Ultra-Wideband At Death's Door? Standards dispute claims another startup.... Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is a radio modulation technique noted for its potential to offer blazing speeds at very short ranges (great for in-home HD distribution over wireless or coaxial). Unfortunately UWB has been bogged down in a standards war for many years, and now GigaOM notes that the technology has seen better days, as UWB startup WiQuest this week closed its doors and laid off the company's 120 employees.
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  ThrowDemsOutIf you can't convince 'em, confuse 'emPremium
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kudos:4 |  Too bad - a wireless entertainment center would be ideal
Someday, maybe!!
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Grand Forks Afb, ND | Re: Too bad - a wireless entertainment center would be ideal I'd rather see a single cable that plugs into everything for inter-communication. There's too much RF/E-M/sattelite signals flying around.
AND too much RF flying around has a propensity to conflict with other nearby wireless equipment.
I'd rather a single cable option.
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kudos:4 | said by ThrowDemsOut:Too bad the technology and standards bodies couldn't have developed to the point that we could have a wireless entertainment center. Speakers, STBs, HD TV, game consoles, PCs, etc all communicating over a dozen feet or less without having wires running everywhere. Someday, maybe!! But then MONSTER cable would go bankrupt 
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| Re: Too bad - a wireless entertainment center would be ideal said by dvd536:But then MONSTER cable would go bankrupt Couldn't happen to a more deserving company.
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Smithfield, NC | No Credit With the current credit contraction, it's going to be the same story everywhere. No business that isn't well established will be able to get money to keep operating. Blame the big banks gambling on others' performance with others' money.
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Lake Zurich, IL | Re: No Credit There's still tons of venture capital available to startups (the right ones of course). That doesn't come from banks, and the real players are seeding capital right now for when the economy is blazing in a few years. | |
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| | not a modulation scheme UWB is not a modulation technique - WiQuest and others in the field used OFDM. Originally, it was envisioned that exploitation of the spectrum would use pulse radio, which is a pretty novel modulation scheme, but OFDM turned out to be a better way. | |
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kudos:15 | Doesn't HAVE to be short range. Ultra Wideband also offers the potential for blazing speeds at enormous distances. I think the thing people were touting was gigabit speeds at ranges measured in kilometers while using a fraction the power of a cellphone.
FCC regulation killed off that dream, which is the reason why it's been limited to very short ranges. Not because the technology can't, but because the FCC is paranoid about interference, and so they effectively neutered the most promising communication technology in the past twenty years. | |
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Bloomfield, CT | Re: Doesn't HAVE to be short range. said by Guspaz:FCC regulation killed off that dream, which is the reason why it's been limited to very short ranges. Not because the technology can't, but because the FCC is paranoid about interference, and so they effectively neutered the most promising communication technology in the past twenty years. "Paranoid about Interference"
You mean interference with TV Broadcast, precision landing systems at airports, satellite communications, radio astronomy, etc. Let me see if I can think of any other licensed service that has $millions invested and hopes that the FCC provide an interference free spectrum guaranteed by their license. | |
| | | | said by Guspaz:Ultra Wideband also offers the potential for blazing speeds at enormous distances. I think the thing people were touting was gigabit speeds at ranges measured in kilometers while using a fraction the power of a cellphone. Touting it and actually getting it to work are two different things. However, I don't recall anyone touting kilometer ranges; it appeared to be mainly PANs and very short range operations that were targeted. Could you provide a link to someone touting multi-kilometer UWB links?
FCC regulation killed off that dream, which is the reason why it's been limited to very short ranges. Not because the technology can't, but because the FCC is paranoid about interference, and so they effectively neutered the most promising communication technology in the past twenty years.
How did the FCC neuter it? I don't recall the FCC passing any new regulations particular to UWB, though admittedly I haven't been following it closely. UWB can be operated under Part 15 now, and according to your paragraph above it can go for kilometers using a "fraction of the power of a cellphone", so it would follow that operation under the current Part 15 regulations would be quite feasible. | |
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