Coming Soon: Ultra Wide Band

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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Re:Positioning

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UWB will not make GPS "obsolete," it will "break" GPS by raising the noise floor in the GPS frequency range. GPS signals are very low power (at the receiver), so adding noise by having millions of UWB devices contaminating the GPS frequencies will, in effect, jam any GPS device.

Well

[autopr0n]

He certanly seems taken with the technology. It would certanly be cool if this technology did free us of all our technological woes, but given that I'm not really a radio engineer, I'll remain skeptical untill it happens :)

Anyway, it would certanly be cool if it were true, but I do have trouble beliving that even if it were the FCC would let all that bandwidth go for free, I mean, I bet even if UWB does end up in wide use, it'll still be controlled by the same local monopolies that controll bandwidth now...