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The Ultra-Wideband market (UWB) presents attractive
opportunities, primarily for fast video transfer between peripheral devices, such
as digital camcorders, TVs, and PCs, and between set top boxes and TV monitors.
With the high-bandwidth gap left by Wi-Fi in the home networking space, UWB is
seen as the wireless technology that can deliver the bandwidth and QoS that many
consumer electronics companies have been looking for to enable sending multiple
video streams throughout a home. UWB market supporters have been working toward
a standard, and commercial solutions, since the FCC allowed its use in February
2002.
UWB standards issues are being played out in a political arena involving the IEEE,
Freescale, MBOA, and the WiMedia Alliance. Faced with constant standard-setting
delays, MBOA members and Freescale are not waiting for these issues to be resolved.
The stakes are too high with so much R&D and personal executive capital already
invested. Rather than wait for standards to be approved by the IEEE, both plan
to move forward with product rollouts irrespective of the standards’ disputes.
UWB proponents have also made headway toward providing UWB as the PHY and MAC
for the upcoming wireless USB specification, which is expected to help drive UWB
technology into more end products.
The technology, standards, organizations, comparisons to other technologies,
vendor profiles, forecasts by application, chipset price and revenue for 2004-2008
are included in this Ultra-Wideband report ((UWB
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- Executive Summary
- Methodology
- Introduction & Overview
- What is UWB?
- UWB's Basic Characteristics
- Interference
- Less Complexity
- Ranging & Positioning
- Low-Cost Chipset Structure
- Low-Power
- What is Multi-Band?
- Modulations
- PPM
- PAM
- OOK
- M-ary
- BPSK
- QPSK
- OFDM
- Multiple Access Techniques
- History of UWB
- The FCC's Ruling on
UWB
- Opposition
- Standards Development
- UWB as PHY for High Bit-Rate
WPANs
- Task Group 3a: Primary
Camps
- MAC-centered Multilane
OFDM
- UWB as PHY for Low Bit-Rate
WPANs
- UWB PHY & MAC for Wireless
USB
- UWB-related Organizations
- WiMedia Alliance
- MultiBand OFDM Alliance
(MBOA)
- UWB vs. Other Wireless
Interfaces
- Comparison to PAN
- USB
- IEEE 1394
- Wireless PAN
- Comparison to Wireless
LAN
- Why IEEE 802.11x Backers
are Working Frantically on Improving Multimedia Capabilities
- Proprietary - Magis Networks
- Target UWB Markets (Ultra-Wideband
Markets)
- UWB Roadmap
- Home Entertainment
- Residential Proximity Detectors
- Tracking
- Automotive
- Military
- Law Enforcement/Rescue
- Global Interest
- UWB Forecasts (Ultra-Wideband
Forecasts)
- Worldwide UWB Node/Chipset
Forecasts
- Home Theater
- Point-to-point connections
between devices
- Digital Cameras and Camcorders
- Bridge Between PCs and
CE Devices
- UWB Chipset Forecast by
Application
- Worldwide UWB Chipset Average
Sales Price & UWB Revenue Forecast
- UWB Vendor Profiles
(Ultra-Wideband
Vendor Profiles)
- Alereon
- Artimi
- FOCUS Enhancements
- Freescale Semiconductor
- General Atomics
- Intel
- NEC Electronics America
- Philips Semiconductors
- PulseLINK
- Staccato Communications
- Texas Instruments
- Time Domain
- Wisair
- UWB Player Matrix
- Table 1. Wireless LAN and
PAN Standards Matrix
- Table 2. UWB Roadmap (Ultra-Wideband
Roadmap)
- Table 3. UWB Worldwide
Node/Chipset Shipments by Application (Units in Thousands)
- Table 4. UWB Worldwide
Chipset Average Sales Price & UWB Worldwide Revenue (ASP $, Revenue $M)
- Table 5. UWB Player Matrix
(Ultra-Wideband Player Matrix)
- Figure 1. UWB Signal
Compared to Narrowband Transmission
- Figure 2. Multi-Band
Depiction of UWB Transmission
- Figure 3. Band
Group Allocation For MB-OFDM Band plan
- Figure 4. The Vision
of a Common UWB Platform: Multiple Applications Can Run over the Same
Radio Platform
- Figure 5. 1st UWB
Product Roll-Outs
- Figure 6. UWB Worldwide
Nodes/Chipsets by Application (Units in Thousands)
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