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Advances
in Ultra-Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB
(Meeting and Demonstrations)
Hosted
by MCCI
Austin, Texas
Meeting:
Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
Chair: Peter Rysavy, Rysavy Research
CONTENTS
Background
Meeting Agenda
Meeting Location
Hotel Information
Registration
Information for Presenters
Ultra-wideband
(UWB) has finally emerged onto the market in the form of laptops with
embedded WUSB technology and Certified Wireless USB (WUSB) hub and
dongle adapter kits. First generation technology, to be sure, but its
impact is already apparent in the PC world and impending in the
embedded device world.
This should be a
highly worthwhile meeting on a technology that has the potential to
fundamentally change how devices communicate in local environments. In
the words of one of the presenters, “Just as it took hundreds of years
to change our view of earth and its rightful place in the universe it
seems to be taking hundreds of Internet-years to change the view that
the PC is the center of the connectivity universe. For future
generations and use-cases it is not! And UWB could actually succeed in
making that change!” However, this assumes that key issues are
addressed correctly. Identifying these is one of the objectives of this
meeting.
Hosted by MCCI
Corporation, a leading supplier of USB software and support IP to the
cellphone industry, speakers and attendees will examine UWB's
standardization status, productization challenges and future.
The meeting will address questions such as:
- What are the usage scenarios that could propel UWB to widespread adoption?
- What is the timeframe for widespread UWB and Wireless USB deployment?
- How will UWB and Bluetooth co-exist?
- Will the market be fragmented across competing technical approaches?
- How will UWB products address pairing issues that have complicated Bluetooth usage?
- What are future directions in laptop/phone tethering using UWB?
- Will business or consumer applications drive adoption?
- How do UWB developments
relate to Wi-Fi developments?
Note
that meeting presenters, and many of the attendees, are world leading
technologists on the subject material. We allocate sufficient time for
discussion that attendees can ask questions of greatest interest.
Moreover, the meetings allow informal networking during breaks where
attendees can exchange important information.
Meeting and Demonstrations. June 11, 2008. 8:00 AM to
4:00 PM.
Continental
breakfast and
lunch provided.
Meeting attendees obtain access to all content presented at the meeting
and detailed minutes.
We plan to have
demonstrations of personal-area networking products at the meeting.
The
preliminary agenda is as follows:
- 8:00 to 8:30 Coffee service and registration.
- 8:30 to 8:40 Peter Rysavy, Executive Director, PCCA. Introductions. PCCA meeting schedule and association update.
- 8:40 to 9:20 Terrill Moore, CEO, MCCI. Host company presentation.
- 9:20 to 10:00 Presentation. Morten Christiansen, Senior System Designer, Ericsson Mobile Platforms. “How Can UWB Change Our View of the PC Universe?”
- 10:00 to 10:20 Break
- 10:20
to 11:00 Presentation. Pratik Mehta, Communications
Technologist, Dell. "Ultra-Wideband for Short Range
Connectivity."
- 11:00 to 11:40 Presentation. Inanc Inan, PhD, Systems Engineer, Realtek. “Emerging Applications and Use Cases in UWB Domain.”
- 11:40 to 12:40 Lunch
- 12:40 to 1:20 Presentation. Dave Sroka, NXP Semiconductor. "UWB, the Ultimate Choice for PAN Technologies."
- 1:20 to 2:00 Presentation. Wayne Daniel, Director of Strategic Marketing, WiQuest. "Video over UWB for Portable Computer Applications"
- 2:00 to 2:20 Break
- 2:20
to 3:00 Presentation. Zach Little, Program Manager, Wireless USB
and UWB, Microsoft. "Ultra-Wideband: Hard Issues and Direction in the
PC."
- 3:00 to 3:40 Presentation. Jim Lansford, PhD, CTO, Alereon. "WWW: World-Wide Wireless USB"
- 3:40
to 4:00 Discussion
Note:
agenda is subject to change.
The
meeting will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Austin.
Hilton Hotel
500 East 4th Street
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 482-8000
Room block is
under the name PCCA. Room block expires May 11. Book soon.
The registration deadline is one week before the meeting.
Meetings are intended primarily for PCCA members. However, non-member organizations may attend for a fee of $375 per person. This fee can be applied towards future membership. Executive-level members may send five people, associate-level members may send two people and affiliate-level members may send one person to the meeting without incurring meeting charges.
We expect a full meeting. If you intend to come, please register soon.
Click here to register for the meeting using our secure Web page.
The following information is for people presenting at this PCCA meeting:
- Presentations are typically 30 minutes to 40 minutes long unless arranged otherwise.
- There is usually a 5 to 15 minute discussion following the presentation.
- Presenters
must provide their presentations (PDF or PPT) at least one week prior
to the meeting to allow for copying to the members area of the PCCA Web
site, as well as to allow detailed questions for discussion.
- This is a technical audience (e.g., engineering and program managers), so please make the presentations technical. Emphasis should be on industry and technology at large, versus selling your product (limit of 3 slides). Consider items such as compatibility, technical alternatives, standardization, deployment considerations, interoperability, certification and adoption.
- Generally, 40 to 60 people attend each meeting, representing a broad spectrum of the mobile computing industry, including operators, infrastructure vendors, device vendors, middleware providers and application vendors.
- We will provide an LCD projector.
- Since PCCA meetings are considered public meetings, please do not include any confidential or proprietary information.