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WiMedia Alliance Partners With Wireless Alliance for Testing Experiment and Research (WALTER) to Advance European UWB Test Specifications
| Source: WiMedia Alliance
SAN RAMON, CA--(Marketwire - September 30, 2008) - The WiMedia Alliance today announced that it
is partnering with the Wireless Alliance for Testing Experiment and
Research (WALTER) to focus on furthering European development of technology
required for measurement, calibration and testing of UWB radio products.
This collaboration, called the WALTER project, includes several partners
worldwide and aims to create a pan-European interconnected testbed, and to
boost the European innovation potential to develop new applications and
services based on extremely high capacity networks.
Through this collaboration, researchers with the WALTER project will have
direct access to members of the WiMedia Alliance who are involved in the
development of the specifications providing them with instantaneous access
to test specifications. WiMedia will have access to WALTER regulatory tests
and to three WALTER independent testing labs located in Europe and China,
helping drive international acceptance and adoption of WiMedia standards.
"This relationship is another example of our commitment to rapid deployment
of WiMedia UWB standards on an international basis and to have the support
in place that is needed for adoption," said Roberto Aiello, chairman,
WiMedia Certification Review Board. "Our participation with the Walter
project goes hand-in-hand with our partnerships with other global efforts
including our existing partnerships with the European Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI) and Ecma International, an international
standards organization."
About the WiMedia Alliance
The WiMedia Alliance is a not-for-profit open industry association that
promotes and enables the rapid adoption, regulation, standardization and
multi-vendor interoperability of ultra-wideband (UWB) worldwide. The basis
for the industry's first UWB standards (published by Ecma International),
WiMedia UWB is optimized for wireless personal-area networks delivering
high-speed (480Mbps and beyond), low-power multimedia capabilities for the
PC, CE, mobile and automotive market segments. Emphasizing peaceful
coexistence with other wireless services, the WiMedia UWB Common Radio
Platform is designed to operate with application stacks developed by the
Certified Wireless USB Promoter Group, the Bluetooth-SIG and proprietary
implementations. Further information on the WiMedia Alliance and its
certification program is available at www.wimedia.org
About WALTER
WALTER is a project co-financed by the European Commission under the 7th
framework program for RTD. Started in January 2008 it will last 2 years.
Gathering 8 organisations from Europe and China, the project WALTER
addresses the need for broadband testbeds by overcoming the technical
issues of measuring low level, high datarate radio signals. The resulting
worldwide interconnected testbeds will address the short term needs of
industry and regulators but also the longer-term needs of research
communities.
Further information on the WALTER project is available at www.walter-uwb.eu