First six Wireless USB products arrive
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 23, 2007 at 10:31am
The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has announced the first six consumer products to pass compliance and certification testing for Certified Wireless USB. Products from Dell, D-Link, IOGEAR and Lenovo will introduce the Certified Wireless USB technology to consumers in the form of notebooks, Wireless USB host adapters and hubs.
Similar to the Hi-Speed USB logo, consumers can now look for the Certified Wireless USB logo on product packaging and/or hardware for all products that have passed certification. This logo is a sign to consumers that these products have been tested for interoperability and will work with other Certified Wireless USB devices, said USB-IF President Jeff Ravencraft.
Certified Wireless USB is the first high-speed wireless personal interconnect technology combining the speed and security of wired Hi-Speed USB with the ease-of-use-of wireless technology, he adds. It’s backward compatible with wired USB, allows users to connect up to 127 devices and delivers a bandwidth of up to 480Mb/second at three meters and 110Mb/second at 10 meters.
Certified Wireless USB is based on the WiMedia Alliance Ultra-wideband Common Radio Platform. The Wireless USB Promoter Group, consisting of seven companies—Agere Systems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Philips Semiconductors and Samsung—defined the core Certified Wireless USB specification with the support of more than 100 contributor members.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
