LTE -- What Voice Services?     by Jose Deras       Home         Topics: Main | ServiceProvider | LTE | 3G | WiMax | HSDPA | IMS | ICDMA | GSM | Silicon for Wireless | Fixed Wireless |  Start-ups | People | Europe | China | Japan | Latin America | India | Wireless Start-up Directory | Links & Resources | Archive   Motorola Acquires XtremeSpectrum for UWB Chips Motorola agreed to acquire the assets of XtremeSpectrum, a start-up developing ultra-wideband (UWB) solutions for multimedia connectivity. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close within a week. XtremeSpectrum supplies a UWB chipset capable of achieving 100 Mbps data rates while consuming less than 200 milliwatts (mW) of power. Potential applications include multimedia-centric devices, such as large screen displays, set-top boxes, DVD players, video recorders and digital cameras. The devices have already been sampled to several major consumer equipment manufacturers in 2003. http://www.motorola.com http://www.xtremespectrum.com 10-Nov-03 In October, XtremeSpectrum issued a letter to the IEEE promising to offer RAND-Z (reasonable and non-discriminatory-zero licensing) access to the essential patents pertaining to XtremeSpectrum's proposal currently being considered for the IEEE802.15.3a standard, the high speed wireless PAN standard. The RAND-Z guarantees that the essential intellectual property within the XtremeSpectrum proposal will be available, royalty-free, to all of industry to the extent the proposal is selected as the IEEE 802.15.3a standard. XtremeSpectrum is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. The company was co-founded in 1998 by Martin Rofheart, who previously was the founder and president of Soft Machine Resources (a privately held systems and engineering contracting firm), and John McCorkle , who previously developed UWB radar technology at the US Army Research Laboratories. In June 2002, XtremeSpectrum completed a $12 million round of venture funding with backing from POD Holding, a large Scandinavian venture fund; Cisco Systems; Motorola; Alliance Technology Ventures; Texas Instruments' venture capital initiative, Granite Ventures; and Novak Biddle Venture Partners.     Learn How to Get Your Video on this Site Recent Broadband Wireless News Ericsson Pushes HSPA to 84 Mbps 2/5/2010 AT&T Supports SlingPlayer's Mobile App on 3G 2/4/2010 IBM to host Sierra Wireless Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Services 2/4/2010 AT&T Issues "Open Call -- Apps For All!" Contest 2/4/2010 Alcatel-Lucent's Software Defined Radios for 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE 2/4/2010 Nokia Reports Fast Adoption of New Ovi Maps With Free Navigation 2/3/2010 Roamware Eliminates Roaming Voicemail Charges for European Operators 2/3/2010 Swisscom Monitors IMS Network with RADCOM's Omni-Q 2/3/2010 MTS Allstream Selects Aviat to Support HSPA Rollout 2/3/2010 KDDI Selects 3G Femtocell Solution from Hitachi and Airvana 2/2/2010 Fraunhofer IIS Debuts Audio Communication Engine for LTE 2/2/2010 Aviat Posts Quarterly Revenue of $123 million 2/2/2010 Aricent Focuses on Differentiated Subscriber Experiences 2/2/2010 Altair and SkyCross Announce LTE Cooperation 2/2/2010 Sprint Supports Tango Networks' Mobile UC 2/1/2010 > More news...     Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published LTE -- What Voice Services? by Jose Deras Framing the Next Wave of Carrier Ethernet by Umesh Kukreja Network Interconnection and Evolution for Super Carriers by Dawn M. Hogh Carrier Challenges for Tomorrow's Connected Enterprise by Dr. Badri Nath Dynamic Performance Management for Mobile Data Networks by Michael J. Schabel, Ph.D. To 4G or not to 4G: Supporting Exponential Mobile Traffic Growth by Joe Schraml