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News Release from: Open Interface North America
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Team on 05 January 2006
Demo puts HD video over Bluetooth+UWB
Open Interface will provide the industry's first public demonstration of high definition (HD) video streaming over Bluetooth+ultrawideband today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Open Interface will provide the industry's first public demonstration of high definition (HD) video streaming over Bluetooth+ultrawideband (UWB) today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas The demonstration uses Open Interface's Bluetusk technology to integrate Bluetooth and Freescale Semiconductor's UWB technology, underscoring the potential in combining two of the most promising wireless technologies today
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The demonstration, showcased on the Freescale booth 70448F at the Sands Convention centre, represents a significant milestone in the merging of the two technologies.
Indeed, this is the second Bluetooth+UWB demonstration from Open Interface and Freescale since the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced its intention to leverage UWB for high rate applications in May 2005.
"Following our demonstration of file transfer at WiCon Americas in October, today's demonstration of video streaming reinforces Freescale's commitment to the marriage of Bluetooth+UWB", said Martin Rofheart, Director of the Ultra-Wideband Operation at Freescale.
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"This demonstration is the next major step toward combining the strengths of Bluetooth and UWB and showcases the path to interoperability for high rate video applications".
"Bluetooth defines a standard for video distribution, but without the high datarate of UWB, applications that consumers desire, such as MPEG2 video transfer or HD streaming from cellphone to laptop, aren't feasible", said Greg Burns, CTO of Open Interface.
"The combination of Bluetooth+UWB leverages Bluetooth's core strengths in ad hoc connectivity and interoperability, making consumer devices easy to connect, configure and use".
"We are extremely pleased by our progress and look forward to achieving even greater functionality and interoperability with Bluetooth and UWB".
The demonstration highlights the consumer application possibilities from the on-going integration of Bluetooth and UWB.
The hardware setup features two laptops, each enabled with a UWB module and Bluetooth dongle.
One laptop is a video source, and the other is connected to a large display monitor.
An initial wireless connection is established between the laptops using Bluetooth only.
When the video application is started, the laptops use Open Interface's Bluetusk software to open a parallel UWB connection channel within the Bluetooth protocol stack using Freescale's XS110 DS-UWB radios.
This higher bandwidth channel is used to stream a 20Mbit/s high definition video signal between the laptops while maintaining full Bluetooth device interoperability at all times.
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