1. WiCon panel opines on state of wireless standards.
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Prophet, Graham and Granville, Fran
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TRADE shows , *TELECOMMUNICATION , *BROADBAND communication systems , *PRODUCT demonstrations - Abstract
This paper highlights the Wireless Connectivity (WiCon) show held in London, England in May 2005. At the WiCon, Mike McCamon, executive director of the UWB Forum, described as an utter mess the current situation of competing personal-wireless-connectivity standards. He likens the proliferation of standards to the situation in wired networking around 1990. The show provided a snapshot of progress toward functional ultra wideband (UWB) in its native mode, Freescale operated a streaming-video demonstration with a claimed 100-megabyte per second link spanning 15 to 20 meters. This demonstration employed the first multichip implementation of its direct-sequence UWB silicon, and the company promises further integration. Visitors could also file transfer over a wireless-Universal Serial Bus link using first silicon of Staccato Communications' single-chip all-complementary metal oxide semiconductor offering. Staccato envisages the technology's reaching the market on a time scale that would see external adapters for file transfer from PC to external hard drive early in 2006 and reaching high-end mobile-phone platforms in 2007.
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- 2005