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Coming Soon: Ultra Wide Band

Posted by michael on from the cure-for-what-ails-you dept.

JScarpace writes: "Robert X. Cringely has a new article in which he talks about Ultra Wide Band (UWB), a new wireless communications technology which may allow wireless networking speeds up to a gigabit per second. Read the article."

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  1. of course.... by fluxrad · · Score: 3, Funny

    if you have a 48" waist...this technology has been out for years.

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  2. Seti Etc. by Alien54 · · Score: 4, Funny
    The biggest losers, though, would appear to be the radio astronomers. Just as the light pollution from street lamps made work harder for astronomers with optical telescopes, UWB will raise the noise threshold for the radio astronomers.

    Not only that, but what if all of the Alien Civilizations are already using the equivalent of UWB for all of their interstellar communication? This is going to be really hard for SETI to deal with.

    ;-)

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