If UWB Were Ever Commercialized

“Ultrawideband works unlike any other form of broadcasting. It relies on a sputtering signal across a wide range of frequencies. The pulses of the sputtering signals are received and resequenced to re-create the initial information. This is the same technology that can be used for ground-penetrating radar and could eventually be used to see through walls.

The real potential, though, is for cheap wireless broadband. UWB is believed to be so important that Texas Instruments, which holds a slew of blocking and primary patents on the technology, announced in December that it will give away patent licenses to people who get on the IEEE 802.15.3a bandwagon and begin building products. TI appears to be doing this from the goodness of its heart”….<More>