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Bluetooth Gets Wider With WiMedia
News The industry body behind Bluetooth is to adopt the WiMedia Ultrawideband (UWB) technology for the next generation of its standard. The first Bluetooth products with UWB are due to appear near the end of 2007 with mass production in 2008, according...
[March 29, 2006, 17:20]
Ultra Wideband Signal Impact On IEEE 802.11b And Bluetooth Performances
White Papers This paper presents the results of a co-existence study investigating the impact of ultra wideband (UWB) interference on IEEE802.11b and Bluetooth networks. Preliminary results showed that, under the extreme conditions of this experiment, both...
[November 22, 2005, 0:00]
Is Bluetooth Doomed?
News According to analysts, Ultrawideband (UWB) and NFC, as used on the London Underground's Oyster cards, could come out on top, with Bluetooth heading the way of the dodo. A new report from research firm Analysys has found that Bluetooth will face a...
[April 22, 2005, 10:00]
Samsung Does Ultrawideband Deal
News The two companies claim the partnership is the "first commercial deal" that involves UWB, which creates a short-range wireless connection with a data-transfer rate of up to 480 megabits per second. A Samsung representative did not indicate when its...
[August 12, 2003, 11:00]
First Wireless USB Products Certified
News Like the upcoming Bluetooth 3.0 (due next year), WUSB is based on ultrawideband (UWB), a low-power, high-bandwidth, short-range radio technology. Aside from WUSB and the new Bluetooth standard, other uses for UWB include the development of wall...
[July 25, 2007, 11:45]
Wireless Standards Are 'a Complete And Utter Mess'
News That is very different to what Bluetooth or UWB or Wi-Fi are going after," said Heile. The proliferation of competing wireless standards risks confusing technology users and preventing such technologies from gaining mass-market acceptance...
[May 26, 2005, 19:20]
CSR Benefits From Bluetooth Future
News Last week, CSR announced that it now supports the WiMedia Alliance form of Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless and will move Bluetooth profiles over to the new standard. This means that existing and tested Bluetooth functions, such as audio, object...
[March 1, 2006, 16:35]
Photos: Mobile Mania At 3GSM
News UWB will also form the basis for the third generation of Bluetooth, which will hopefully arrive in the middle of 2008. UWB has been around in the States for a while, but is only now being allowed into Europe.
[February 16, 2007, 13:46]
Ultralateband Disappoints Wi-Fi Sniffing Bluetooth
Blog But the story is an undeniable kick up the physical interface for UWB. From the first time I saw UWB in action at an Intel Developer Forum in 2002, I've been extremely keen on the idea: it's not every day that a brand-new fundamental idea in...
[November 1, 2007, 11:20]
UWB Products To Debut Despite Standards Stalemate
News Unlike wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, 802.11b and 802.11a, which work in relatively narrow bandwidths, UWB operates over a wide range of frequency bands simultaneously by sending very broad but very low-power pulses.
[January 6, 2005, 9:00]
UWB Standards Rivals Offer Royalty-free Technology
News That's much faster than Bluetooth, a rival wireless technology now used in many of the same devices, such as cell phones and personal digital assistants, some believe UWB is also destined for. The promise was made by Motorola and XtremeSpectrum...
[October 29, 2003, 16:05]
Performance Evaluation Of TCP In An Integrated WPAN And WLAN Environment
White Papers Short-range low power radio frequency systems such as Bluetooth and UWB enable the deployment of Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN). The effect of the number of active short-range devices (Bluetooth in this case) in a piconet is studied in this...
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
Bluetooth In Action
White Papers Referred to as UWB or Ultra Wideband, it promises data transfer of up to 480 MB a second - while most current Bluetooth devices transfer data up to 721 KB a second. In the United States, Bluetooth gets absolutely no respect.
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Lenovo To Bring UWB Laptops To Europe Next Year
News UWB is also the basis for the next generation of Bluetooth, but that updated technology is still in the testing phase. The manufacturer has previously brought out notebooks — last year's T61 and T61p machines — that use ultrawideband (UWB), but not...
[August 27, 2008, 15:20]
From Mesh To UWB: Untangling The Wireless Future
News In the next few years, the arrival of services such as ultrawideband (UWB) will make the market even more complex. In the future, Greene says, this type of seamless roaming will be extended not just across Wi-Fi services, but also networks using...
[April 16, 2004, 12:35]
Motorola Buys Wireless Chipmaker
News Motorola has for some time supported XtremeSpectrum's ultrawideband (UWB) technology, which is a rival to Bluetooth that is capable of creating wireless connections that transfer data at rates as high as 100 megabits per second.
[November 11, 2003, 11:45]
Ultrawideband - Almost Ready
Blog Lest we forget, UWB will form the basis for all sorts of goodies like wireless USB and the next generation of Bluetooth, so I think most people in the industry are of the "sooner the better" mindset. Last year we exclusively broke the story that...
[June 12, 2007, 12:45]
EC Officially Backs Ultrawideband
News UWB technology's first application seems set to be in wireless USB, which will be followed closely by UWB's incorporation into the third generation of Bluetooth. The European Commission has officially given its support to the high-bandwidth...
[February 22, 2007, 12:26]
Ultrawideband May Be Just Too Wide
News Ultrawideband, better known as UWB, is something the wireless industry has never dealt with before. But UWB operates across a wide range of these so-called frequencies all at once. Beginning last February, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...
[February 13, 2003, 9:41]
60 GHz Networking, The Story So Far
Blog That's in the same family as Bluetooth, Zigbee and ultrawideband.and it's funny that nobody's mentioning UWB, which is far further advanced and has pretty well identical speed and range potential. It's noticable that IBM is referencing Wi-Fi in its...
[October 22, 2007, 18:39]
