Motorola partners with XtremeSpectrum on ultrawideband (UWB) products, proposal: Motorola will use XtremeSpectrum's technology and partner with them on an IEEE proposal. The IEEE 802.15.3a task group is working on a physical layer standard for Personal Area Networking (PAN). (IEEE 802.15.1 is the group that created a Bluetooth subset in conjunction with the Bluetooth SIG; 802.15.2 is the co-existence with WLAN task group.) UWB is a method of using ultrashort, low-power pulses to communicate enormous amounts of information, but it requires swaths of spectrum. UWB advocates contend that UWB's nature makes it impossible to interfere with other uses of the same spectrum, as UWB is below the noise/duration threshold for current spread-spectrum and other radio technologies.

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