{"id":3141,"date":"2005-03-09T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/03\/09\/uwbs-fate-to-be-decided-this-week\/"},"modified":"2005-03-09T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T21:54:00","slug":"uwbs-fate-to-be-decided-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/09\/uwbs-fate-to-be-decided-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"UWB&#8217;s fate to be decided this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMore on UWB and the FCC at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techworld.com\/mobility\/news\/index.cfm?NewsID=3263\">Techworld.com: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUWB is a challenge to regulators like the FCC and the UK&#8217;s Ofcom, which are accustomed to licensing most frequencies exclusively, because it spreads radio signals across a broad range of spectrum at low powers that are not expected to interfere with other radio equipment (see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techworld.com\/mobility\/features\/index.cfm?FeatureID=175\">explanation<\/a>). The FCC has approved it, so long as it emits less radiation than devices such as PCs or CD players are already allowed to leak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course the kicker on that radiation question is how you measure it, since the radiation emitted by a UWB system has a different spatial and temporal pattern than that emitted by a PC.<\/p>\n<p>One of the takeaways from this story is that the 802 standards process is broken. It takes 75% to advance a proposal to the standards-writing phase and virtual unanimity to complete the standard. UWB has been in limbo for three years because neither side could get 75%, and 802.11e has been done for 18 months but not officially completed.<\/p>\n<p>Too many people have too many agendas these days, and it&#8217;s too easy to derail the process.<\/p>\n<p>I expect the breaking news of the FCC&#8217;s ruling should be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimedia.org\/en\/index.asp\">WiMedia web site<\/a> before the weekend.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on UWB and the FCC at Techworld.com: UWB is a challenge to regulators like the FCC and the UK&#8217;s Ofcom, which are accustomed to licensing most frequencies exclusively, because it spreads radio signals across a broad range of spectrum at low powers that are not expected to interfere with other radio equipment (see our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/09\/uwbs-fate-to-be-decided-this-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UWB&#8217;s fate to be decided this week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-networks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-OF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}