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XtremeSpectrum and Motorola Team on UWB for 802.15.3a PAN Standard
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:39:49 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ibd com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:33:45 +0900 XtremeSpectrum and Motorola Team on UWB By Vikki Lipset http://www.ultrawidebandplanet.com/technology/article/0,,10850_2109651,00.ht ml In a big show of support for XtremeSpectrum, Motorola's Semiconductor Product Sector this week announced that it will use the company's ultrawideband (UWB) technology in its own products and also backed Xtreme's UWB proposal at the IEEE 802.15 Working Group meeting in Dallas. The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to bring UWB technology to market, said Paul Ballentine, director of competitive strategy for the Wireless and Broadband Systems Group at Motorola SPS. While the companies would not reveal details of the agreement, Chris Fisher, Xtreme's vice president of marketing, said that the two companies would eventually deliver joint products to the marketplace. Ballentine said Motorola looked at various alternatives in the UWB market, but decided to partner with Xtreme in part because they already had working silicon. In conjunction with the agreement, Motorola decided to support Xtreme's proposal for the 802.15.3a physical layer standard. More than 20 companies presented proposals for a new wireless personal area network (WPAN) standard at the IEEE meeting this week. The proposals ranged from singleband approaches that keep UWB as a single, wide wave, to multiband approaches that divide the spectrum allotted for UWB into 500MHz bands. Ballentine said XtremeSpectrum's "dual-band" approach made the most sense to Motorola since it supports high data rates and multiple users, but is also flexible and scalable. "Their approach is very consistent with getting regulatory approval," he said. "And if future approval opens up more bandwidth, this approach can be scaled. By taking advantage of all that the law allows and only making sacrifices where necessary, you still preserve the performance that UWB inherently has." March 13, 2003 -- Robert J. Berger - Internet Bandwidth Development, LLC. In Tokyo as Glocom visiting research fellow through April 2003 Cell: +81 80-3121-6128 Work: +81 3-5411-6613 http://www.glocom.ac.jp eFax: +1-408-490-2868 rberger () glocom ac jp rberger () ibd com ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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