This is 'Zigbee ready', not Zigbee (Score 1)

The device is described as 'Zigbee ready' which is marketing-speak for an 802.15.4 device with a proprietary application layer - at some stage it may be upgraded for Zigbee compatibility, but right now it can't be compatible with the standard, because there is no standard for Zigbee serial devices.

A true Zigbee device must be tested for inter-operable conformance to an agreed 'profile', but so far only one profile has been created (for lamp/switch nodes). It is estimated that a new profile takes at least 6 months to create, so many manufacturers are jumping the gun and launching products which use the underlying 802.15.4 data transport, plus a proprietary application layer, as it is much quicker and cheaper than using the standard.

However, these manufacturers want to take advantage of the marketing hype surrounding the standard, so have coined the term 'Zigbee ready' to cover these non-standard devices. A neat marketing trick, which works well; for example, it has persuaded Slashdotters to publicise this unit, despite it being similar to other serial-to-wireless adaptors on the market.