Intel Takes UWB Standard to ECMA

judgecorp writes "The Intel-backed WiMedia group, unable to get its UWB proposal approved as an IEEE standard, has got it published as a standard, by the ECMA group. ECMA has less of a history in network standards, and is more swayed by commercial issues, say critics." From the article: "ECMA, whose members are manufacturers, has published two standards, ECMA-368 and 369, based directly on the WiMedia UWB proposals. These had previously reached stalemate in the IEEE, where they were blocked by rival proposals from Motorola-backed Freescale in a debate that lasted for years. ECMA, by contrast, approved WiMedia unanimously, in about three months."

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A different perspective....

[Cherita Chen]

It is important to note that some of the lesser advertised properties of UWB are particularly disturbing for the intelligence/defense community. For those of you familiar, UWB is in itself not succeptable to Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) because this technoly is essentially based on frequency hopping, which does not allow for spectrum saturation on the battlefield... So if you think about it, UWB could give foreign adversaries a technological edge on the battlefield - Right off the shelf.