By 1995, just two and half years after IrDA start many IrDA compliant products were already in the end users' hands. This include IR equipped notebook PCs, PDAs, printers, as well as IR adapters for PCs, printers, etc.
When the standards organizations met to define the details of the IrDA interface, they actually created three separate standards. The first is the IrDA-Data standard, which is most often referred to, especially in conversations that include references to Bluetooth. The other two IrDA standards include IrDA-Control and IrDA-Alr, both of which are not referred to because the IrDA data standard is the most prevalently used. The IrDA standard has successfully progressed from IrDA-1.0 (115.2Kbps) to IrDA-1.1 (4Mbps) in just two and half years.
These standards have been implemented on various computer platforms and more recently have become available for many embedded applications. Because of their wide acceptance, the IrDA specifications are now on an accelerated track for adoption as ISO standards.