernet, 802.15.4/ZigBee, industrial communication protocols |
| Website | www.fte.com |
Frontline Test Equipment, Inc is a communication trouble-shooting software solution company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Founded in 1985, Frontline became employee-owned company in 2009. Frontline is well known for its expertise in Bluetooth wireless communication technology and is considered world's leader in Bluetooth protocol analyzers [1]. It is also notable for RS-232/422/485 protocol analyzers.
Products
When a new communication technology or product is being developed, hardware and software engineers rely heavily on protocol analyzers, also known as sniffers or bus analyzer to identify problems and speed the development process. Frontline provides PC-based protocol analyzers for developers and industrial applications.
In the past 20 years, Frontline has released several protocol analyzers. Their currently listed products are:
- FTS4BT Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer,
- Frontline Bluetooth low energy Protocol Analyzer[2],
- CRT4BT, Codenomicon Robustness Tester for Bluetooth
- FTS4USB USB Protocol Analyzer,
- MeshDecoder for 802.15.4/ZigBee,
- Serialtest,
- NetDecoder for ControlNet and numerous additional industrial protocols and buses, and
- Ethertest.