The Ultra Wideband Blog

UWB Overtakes WiFi

According to the most recent report from market researcher In-Stat "UWB sales will overtake WiFi volume in the near future." That's some pretty heady news considering that the firm has already publicly stated that 280 million WiFi chip sets will be sold this year alone. 

So exactly how much and when?  Good questions.  For the answers, you'll have to purchase the report authored by In-Stat's Qasim Inam.

We're not the only ones to pick up on this news.  WirelessWeek, among others, covered the story last week.   

HDCP Approved Retransmission Technology

Content protection continues to be one of the biggest issues facing service providers, electronics manufacturers and the content providers themselves. This is especially true as new technologies become available for the distribution of high-definition video wirelessly and over over coax cabling.

Several months ago, the Digital Content Protection organization (DCP LLC), licensor of the HDCP content protection technology specification, asked for submissions of these new technologies for review and certification as part of a new Approved Retransmission Technology program. They used a rigorous set of criteria.  And thus far, only one manufacturer has stood up to the test -- Tzero. 

This week, Tzero becomes the first manufacturer to have its products approved for use with content protected by HDCP. In fact, DCP LLC has granted Tzero’s ZeroWire™ authorization as an Approved Retransmission Technology for both wireless and wired implementations.  Read more.