Not exactly rocket science but all the IRDA transceivers I've found are horizontally mounted where the tranducers are "in-line" to the board, and designed to be mounted at the PCB edge.
I need a transceiver where I can mount the device in the middle of a board where the transceiver points away, normal to the PCB. I don't really want to resort to use a prism to convert a board edge emitting device to a vertical emitting device.
Can anyone help?