Is It The Year of UWB?

It's a good question.  And what does it really mean to be the year of any technology?  Does it mean that commercial products hit the shelves in volume?  If that's the criteria, then 2007 will definitely be the year for UWB.  Does it mean that the technology becomes adopted across a wide range of applications?  This will also be true in 2007.  Already we've seen announcements that the technology will be embedded in laptop PCs, high-definition TVs, automobiles and a range of aftermarket products designed to make the delivery of multimedia content around the home simpler and easier than ever before.

Wireless Week Magazine muses on the UWB trend in a recent article entitled UWB Blast Off. Tim Bajarin, analyst with Creative Strategies, writes in PC Magazine that wireless high definition and UWB will be one of the hottest themes this year, "since it represents a key to the future for content distribution within the home."

Additionally, both Wireless Net Design Line and EDN declare Tzero's UWB one of the top wireless products of the year. Even the podcasters at the HT Guys predict 2007 will be a big year for UWB. They must be onto something.