UWB Forum
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The UWB Forum is an industry organization dedicated to ensuring that Ultra-Wideband (UWB) products from multiple vendors are truly interoperable. This UWB system provides a Wireless PAN with data payload communication capabilities of 28, 55, 110, 220, 500, 660, 1000 and 1320 Mbit/s.
[edit] Standardisation
[edit] IEEE
IEEE_802.15.3a was an attempt to provide a higher speed UWB PHY enhancement amendment to IEEE 802.15.3 for applications which involve imaging and multimedia. IEEE 802.15.3a UWB standardisation attempt failed due to contrast between WiMedia Alliance and UWB Forum. On January 19, 2006 IEEE 802.15.3a task group (TG3a) members voted to withdraw the December 2002 project authorization request (PAR) that initiated the development of high data rate UWB standards. The IEEE 802.15.3a most commendable achievement was the consolidation of 23 UWB PHY specifications into two proposals using : Multi-Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) UWB, supported by the WiMedia Alliance, and Direct Sequence - UWB (DS-UWB), supported by the UWB Forum.
