| Report: Ultra-Wideband consumer products due soon |
Sep. 29, 2004
A new report from In-Stat/MDR says Ultra-Wideband (UWB) [see whitepaper] is poised to fill a high-bandwidth gap left by Wi-Fi in the home networking space. UWB-based products will begin shipping in 2005, and thereafter will grow at over 400 percent per year from 2005 to 2008, the report says.
UWB supporters have been working toward a standard and commercial solutions since the FCC appoved its use in February 2002, according to In-Stat/MDR. UWB provides bandwidth and QoS specs that make it particularly attractive for applications such as fast video transfer between peripheral devices, in products such as digital camcorders, TVs, and PCs, and between set top boxes and TV monitors, In-Stat/MDR says.
"At present, standards issues are being played out in a political arena involving the IEEE, Freescale, MBOA, and the WiMedia Alliance," In-Stat/MDR says. "Faced with constant standard-setting delays, MBOA members and Freescale are not waiting for these issues to be resolved, as the stakes are too high. Rather than wait for standards to be approved by the IEEE, both plan to move forward with product rollouts irrespective of the standards' disputes. UWB proponents have also made headway toward providing UWB as the PHY and MAC for the upcoming wireless USB specification, which is expected to help drive UWB into more end products."
According to Joyce Putscher, director of In-Stat/MDR's Converging Markets & Technologies Group, "The momentum for UWB is being driven by several business and consumer imperatives. The business imperatives include the supplier organizations devoted to UWB development -- the chipsets, interfaces, and end-user products. The consumer will be pitched a combination of convenience and "cool" factors. To anyone but a true technologist, connecting cables are ugly. To many consumers, connectivity ports and USB hubs can represent treacherous territory, so the appeal of wireless USB may prove irresistible. Of course, success with the consumer will depend on what type of out-of-the-box experiences they have with such products."
Other In-Stat/MDR observations include: - As UWB rolls out, it faces no serious competing technologies, since alternatives only offer slower ways of accomplishing data transfers, with speeds that are 1% to 10% of a 480Mbps UWB solution. There is really no wireless technology, which is currently available and standardized, that offers robust multimedia transport of multiple digital video streams.
- The initial stage of UWB implementations will be primarily focused on point-to-point connections between devices, with point-to-multipoint following.
- As UWB chipsets become more integrated, costs fall, and a standard is solidified, UWB becomes very attractive for use with wireless USB to provide a bridge between PCs and consumer electronics devices.
In-Stat/MDR's report, "Ultra-Wideband: Coming With or Without a Standard", includes technology, standards, organizations, comparisons to other technologies, vendor profiles, forecasts by specific application/end product, chipset price and revenue for 2004-2008.
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