Jeff Goldman

Fujitsu Microelectronics America this week released a white paper which provides an overview of WiMax, explains the standards and technologies behind it, and looks at the timeline for future deployments. George Wu, the company’s Director of Technology Solutions/ASSP Product Marketing, says the white paper is intended to be a broad introduction to Fujitsu’s perspective on […]

At the annual CableLabs Summer Conference earlier this month in Keystone, Colorado, the ultrawideband (UWB) chipset developer Pulse~LINK showcased its technology for cable operators. “We have a little ‘traveling road show’ with the architecture of a hybrid fiber coax network,” says Bruce Watkins, Pulse~LINK’s President and COO. Using that architecture, Pulse~LINK demonstrated its ability to […]

Alongside Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and ultrawideband (not to mention WiMax, Near Field Communication (NFD), and others), a new wireless technology is entering the marketplace. An ABI Research study entitled ZigBee and 802.15.4 Wireless Networks provides an overview of ZigBee and its strengths in the marketplace — and predicts a market explosion for the technology over the […]

This week, Firetide and Wireless Hotspot announced the deployment of a free citywide wireless network in Culver City, California. The hotzone, which covers about a mile, uses three of Firetide’s HotPoint 1000R Outdoor Wireless Mesh Routers. It will be officially unveiled in a ceremony hosted by the city on September 9. Joseph Hsieh, Wireless Hotspot’s […]

With AT&T Wireless announcing the launch of its 3G UMTS network last week, NTT DoCoMo discussing plans for 4G, Wi-Fi use spreading nationwide, and WiMax on the way, the growing number of wireless standards threatens to become increasingly confusing both for consumers and for the industry as a whole. A new report by ABI Research […]

While much of the current press coverage of ultrawideband (UWB) focuses on its ability to connect devices in personal area networks, a new report by ABI Research tries to show that there’s a lot more to the technology. The report, "Ultra Wideband: Standards, Technology, OEM Strategy and Markets and Application Spaces," provides a broad view […]

The fabless semiconductor company Artimi has announced that it closed a $14 million Series A funding round, led by Index Ventures, Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, and Oak Investment Partners. Artimi, which develops ultrawideband chips, has its corporate headquarters in Burlingame, Calif., and its development headquarters in Cambridge, England. According to Richard Dellabarca, the company’s […]

Following its launch last month of the BreezeMAX platform, Alvarion and Millicom Argentina announced last week week that Millicom will be launching what the company called “the first WiMax network in Latin America” during the months of September to December of this year. Carlton O’Neal, Alvarion’s Vice President of Marketing, admits that it may be […]

Recently, an Ipsos-Reid survey of Canadians showed that in the world of everyday people on the street, the term VoIP — voice over Internet Protocol, arguably the biggest buzz going in information technology these days — is practically unknown. Only 23% of the population had even heard of it. But that doesn’t matter to the […]

At this week’s third International Ultrawideband Conference in Boston (hosted by Uraxs Communications in cooperation with the FCC and NTIA), the focus is on handling ITU-R regulatory issues and advancing global standards. Gary Anderson, CEO of Uraxs and Chair of the U.S. Organizing Committee for the ITU, says progress is being made. “One of the […]

Last week, the WiMax Forum announced the formation of a Regulatory Working Group, tasked with improving availability of WiMax spectrum worldwide. “The availability of spectrum is mission critical for enabling mass-market deployments,” says Intel’s Margaret LaBrecque, the working group’s chairperson. Michael Cai, senior analyst at the market research firm Parks Associates, says the group’s efforts […]

Last week, Canadian wireless equipment manufacturer Wi-LAN announced an agreement to acquire 17 U.S. patents and patent applications as well as their foreign counterparts. The acquisition will further strengthen the company’s progress towards a planned April 2005 commercial release of its WiMax products. According to Ken Wetherell, Wi-LAN’s Vice President of Corporate Communications, the name […]