Wireless USB is Coming - IEEE or No IEEE

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118545,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

"The wireless replacement for USB, ultra wide-band (UWB), will be ready by late December and without the formal approval of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a leading group promoting the revolutionary technology has promised. The spec will be formally launched tomorrow, a move which finally puts UWB standardization outside the IEEE's formal process, where it has been deadlocked for two years. With wireless USB, all peripherals, such as printers, scanners, and other similar devices that connect now with a USB cable, could connect wirelessly."

I was a little ho-hum regarding USB until I read this article and realized what it was capable of:

"The demonstration involved the transmission of live data at 20 megabits per second from a digital camcorder, beaming video footage to a plasma television display. Freescale's current technology can go up to 114 megabits per second, and can transmit up to three simultaneous streams over a single UWB connection."

Up to 114 mbps of real data? Three simultaneous streams? Sweet.

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118545,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

"The wireless replacement for USB, ultra wide-band (UWB), will be ready by late December and without the formal approval of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a leading group promoting the revolutionary technology has promised. The spec will be formally launched tomorrow, a move which finally puts UWB standardization outside the IEEE's formal process, where it has been deadlocked for two years. With wireless USB, all peripherals, such as printers, scanners, and other similar devices that connect now with a USB cable, could connect wirelessly."

I was a little ho-hum regarding USB until I read this article and realized what it was capable of:

"The demonstration involved the transmission of live data at 20 megabits per second from a digital camcorder, beaming video footage to a plasma television display. Freescale's current technology can go up to 114 megabits per second, and can transmit up to three simultaneous streams over a single UWB connection."

Up to 114 mbps of real data? Three simultaneous streams? Sweet.