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This month, I invited the W-PANel to lookat high speed wireless.
There is atremendous amount of focus on thiselement of the
short-range wirelessbusiness at the moment, and a wide rangeof
technologies competing for a share of
the pie. But how much speed do we reallyneed? Which technology
is most suitable?Is there really a need? What are therewards likely
to be, and how far away arethey? Once again, the Incisor W-PANel
willprovide the most authoritative views youare likely to be able
to garner.
If you have views, or suggestions as tohow we can develop the
W-PANelconcept, email me at [email protected].
Vince Holton
Publisher, Incisor & IncisorTV.
The Incisor W-PANel
responds
Mike Foley
Executive director,
Bluetooth Special
Interest Group
Faster, faster, faster! Thats a refrain Ihear often while
playing with my children they want to ride the bike faster,
bepushed on the swing faster, do anythingand everything including
growing up,
much to my chagrin faster. Its amentality were all born with and
one wedont soon grow out of and arequirement, as creators of
technology, wemust address for the vast consumeraudience craving
speed.
The Bluetooth SIG recognized thisrequirement a while ago and
were workinghard to provide not just one solution, buttwo. In the
near term, were close to theadoption of a new specification that
willfeature Bluetooth profiles running over an802.11 AMP. In the
longer term, werecontemplating the creation of a secondfaster
specification Bluetooth profilesrunning over UWB.
You ask if there is a need for speed theanswer is a resounding
yes, for thoseapplications that make sense. I dont wantto spend
hours transferring my entiremusic library from my PC to my new
mp3player today, thats what it would take. Iwant to use the
technology Im familiarwith, in the way that Ive grownaccustomed,
and still have it do all thethings I want it to do, and as fast
as,perhaps even faster than, I would expect
them to be done. Of course, I also expectthe new high speed
products to work withmy existing collection of products. Im
notgoing to throw away everything I have justto upgrade. Ill add
new products thatextend my WPAN and enhance what Ialready do.
As we move forward, Bluetooth technologywill continue to be the
one wirelesstechnology the consumer uses in the WPAN.
Erich Kamperschroer,
Chairman,the DECT Forum
WPAN technology isnt theprimary focus of the DECT Forum.
WithCAT-iq it is now possible for the first timeto connect
telephones to the internet andto use this connectivity to provide
contenton telephones.
Ease of use for the customer is one of themain objectives of
CAT-iq. Within theframework of IMT-Advanced (a conceptfrom the ITU
for mobile communicationsystems), the DECT Forum intents
toimplement the requested volume of datatransfer into the CAT-iq
standard.
(for more information on CAT-iq, see thelatest Incisor.TV
movie.Click here to view)
Graham Martin,
Chairman,
EnOcean Alliance
High speed connectivity isprimarily related to wireless transfer
oflarge volume data between mobile internet
devices such as notebooks, laptop PCsand mobile phones. As a
self-poweredwireless company EnOcean utilises highspeed
connectivity for the high availability,optimised performance and
flexibility ofthe channel rather than the transfer oflarge amounts
of data.
Low power wireless radio technology isused to transmit small
amounts of datawithin extremely short radio packets. Atypical
EnOcean radio telegram isexecuted in around a thousandth of asecond
and is transmitted at a rate of 125kilobits per second.
Edgar Figueroa,
Wi-Fi Alliance
Executive Director
Its no secret that for nearly adecade, Wi-Fi has transformed the
waypeople connect at work and at play. Wi-Fi provides a great way
to connect athome, in the office and on the go. In arecent poll, 51
percent of US consumerssaid they would never seriously
considerpurchasing a CE device without Wi-Fi, and
88 percent agree that pretty soon, everyhigh-tech device will
have thetechnology*. People love Wi-Fi andthey have come to expect
it in virtuallyevery device they use.
Though Wi-Fi is a well-loved and mature
technology, we have seen substantialboosts in its performance
over the years,with the latest version of the technology,802.11n,
bringing up to five times thethroughput and twice the range of
legacyWi-Fi protocols. This performance boost,
in combination with the availability of ourproduct certification
program, has made802.11n products reach ubiquity veryquickly. In
2008, more than 40% of Wi-Fishipments supported the
next-generationstandard and by 2012, 802.11n willpositively
dominate the market.**
In the enterprise and home alike, 802.11nis a breakthrough
technology thatenables Wi-Fi networks to do more,faster, over a
larger area. Beyond justconnecting additional users on a
singlenetwork, advanced Wi-Fi handlesmultimedia streaming with
ease. Withouta doubt, Wi-Fi is no longer only a datanetworking
technology it lies at the verycore of the connected home
andentertainment experience. The incrediblethroughput and range
gains with 802.11nmean that Wi-Fi handles the demands ofconnected
entertainment with ease.
For the enterprise, 802.11n means thatWi-Fi can move from the
edge of thenetwork to the core acting as a verystrong substitute
for more costly andcomplex wired Ethernet. 802.11nextends coverage,
reliability, and support
for multiple users on the network andenables advanced enterprise
applicationslike voice and videoconferencing.
Looking ahead, there is a lot to beexcited about. Innovation in
the industryis bringing device-to-device connectivity without the
need of a Wi-Fiinfrastructure network into the limelight.This new
use of Wi-Fi, a technology usedby millions of people on more than
abillion devices worldwide, is the nextimportant use of the
technology insupport of the exploding consumerelectronics and
handsets segments, anda powerful example of the ongoinginnovation
in the space.
* Wi-Fi Alliance and WakefieldResearch, Dec 2008
** ABI Research, Dec 2008
Stephen Wood
President,
WiMedia Alliance
These types of forward lookingquestions are some of the most
difficult
that marketing professionals address. Inthe late 1990s, I recall
talking tomarketing personnel who could see noreason for people to
use wireless LANtechnology People have a similarchallenge
envisioning the uses for shortrange wireless technologies.
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