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UWB backers confident despite company closures

...despite the collapse in the last week of two key players. The WiMedia Alliance is an industry body dedicated to promoting the development of ultrawideband... Read more

6 November, 2008 by David Meyer

Ultrawideband partners merge

Two of the major groups in ultrawideband development, the WiMedia Alliance and the Multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA), have merged. The two industry... Read more

3 March, 2005 by Rupert Goodwins

WiMedia Alliance calls it a day

The WiMedia Alliance, an industry group set up to develop and promote ultrawideband technology... Read more

17 March, 2009 by David Meyer

WiGig spec promises 7Gbps wireless streaming

...high-bandwidth transmissions over short distances. However, UWB's backing organisation, the WiMedia Alliance, folded in March, leaving the new Bluetooth standard with a maximum... Read more

11 December, 2009 by David Meyer

Bluetooth 3.0 released without ultrawideband

...companies have folded within the last six months and, in March, the WiMedia Alliance, the industry body backing UWB, also called it a day. The... Read more

22 April, 2009 by David Meyer

Ultrawideband legal in EU within six months

...HP and Nokia, is most widely marketed in the US by the WiMedia Alliance. The Federal Communications Commission in the US only allows UWB under... Read more

8 December, 2006 by David Meyer

CSR benefits from Bluetooth future

...and Ultrawideband markets. Last week, CSR announced that it now supports the WiMedia Alliance form of Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless and will move Bluetooth profiles over... Read more

1 March, 2006 by Graeme Wearden and Rupert Goodwins

Ultrawideband kicks off at CES

...2006. No prices were given. Freescale's major rivals for UWB, the WiMedia Alliance backed by Intel and Texas Instruments among others, is still pushing... Read more

4 January, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Ultrawideband in 2005, but only in America

...WiMedia Common Radio Platform. Finally, WiMedia will guarantee interoperability through certification. "The WiMedia Alliance is like the WiFi Alliance," said Jim Meyer, a board member... Read more

19 February, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins
Key Technologies for Distributed Wireless Networking and ECMA-368 MAC Layer LSI Design Challenges

Key Technologies for Distributed Wireless Networking and ECMA-368 MAC Layer LSI Design Challenges

...MAC) is one of the key technologies enabling distributed wireless networking, and WiMedia Alliance worked on the specification of distributed wireless networking technologies. The specifications... Read more

1 January, 2010
Performance Analysis of Prioritized MAC in UWB WPAN With Bursty Multimedia Traffic

Performance Analysis of Prioritized MAC in UWB WPAN With Bursty Multimedia Traffic

...future Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), carrying various multimedia streams. Recently, the WiMedia Alliance has launched its standard for UWB WPANs, where the Prioritized Channel... Read more

6 October, 2008

Bluetooth to be boosted by marriage to UWB

...plans… The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has said it will combine WiMedia Alliance's ultra-wideband (UWB) with its next-generation Bluetooth wireless technology... Read more

31 March, 2006 by Aaron Tan

Want ultrawideband? Move to America

...WiMedia Common Radio Platform. Finally, WiMedia will guarantee interoperability through certification. "The WiMedia Alliance is like the Wi-Fi Alliance," said Jim Meyer, a board... Read more

19 February, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

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