BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY TO DOUBLE CABLE TELEVISION BANDWIDTH
"Ultra Wideband technology is not just for wireless communications anymore," states Bruce Watkins, President and COO of the San Diego-based Pulse-LINK. Although the two-year old company continues to be a leader in the development of UWB technology for wireless communications, Pulse~LINK's over-wire technology offers immediate application of UWB. "We believe we are the only company with an extensive body of Intellectual Property in the over-wire application of UWB technology and have been extremely tight-lipped about this innovation until our foundation Patent Portfolio was completely in place." The Company anticipates its UWB wired and wireless technologies integrating perfectly to provide a seamless broadband delivery and networking experience throughout the home and office.
Pulse~LINK Founder and Chief Technology Officer John Santhoff states, "Pulse-LINK's UWB over-cable initiative is a direct outgrowth of our UWB wireless efforts. The amount of bandwidth that this technology is capable of delivering over wired media has exceeded our original expectations. We are very excited and look to see this technology applied in many ways never envisioned for UWB." He adds, "Given the fact that multi-billion dollar wired industries already exist while wireless is still in its infancy and crowded with competing technologies, we are extremely happy to be bringing our exclusive UWB over-wire technology to market now. The wired and wireless versions of UWB are perfect compliments to each other."
Pulse~LINK is currently conducting ongoing demonstrations for potential partners of its Pulse~LINK UWB-Cable to validate its technology for use across existing Hybrid Fiber Coax System (HFCS) architectures used by the cable television industry. UWB-Cable signals are introduced using inexpensive equipment at the cable head-end and extracted at the customer premises with end user-installed equipment that operates seamlessly with most existing and deployed digital set-top boxes. The Pulse~LINK technology does not interfere with or degrade television, high-speed Internet, voice or other services already provided or projected by the CATV industry. Existing CATV networks supply information and content using signals referenced in the frequency domain. CATV channels typically occupy 6 MHz in the US and 8 MHz in Europe.
Pulse~LINK UWB-Cable provides an unmatched performance and price opportunity to help CATV operators and industry evolve and accommodate new technologies such as High Definition Television, which has been extremely difficult for cable operators to accommodate due to the significantly higher bandwidth requirements of HDTV. It will also help the cable industry stay competitive with new technologies and services from digital satellite and telephone companies and create tremendous new markets for content providers. For content providers concerned about encryption and digital piracy, the Pulse~LINK UWB-Cable technology could offer perhaps the most secure over-wire digital transmission technology available.
Pulse~LINK UWB-Cable has tremendous international implications as well. It performs equally well across varying international standards for cable television such as NTSC, PAL and SECAM. Until now, the rollout of digital cable services has been largely limited to North America. Over half of the world's cable television subscribers use older analog systems. The Pulse~LINK UWB-Cable technology could enable the most effective and least expensive means of bringing hundreds of megabits of new digital bandwidth to over two hundred fifty million cable subscribers on older legacy systems.
In addition to Video on Demand and Subscription Video on Demand, potential benefits that the Pulse~LINK over-wire technology could make affordable and available to consumers in the very near future include Interactive Television, T-Commerce (Television Commerce), Gaming, High Definition Television over Cable, Internet Protocol Telephony (VoIP) and significantly higher bandwidths for data networking and Internet browsing.
Approved by the FCC for commercial use on February 14, 2002, UWB has been praised as being poised to dominate wireless personal and local area networking in the future. Unique to Ultra Wideband is that it delivers broadband communications without using an RF Carrier for its signal. Instead, data is transmitted using time and amplitude modulated pulses of less than one nanosecond in duration. UWB can peacefully co-exist with carrier frequencies without interference and, by reusing the RF spectrum, it opens vast communications possibilities to ease the growing bandwidth crunch. The technology currently can deliver hundreds of megabits of data, with theoretical capacity in the Gigabit range. The broad spectral nature of UWB pulses also allows these wireless communications to penetrate walls and obstacles better than existing technologies that are based on narrow bands of carrier frequency, and the extremely short timing between UWB pulses can provide positional accuracy on UWB devices to within one-centimeter resolution.
Pulse~LINK, Inc. is a private Delaware Corporation founded in June, 2000. The Company has almost eighty issued and pending patents pertaining to Ultra Wideband wired and wireless communications technology. In May, 2001, Pulse~LINK acquired the assets and intellectual property of another leading Ultra Wideband technology company, Fantasma Networks, which was located in Silicon Valley. Pulse~LINK was initially founded and located in Panama City, Florida and, following the acquisition of Fantasma, moved all operations to San Diego in order to be at the heart of telecommunications innovation. For more information, please visit the Pulse~LINK web site at http://www.pulselink.net
About Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Pulse~LINK, Inc. is a privately held Delaware Corporation
headquartered in Carlsbad, California, with nearly 300 issued and
pending patents pertaining to UWB wired and wireless
communications technology. Pulse~LINK's CWave® solution provides
up to Gigabit data rates over coax and wireless networks from the
same chipset, enabling consumers the unprecedented ability to
stream and distribute high quality multimedia content throughout
the home. CWave® solutions have the ability to support both 1394
and Gigabit Ethernet over coax as well as wireless HDMI. For
additional information about Pulse~LINK, Inc., please visit: http://www.pulselink.net.
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For More Information:
Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Laurie Watkins
Tel: (858) 794-9414
Mobile: (858) 349-1989
Email: lwatkins@pulselink.net