Is UWB Mesh ready for Home Entertainment Networking ?

From “Kiyon and Siemens to Jointly Develop Advanced Multi-Hop UWB Mesh for Home Entertainment Networking,” via Marketwire, 21 December:

“Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices LLC and Kiyon, Inc. announced they are jointly developing an ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless multi-hop mesh solution for the home, capable of supporting high-definition video, IPTV, audio, VoIP, gaming, and more…

“This new technology should make it possible for services providers, such as cable or telecommunications companies, to provide next-generation broadband services to homeowners without the need to install new cabling, reducing installation time and costs.

“The joint development effort takes advantage of the Kiyon Multi-channel TDMA (KMT) software, which can be embedded in any RF device, including wireless access points, routers, and switches to transform any wireless network into a high-performance mesh for QoS (quality of service) sensitive media traffic such as IPTV and HD video.

“The KMT software is the first multi-hop UWB mesh implementation, and also features dynamic routing protocol (DRP). As a result, the UWB mesh will automatically adjust time slot allocations across the network based on changing traffic patterns, and levelizes UWB bandwidth throughput over several hops.

” ‘The race to deliver convergent multimedia services will be won with in-home distribution,” said Michael Nova, founder and CEO of Kiyon… ‘Kiyon’s ultra-wideband wireless multi-hop mesh is the ideal solution, since it can be used across multiple rooms to connect displays, set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and more…’

“Kiyon has already implemented its KMT software onto 802.11a/b/g devices and is shipping its BACnet WiFi mesh products for wireless building automation… Kiyon executives indicate that, by working with Siemens, a commercially viable prototype of the high-performance UWB wireless mesh system is expected to be available for home use in early 2007…”

-openspectrum.info

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