The days of wires hanging behind your desktop may be over, the industry is still far from paperless office but a wire less desktop dream may be coming true in near future may be next year. The products, which rid your PC of dangling wires, may start hitting the markets by the end of this year.
The WiMedia alliance is planning to develop a technology known as UWB or ultra wide band. They are planning that this will help whole range of devices in consumer electronics to communicate with each other.
Why they are doing this? Because the USB Implementers Forum, the 1394 Trade Association and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) have chosen the WiMedia Alliance’s version of UWB technology as the foundation for their next-generation networking technology.
This technology is fast when I say fast I really mean it, you will be able to transfer up to 480 megabits per second at around 3 meters but the speed drops as the range increases. Still it will be faster than or equal to the wired version of USB 2.0 and of course much faster than Wi-Fi networks. However, this technology has taken a bit too long in the making thanks to the bitter war being fought between the WiMedia Alliance, led by Intel, and the UWB Forum, led by Freescale, to determine the industry-standard implementation for UWB technology.
Via: News
