Ultrawideband Partners Merge
News Two of the major groups in ultrawideband development, the WiMedia Alliance and the Multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA), have merged. The WiMedia-MultiBand OFDM Alliance promises a tight schedule for the delivery of products, which are expected to start...
[March 3, 2005, 16:00]
Standards Wrangle Threatens Ultrawideband
News The Multiband OFDM Alliance is backed by Intel and Texas Instruments, while its rival group is headed up by Motorola, XtremeSpectrum and ParthusCeva. At an IEEE meeting earlier this month, the 802.15.3a working group failed to back favourite...
[September 26, 2003, 14:15]
Motorola Buys Wireless Chipmaker
News The company's sole competition is the MultiBand OFDM Alliance, which is a group of 34 technology heavyweights that includes new member Nokia. Steve Turner, UWB business development manager at Multiband OFDM Alliance member Texas Instruments...
[November 11, 2003, 11:45]
System Design Considerations For Ultra-Wideband Communication
White Papers The MultiBand OFDM Alliance (MBOA) proposal for 802.15.3a uses Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation in a bandwidth of 528 MHz. This paper discusses issues associated with high-data-rate pulsed ultra-wideband system design...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Ultrawideband Tribes Square Up For Standards Fight
News Texas Instruments, one of the leading chipmakers with relevant expertise, has joined the Intel-led Multiband Consortium, which now calls itself the Multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA). The next generation of ultra-fast wireless networking is taking...
[July 15, 2003, 11:58]
UWB Chips Debut With Gigabit Wireless In Sight
News Ultrawideband product development is split into two competing technologies, Freescale's Direct Sequence UWB (DS-UWB) and the Intel/TI-led Multiband OFDM Alliance's MB-OFDM. Motorola's semiconductor division, Freescale, has announced availability of...
[June 7, 2004, 15:45]
Intel Outlines Its Ultrawideband Position
News On one side, backed by Intel, is the Multiband-OFDM Alliance (MBOA) with its Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation (OFDM) technology. It’s easy to make OFDM choose not to use bands, if that’s required.
[November 13, 2003, 11:25]
Motorola Fights On In Ultrawideband Battle
News The fight over the ultrawideband (UWB) wireless data standard has been going on for nearly a year, between the group headed by Intel and Texas Instruments - the Multiband OFDM Alliance, or MBOA -- and that by Motorola, which favours Direct...
[March 5, 2004, 9:10]
Ultrawideband Standards Split Deepens
News The major special interest group, the Multiband-OFDM Alliance or MBOA, has already effectively abandoned the 802.15.3 task group which was to have created an 802.11-style set of standards. Hopes are fading that the next generation of wireless...
[March 17, 2004, 13:30]
Ultrawideband Standards War Brewing, Says Intel
News The two main camps are the Multiband-OFDM Alliance (MBOA) and the Motorola/XtremeSpectrum group: each has a technology that they claim conforms to American regulations for the very high-speed, low-power wireless data UWB system.
[November 13, 2003, 10:45]
Samsung Does Ultrawideband Deal
News Motorola and Xtreme Spectrum back the competing UWB proposal, and both companies want the Federal Communications Commission to rule on whether the technology that's being pushed by the TI-backed group -- the MultiBand OFDM Alliance -- complies...
[August 12, 2003, 11:00]
