XtremeSpectrum and Motorola Team on UWB for 802.15.3a PAN Standard

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ibd com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:33:45 +0900

XtremeSpectrum and Motorola Team on UWB
By Vikki Lipset
http://www.ultrawidebandplanet.com/technology/article/0,,10850_2109651,00.ht
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    In a big show of support for XtremeSpectrum, Motorola's Semiconductor
Product Sector this week announced that it will use the company's
ultrawideband (UWB) technology in its own products and also backed Xtreme's
UWB proposal at the IEEE 802.15 Working Group meeting in Dallas.

    The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to work
together to bring UWB technology to market, said Paul Ballentine, director
of competitive strategy for the Wireless and Broadband Systems Group at
Motorola SPS. While the companies would not reveal details of the agreement,
Chris Fisher, Xtreme's vice president of marketing, said that the two
companies would eventually deliver joint products to the marketplace.

    Ballentine said Motorola looked at various alternatives in the UWB
market, but decided to partner with Xtreme in part because they already had
working silicon.

    In conjunction with the agreement, Motorola decided to support Xtreme's
proposal for the 802.15.3a physical layer standard. More than 20 companies
presented proposals for a new wireless personal area network (WPAN) standard
at the IEEE meeting this week.

    The proposals ranged from singleband approaches that keep UWB as a
single, wide wave, to multiband approaches that divide the spectrum allotted
for UWB into 500MHz bands. Ballentine said XtremeSpectrum's "dual-band"
approach made the most sense to Motorola since it supports high data rates
and multiple users, but is also flexible and scalable.

    "Their approach is very consistent with getting regulatory approval," he
said. "And if future approval opens up more bandwidth, this approach can be
scaled. By taking advantage of all that the law allows and only making
sacrifices where necessary, you still preserve the performance that UWB
inherently has."

    March 13, 2003

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