Friday, May 6, 2005

Bluetooth to interoperate with UWB

Members of two major ultrawideband camps applauded a proposal Wednesday to <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1812804,00.asp">make the Bluetooth standard interoperable</A> with future UWB products, the first step toward making Bluetooth a more open command protocol. Members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group did not give their blessing to either the Freescale-led DS-UWB standard or the Intel-led MBOA specification. Instead, executives at the Bluetooth SIG talked up a more universal role for the Bluetooth protocol. Under the new plan, the Bluetooth protocol could be used to "command and control" several different types of wireless radios, including UWB as well as future technologies.

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