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Industry Events -- CES 2005 Emerging Technologies

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

January 6-9, 2005    Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
www.CESweb.org/

We organized and moderated an "Emerging Technologies" session covering new wireless networking technologies in three areas:

• Metropolitan areas (covering a town or city): WiMAX/802.16
• Local areas (within a building): 802.11n (the next generation of Wi-Fi)
• Personal areas (within a room): UWB and Wireless USB.

The presentations and speakers included:

Broadband On Steroids (PowerPoint, 0.2 MB)

• David J. Waks, Co-founder, BroadbandHomeCentral.com (Moderator) provided an overview and introduced the speakers.

WiMAX: What’s All The Fuss About? (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 0.7 MB)

• Dr. Sayed-Amr “Sisso” El-Hamamsy, President and CEO, Wi-LAN, Inc. introduced WiMAX: broadband wireless for large metropolitan areas. He discussed the status of the 802.16 standards and the role of the WiMAX Forum.

MIMO Technology: The Reliable Wireless Digital Home Network is Here Now (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 1.6 MB)

• Greg Raleigh, Ph.D., President and CEO, Airgo Networks described the coming emergence of a single digital home network. He discussed the critical role of MIMO (multiple input multiple output) "smart antenna" technology and the upcoming 802.11n standard—the next generation of Wi-Fi.

Wireless USB Initiative: First Hi-Speed WPAN Interconnect (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 4.7 MB)

• Jeff Ravencraft, Technology Strategist, Intel Corporation and Chairman, Wireless USB Promoter Group discussed the emerging UWB (ultra wideband) technology and its application to Wireless USB.

(Coming soon)

• Robert Pepper, Chief, Office of Plans and Policy, Federal Communications Commission