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Ecma developing standard for the 60GHz band

From "Ecma develops 60 GHz radio standard," Ecma press release, 12 February 2007:

"Ecma International is developing an International Standard for 60 GHz technology for very high data rate short range unlicensed communications aiming at bulk data transfer, high-definition multimedia streaming and wireless personal area networking applications.

"At its meeting from 30 January to 2 February in Atlanta, Ecma's TC32-TG20 task group reviewed proposal presentations for a complete (PHY+MAC) standard for low power 2 to 10 Gigabit/s data transport. The standard intends to ensure compatibility and interoperability for different usage/application scenarios by defining a common framing structure.

"At the Atlanta meeting, ETRI, GEDC (Georgia Tech), Intel, KU (Korea University), Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic), NewLANS, Philips and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd./Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. reached a major milestone by analysing standard proposals that will give rise to a slew of next generation wireless applications...

" 'Enabling wireless multi-gigabit data rates at the lowest power and lowest cost ever achieved is a tremendous advantage of the emerging CMOS based 60GHz technology,' said Dr. Haksun Kim, VP of Wireless Solutions Lab in Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., LTD.

" 'A complete and scalable WPAN/WLAN standard solution is required to radically change today's user experience, by eliminating the hassle of multiple and different wired interconnect,' said Dr. Wooyong Lee the technical leader at ETRI for 60 GHz technologies...
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From the TC32-TG20 webpage:

Upcoming meetings:

14 February 2007, teleconference on 60 GHz
21 February 2007, teleconference on 60 GHz
27 February - 01 March 2007 in Briarcliff Manor (NY), USA
7 March 2007, teleconference on 60 GHz
13 - 15 March 2007 in San Jose (CA), USA
14 March 2007, teleconference on 60 GHz
21 March 2007, teleconference on 60 GHz
28 March 2007, teleconference on 60 GHz...

"Most of the follow-on meetings noted above will be used to integrate the best parts of the proposals into the Standard..."

[Standards - 15 February 2007]

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