From: Mike N. 

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.

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