From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Mike N. wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 22:41:55 -0400, Rich Gauszka
>  wrote:
>
>> Ultrawideband radio or UWB was an obscure concept in the last century,
>> but will become part of everyday life in the current century. Just as
>> the automobile and electricity were important innovative forces in the
>> early part of the 20th century, wireless digital communications is the
>> next big thing.
>
>   WOW!  What a great article - very thorough.   I have worked on much
> smaller subsystems that used the techniques to be used by UWB radios.
> Technology has definitely advanced to the point where these are feasible.
>
>> The WiMedia MAC protocols allow the distributed reservation protoco
>> l to be used in such a manner that everybody respects each other's
>> reservations even though radios can't necessarily hear one another
>> directly. This is a big advancement over Wi-Fi, where the hidden
>> radio problem is not dealt with and a significant source of interference.
>
>   I wonder if this was the cause of some of the problems I saw trying to
> use Wi-Fi in a high density envrionment.


I particularly liked the wireless usb speakers idea where you could just
add speakers to go from stereo to x.1 surround sound etc.

Adam

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