Kikkoman

First off, there is free wireless at the conference, and so the iChat Rendevous list has 22 ppl on. Neat.

Frequencies: 900 2.4 5 24 & 60
Didn’t know about the 24 and 60 GHz spectrum.

This is the first panel that the Bluetooth guy has been on since CTIA and basically got chewed out on how much bluetooth sucks as compared to wifi.

About a dozen medical bluetooth devices. PulseOx. (Oh Really)
Fedex guy has 3 bluetooth devices: Printer, PDA, wrist watch device.

Spec for streaming audio over bluetooth just came out. Eg stream audio from the iPod to a blue tooth headset. Nifty but, eh.

UWB guy: been at this 5 years and there aren’t any chipsets yet, so the “slow” pace of bluetooth isn’t so bad.

The FCC is open to unlicened spectrum: just opened up 255 MHz. Unlicenced TV: 3650-3700.

Wireless USB using UWB. High data rate, short distance. Hehe, the list of companies onboard looks like a Nascar.

SDMA guy: extension of wifi (didn’t explain what that means)
The state of Wifi: Stat from unnamed wifi manufacturer: 25% of the wireless access points they ship out result in a service call.

For all these standards, what do you define as success. EG, wireless irda is pretty much on every laptop and cell phone, but does anybody use it?

QA: time
First guy is a blowhard. Point is that all the tech hear is pretty much only “urban” only. Response is that WiMax is looking at 3 km 802.11.

Security:
Bluetooth: invited the guy that discovered the snarfing hole to join the security panel. Wifi: WEP –> 802.11i. Wep isn’t great, but it does raise the barriers to entry. USB UWB Wireless –> security thru distance.