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Honourable intentions
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23/06/2005
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Connectivity is, of course, the latest thing. Whether it’s providing new ways of accessing information from a mobile device or finding different ways to pass data between static units, the communications industry is spawning a range of communications protocols.
One reason for the growing interest in ways of passing information is due simply to the boom in digital consumer electronics products. How, for instance, can you send digital images to your pc without first having to wire it up? Similarly, how can that jumble of cables be removed from behind your pc? One possible solution to this problem is ultrawide band communications, or uwb.
But questions similar to those answered by uwb have been asked for some years now in the office environment. When I’m on the road, for example, how can my laptop communicate with a laser printer in someone else’s office? The solution in this instance has been Bluetooth and its ad hoc networking ability. Essentially, Bluetooth lets devices communicate when they come into range of each other through the creation of personal area networks.
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Author
Graham Pitcher
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