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Friday, February 15, 2002
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/02/14/020214hnultrawide.xml Ultra-wideband wireless gets the go-ahead Cara Garretson THE U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday authorized limited commercial use of wireless devices based on a communication technology called ultra-wideband. These devices send and receive relatively short-range, high-speed transmissions and can be used to provide connectivity in home and office wireless local area networks (LANs), as well as offer short-distance connections among mobile devices such as cell phones, pagers, and handheld computers. The technology uses short-duration pulses that dart around other traffic traversing the same airwaves, and as a result can operate across spectrum already occupied by other radio services. It may provide higher speed and a longer reach than existing IEEE 802.11b wireless LANs, according to performance numbers from vendors that hope to begin selling commercial ultra-wideband gear....
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