5.11. Adoption Timeline
As soon as the high data wireless PAN (IEEE 802.15.3a) specification is completed, UWB products will hit the markets very quickly for both PC-oriented products and consumer electronics devices. History has shown that PC-oriented manufacturers have been ahead of consumer electronics original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to adopt wireless technology, but with UWB we believe that PC and CE OEMs will adopt UWB at approximately the same time. The reason is that there has been a more concerted effort by consumer electronics companies to differentiate their products from PC-oriented devices that are becoming more and more consumer-oriented. Also, the PC devices have just adopted the latest USB standard, 2.0, which offers 480 ...
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