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Fast links to the digital home.(Editorial)
Byline: Clive Akass
Fast links to the digital home
The news this month is dominated by the emerging fast links that will be needed to realise the potential of the digital home and the first generation of truly mobile PCs.
High Speed Download Packet Access (HSDPA) services, just being rolled out, will soon face competition from Wimax. Both technologies promise multi-megabit wireless access on the move, though there remains some doubt about what you can expect in practice (see page 24).
In the home, the latest data-over-mains products look almost too good to be true: you can set up a network with a real throughput of 80Mbits/sec by plugging adapters into power sockets.
Already there is talk of fitting the technology into consumer-electronics devices such as TVs, allowing them to talk to each other and to PCs. Manufacturers even claim to have answered fears about cumulative interference (see page 14).
Two flavours of Ultra Wideband (UWB) Wireless links will soon challenge the dominance of Wifi for local untethered links. Wireless USB dongles and hubs, about to launch in the US, will allow you to get rid of the mess of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Fast links to the digital home.(Editorial)