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Wireless USB Technology To Hit Stores By Q3
A wireless form of Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection technology will hit the United States by the third quarter.
Jeff Ravencraft, chairman of the USB Implementers Forum and an Intel technology strategist, says, "Early movers are going
to be external hard drives, cameras and printers. You'll begin to see products move in the third quarter through the back
half of the year."
The wireless technology boasts the same 480 megabits-per-second data transfer speed as a wired USB 2.0 connection, and
Ravencraft says it will soon become the interface-of-choice for printers, digital cameras, music players and external disk
drives.
According to CNet, wireless USB uses an underlying wireless communication technology called ultra-wideband (UWB). Where 802.11g
uses a relatively narrow frequency range centered on 2.4GHz radio waves, UWB uses a very broad range from 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz.
The UWB signal levels are low enough that it appears to be noise to other radio communication technology.
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