ALSO CALLED: Ultra Wideband, Ultra Wide Band, Ultrawideband, Pulse Radio, and Digital Pulse Wireless DEFINITION: Ultra wideband (also known as UWB or as digital pulse wireless) is a wireless technology for transmitting large amounts of digital data over a wide spectrum of frequency bands with very low power for a short distance. Ultra wideband radio not only can carry
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WHITE PAPER: Posted: 10 Sep 2007 | Published: 14 Mar 2007
SUMMARY:
Because they free users from the need to be cabled to a physical network, wireless LANs are being used as an access vehicle to help businesses better collaborate.
UWB DEFINITION (continued): … a huge amount of data over a distance up to 230 feet at very low power (less than 0.5 milliwatts), but has the ability to carry signals through doors and other obstacles that tend to reflect signals at more limited bandwidths and a higher power. Ultra wideband can be compared with another short-distance wireless technology, Bluetooth, which is a standard for connecting handheld wireless devices with other similar devices and with desktop computers.
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