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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Bluetooth gets up to speed
Apart from being integrated in most phones sold now, there's also a major speed increase (up to 100 times) planned for the technology. This will of course require new devices, but at least the new technology will be backwards compatible. There are also talks about a broader use of Bluetooth, for e.g. audio and video streaming in the home.
Quote: Foley said the Bluetooth group believed the best way to achieve that (read: worldwide approval) would be to focus on the little-used band above 6 gigahertz. That would ease regulatory concerns but also reduce the range of the technology, as the signals can't penetrate walls.
That's no good. If you have an access point for media distribution in the home you want to access that media from other rooms as well.
IEEE 802.11 / WLAN / Wi-Fi is an existing family of technologies that could be used instead of Bluetooth for local media distribution. After all, it's already broadly deployed for home PC networking.
Bluetooth Adopts Faster Radio Technology - Yahoo! News
UWB Bluetooth Picked to Link Home Devices - Connected Home News - Designtechnica
Quote: Foley said the Bluetooth group believed the best way to achieve that (read: worldwide approval) would be to focus on the little-used band above 6 gigahertz. That would ease regulatory concerns but also reduce the range of the technology, as the signals can't penetrate walls.
That's no good. If you have an access point for media distribution in the home you want to access that media from other rooms as well.
IEEE 802.11 / WLAN / Wi-Fi is an existing family of technologies that could be used instead of Bluetooth for local media distribution. After all, it's already broadly deployed for home PC networking.
Bluetooth Adopts Faster Radio Technology - Yahoo! News
UWB Bluetooth Picked to Link Home Devices - Connected Home News - Designtechnica
