Intel Demonstrates 220Mbps Variant of UWB

MattyIce writes "InfoWorld has a story about a yet to be approved standard for a high-speed, short distance communications standard. Last year, Intel demonstrated 100MBPS speeds but they have bumped the speed up to 220MBPS this time." Fast stuff, but I imagine it'll be a long time before it comes to market. I haven't even upgraded my wireless network to 802.11g yet!

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[Anonymous Coward]

Technology keeps outdating itself... but some people can never accept it.

My $1000 486 10 years ago has seen a 99.9% decrease in value.

This $20 book published in 1998 has some idiot trying to get $5 out of it.

I've seen organizations rent computers for $30/month/each just to escape this madness.

What's the speed of this?

[SysKoll]

I see MBps (mega Byte per second) and Mbps (Mega bit per second). A byte is 8 bits. That's an order of magnitude of difference!

The standardized way of writing this unit is Mbit/s or MByte/s. Don't invent your own, use the standard units.

Re:So?

[evilviper]

I don't understand the desire for wireless. You need to get power from somewhere, so they best you can hope for is a small, simple cable connecting things.

So, get Firewire hard drives, and you should be set.

Re:Wireless means Freedom, but cables are cheap&am

[drinkypoo]

Freedom from wires means freedom from climbing into your attic to run cables from the living room to a back bedroom, and punching holes in the ceiling to drop the cable through.

Re:What's the point???

[fejrskov]

There's a huge market for this because since the UWB technique doesn't require carrier waves and lots of power it doesn't require all sorts of power amplification as traditional communication methods.

So why is that cool? It means that UWB can be used as an inter IC communication method, thus eliminating the need of parallel buses!

When the antennas are becoming better (higher gain), the UWB technique will expand to have a larger range, which will expand the market even further.

Re:Wireless means Freedom, but cables are cheap&am

[afidel]

Your security guy would kill you if he heard that. By bridging your unsecured PC to your VPN'd pc you have opened a door that crackers can use to get into your corporate network. The whole point of a VPN is to have a secured connection between your pc and the corporate lan that can't be used by outside sources.