With the introduction of IOGEAR's new Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology-based product, the UWB Hub and Adapter Kit, residential and small and home office (SOHO) users can eliminate cables in workplaces and living rooms without compromising file transfer speeds.
The Hub contains four USB 2.0 ports enabling connectivity to devices such as printers, scanners, MP3 players and external hard drives. Users wirelessly connect their laptops or PCs to the Hub up to 30 feet away with the pre-paired USB adapter included in the Kit. With UWB technology, file transfers are facilitated at record speeds of up to 480Mbps. Since all components are connected centrally at the Hub, cables and excess office wiring can be significantly reduced.
IOGEAR's Kit is based on WiMedia's Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM), a Wireless Personal Area Networking (WPAN) technology for transmitting data quickly and with low power consumption. It also features high-bandwidth capabilities and internal filtering, eliminating interference with microwave ovens, Bluetooth cell phones and cordless telephones, among other wireless devices.
ABI Research reports that the UWB market is poised to achieve widespread commercial success, possibly reaching 300 million shipments by 2011 , while Frost & Sullivan predicts this year’s unit shipment of UWB products to be around 2.8 million, with revenues of $36.5 million.
IOGEAR will display the UWB Hub & Adapter Kit and preview its upcoming UWB products at COMPUTEX Taipei 2006, and it will ship during Q3, 2006.
For further information on the company and its connectivity solutions, please visit www.iogear.com.
Ultrawideband pioneer and fabless semiconductor company Staccato Communications has signed on a slew of Taiwanese customers for Certified Wireless USB PC Dongle and hub products to be introduced as consumer products for Q4 2006. Additionally, Asian Information Technology (AIT) is making test equipment for ODM/OEM production, using the Staccato Ripcord single-chip, all-CMOS solution for 480Mbps. This puts AIT into the world of testing PCs and peripherals, a new area for them, as the Bluetooth tester with a huge Asian customer base moves into Certified Wireless USB. AboCom, Cameo Communications and Cellink will all use Staccato's Ripcord family of single-chip, all-CMOS complete solutions for PC Dongle and hub products for Certified Wireless USB based upon Staccato's reference designs; AboCom also plans an ExpressCard. More information can be found at www.staccatocommunications.com Staccato has the industry's only single-chip, all-CMOS solution, implemented in 110nm digital CMOS and packaged into a low cost, small form-factor System-in-Package (SiP) solution enabling Certified Wireless USB Host Wire Adapter (HWA) and Device Wire Adapter (DWA), as well as native Certified Wireless USB using an SDIO interface.
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