LTE -- What Voice Services?    by Jose Deras      Home         Topics: Main | Standards Organizations | Archive   Wireless USB Specification Nears Completion The Wireless USB specification is expected to be completed at the end of March and the Multi-band OFDM Alliance (MBOA) medium access controller (MAC) is scheduled to be completed by midyear, according to an update from Intel provided at its Intel Developer's Forum in San Francisco. Wireless USB will be one of the technology implementations that will use UWB as the radio technology. The goal of Wireless USB is to deliver the same ease of use and high speeds associated with USB 2.0, but without wires. To maintain the same usage and architecture as wired USB, the Wireless USB Promoter Group, of which Intel is a leading member, is defining the wireless USB specification. Intel said the first version of this specification will be completed by the end of this month. UWB is designed to transmit data within short range (up to 10 meters) at very high bandwidths (up to 480Mbps) while using little power. One of the main advantages of UWB is it does not interfere with other wireless technologies already in use, such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX and cellular wide-area communications. The MBOA's MAC layer specification v1.0 is expected to be finalized by the end of June. http://developer.intel.com 03-Mar-05 Learn How to Get Your Video on this Site Recent Standards News UNH-IOL Accredited as Testing Lab for USGv6 Test Program 2/2/2010 ITU-T Approves Data Link Layer of G.hn 1/25/2010 GSMA: 2.6 GHz Band Vital for the Growth of LTE 1/13/2010 Alcatel-Lucent and LGE Completed Data Call Handoff Between LTE and CDMA 1/7/2010 Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) Shows Momentum at CES 1/6/2010 HomePlug "Green PHY" Targets Smart Grid Applications 1/6/2010 3DTV Working Group Formed by the MPEG Industry Forum 12/21/2009 Google Joins "IP for Smart Objects" (IPSO) Alliance 12/18/2009 WiMAX Forum Counts 112 WiMAX Networks Deployed in 2009 12/17/2009 Blu-ray 3D Specification Released 12/17/2009 HDBaseT Alliance Targets Whole-home Video Distribution 12/15/2009 IEEE Forms SIEPON Working Group 12/14/2009 T-Mobile Tests Femtocells from Ubiquisys and Huawei 12/10/2009 Broadband Forum Releases Global VDSL2 Test Suite 12/9/2009 ITU-T G.hn Work Group Agrees on a Smart Grid Technology 12/7/2009 > 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