Wireless USB By Late 2005

[IGBT]

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Wireless USB runs over the WiMedia Alliance's flavor of ultrawideband which uses the WiMedia MB-OFDM MAC and PHY. The WiMedia Alliance's version of UWB promises bandwidth of 480Mb/s at 3 meters and 110Mb/s at 10 meters.

It's one of the two specs for UWB that are in bitter competition for IEEE certification. The other is promoted by the UWB Forum and primarily associated with Freescale Semiconductor. Neither has received ratification by the IEEE and products based on both are expected to ship this year.

The Wireless USB Promoter Group consists of seven companies: Agere Systems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Philips Semiconductors and Samsung, and designed the Wireless USB Specification with "the support of more than 100 contributor members." The Wireless USB group plans to work with the USB-IF to promote consumer adoption of products using the new technology

 

[Zepper]

I'm pretty sure I've already seen wireless USB adapters out there for printers and such.

.bh.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

I second that.

 

[Melectricus]

Read the article......

 

[Pariah]

No, I think this is a wireless version of USB, not a wireless standard that is connected to a PC via USB. This would mean that any USB device could be wireless. Kind of interesting actually. 480Mb/s would mean that you could have USB2 hard drives not physically attached to your computer, and possible mountable by multiple computers in the area with good transfer rates. This could be a much cheaper alternative to the current NAS options for the home user.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I think they should call it: blue tooth.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I think they should call it: blue tooth.

Maybe with a cavity!