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Ultra-Wide Band And Bluetooth Working Together

Posted by Zonk on from the its-so-nice-to-see-protocols-getting-along dept.

judgecorp writes "This week the Bluetooth people adopted UWB as a future fast connection. What not many people have spotted is - the big winner in this could be UWB.. Sure, Bluetooth is a slow protocol for headsets, and UWB is, potentially, much much more. But Bluetooth is established. It's in phones and regulators understand it. If Bluetooth likes UWB, that could really be a major factor to convince the people that are blocking UWB - operators and regulators outside the US - that UWB is safe to use."

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  1. Naming inflation by JPelorat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heh. They're expanding the descriptors too fast.. we went straight from broadband to ultrawideband. What's next, megahugeband? Kinda running out of options after that. What happened to moderation? Something like broaderband.

    Starts getting ridiculous after that: superultrawideband, hyperbroadband, megabroadwidebroadband... uberband? Guess we could move on to Roseanneband, or Kirstieband.

    Or maybe we could just skip all that and go straight to plaidband.

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    1. Re:Naming inflation by UnixRawks · · Score: 1, Funny

      Or perhaps broadband, wideband, ultrawideband, ultra2band, ultra2wideband, ultra320band, ultra320wideband...

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    2. Re:Naming inflation by Basehart · · Score: 2, Funny

      Rubberband, popband, fourpieceband - what's the problem?

    3. Re:Naming inflation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      They've gone plaid!

  2. OT: Lode Runner by Stibidor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you mean Broderbund? :)

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  3. Usefull up close by goneutt · · Score: 2, Funny

    A quick read of the first article mentions that this is intended for distances of 2-4 meters. That would make it great for improved headsets. PDA's, MP3 Players, and cellphone viruses should also benefit.

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  4. Re:Ultra Wide Tooth by Megamote · · Score: 2, Funny

    Notes from one of my own white papers - thank you