doc.: IEEE /0xxxr0 Submission January 2005 Gifford, FreescaleSlide 1 IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks UWB Forum liaison report to IEEE
doc.: IEEE /0xxxr0 Submission January 2005 Gifford, FreescaleSlide 2 Summary Comprised of over 100 companies, the UWB Forum is committed to making Ultra-Wideband technology a reality. Dedicated to ensuring that standards-based Ultra-Wideband products from multiple vendors are truly interoperable, the Forum works closely to help facilitate worldwide regulatory approval process for Ultra-Wideband systems along with the market educational efforts for future customers of these technologies.
doc.: IEEE /0xxxr0 Submission January 2005 Gifford, FreescaleSlide 3 Liaison Objectives The UWB Forum is interested in industry and consensus standards as well as participating in the development of these standards, recommended practices and guidelines of the IEEE and related SDOs. –We are interested in , and their siblings i.e.,.3a and.4a PHY proposals and.3b and.4b too –We are also interested in coexistence as well as and regulatory issues that relate to worldwide UWB adoption. We are developing Test and Qualification procedures include forum certification, forum compliance testing, forum endorsed software applications stacks and how these value added services are received by industry and more importantly our customers.
doc.: IEEE /0xxxr0 Submission January 2005 Gifford, FreescaleSlide 4 UWB Forum Welcome to Monterey!
doc.: IEEE /0xxxr0 Submission January 2005 Gifford, FreescaleSlide 5 News & Announcements Whitepapers FAQs Members Only Area Upcoming Events
doc.: IEEE /0xxxr0 Submission January 2005 Gifford, FreescaleSlide 6 CES 2005 Unveiled Press Event Over 700 members of the media attended UWB Forum met with leading editors including those from: –EE Times –EDN –Electronics Weekly –Information Week Announced the news of the UWB Forum member demonstrations
doc.: IEEE /0xxxr0 Submission January 2005 Gifford, FreescaleSlide 7 Global Growth Established in 2004 China UWB Forum Korea UWB Forum 2005 Expansion Japan UWB Forum
doc.: IEEE /0xxxr0 Submission January 2005 Gifford, FreescaleSlide 8 Join the UWB Forum