XtremeSpectrum Demonstrates Industry's First Ultra-wideband Product; Trinity Chipset Is Capable of Broadcasting 6 MPEG-2 Video Streams Wirelessly.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers XtremeSpectrum Inc., a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. dedicated to bringing ultra-wideband (UWB (Ultra-WideBand) A wireless technology that uses less power and provides higher speed than 802.11 Wi-Fi networks or first-generation Bluetooth products. UWB is expected to provide wireless video transmission for home theater systems, cable TV, auto safety and ) products to the wireless industry, today demonstrated the extreme bandwidth and "wire-like" video quality of its new Trinity chipset, a wireless semiconductor solution that is ideal for applications in the consumer connectivity market. Using the popular MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 2 video format, the company broadcast six video streams to six separate flat panel displays simultaneously across the room using a single ultra-wideband connection. As important, the streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. , enabled by Trinity, offered true "wire-like" performance while co-existing with an 802.11b system, a microwave oven, a cellular/PCS phone and a cordless phone A wireless telephone that transmits to and receives signals from a base station within a range of a few hundred feet. Cordless phones are for local use and cannot travel long distances as can cellphones and satellite phones. See DECT and multihandset cordless. -- all in simultaneous operation Noun 1. simultaneous operation - the simultaneous execution of two or more operations parallel operation operation - (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a . "Since our announcement of the industry's first ultra-wideband product last month, the response to Trinity has been tremendous," said Martin Rofheart, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of XtremeSpectrum. "With six simultaneous streams of video, this demonstration is intended to showcase not only the high performance capabilities of our ultra-wideband product, but Trinity's ability to co-exist with systems and products in the popular 2.4 GHz and PCS/cellular ranges found in most homes today. And, not only does Trinity co-exist with these various technologies, but the video remains unperturbed despite moving people, furniture and walls, all of which are factors in a typical residential scenario. Based on this demonstration, we believe ultra-wideband will become the pervasive wireless technology for consumer connectivity applications." Today's technology exhibition, held at the Argent ar·gent n. 1. Heraldry The metal silver, represented by the color white. 2. Archaic Silver or something resembling it. Hotel in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , represents the first time an ultra-wideband chipset has been demonstrated in a commercial communications application. The Trinity chipset, introduced in June, represents XtremeSpectrum's first ultra-wideband product and the industry's first commercial unlicensed ultra-wideband silicon solution. With an aggregate data rate of 100 Mbps, the Trinity chipset is easily capable of transmitting multiple streams of digital video and audio within the typical North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. residential environment. With each MPEG-2 stream running at up to 12 Mbps, the Trinity chipset clearly demonstrates adequate payload capacity for multiple streams of digital video along with wire-like viewing quality. "Our goal with Trinity has been to achieve wire-like viewing quality, while still meeting the extremely low power consumption specifications of the consumer electronics manufacturers," said John McCorkle, chief technology officer at XtremeSpectrum. "We are very pleased with the performance of the Trinity chipset and, as important, we are proud of our engineering team for executing on XtremeSpectrum's vision to create a high speed, low power, low cost wireless solution for multimedia-centric applications." The Need For Higher Bandwidth Today's digital video transmissions use MPEG-2 for encoding and require up to 12 Mbps to broadcast the video. In addition, higher rate encoding standards such as HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates and MPEG-2HD (High Definition) use higher rate transmissions in excess of 20 Mbps per video stream. Leading DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. companies have stated that they are moving to MPEG-2HD, underscoring the need for a wireless home technology that can deliver extremely high bandwidth for multiple channels of digital video transmission. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Consumer Electronics Association of America, DVD equipment sales for North America are forecasted to reach approximately 17 million units in 2003, representing a significant market opportunity for wireless connectivity solutions. First Commercial Ultra-wideband Product Demonstration Demonstrating ultra-wideband's wireless connectivity capabilities to customers, reporters, and analysts, XtremeSpectrum has shown that the Trinity chipset is uniquely suited to deliver the high data rates and wire-like video/audio quality that the home market demands for wireless connectivity solutions. XtremeSpectrum has stated it will deliver its Trinity chipset as a physical layer evaluation kit to OEMs of consumer electronics, display, computer, and peripheral products beginning this quarter. Commercial production is scheduled for mid 2003, and, based on customer input, end user consumer electronics products leveraging Trinity are then expected as early as Christmas 2003. Pricing for the Trinity chipset is $19.95 each in quantities of 100,000+. About XtremeSpectrum's Ultra-wideband Technology Ultra-wideband is a wireless technology that transmits an extremely low power signal over a wide swath of radio spectrum. Unlike conventional radio systems that operate within a relatively narrow bandwidth, i.e. Bluetooth, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, ultra-wideband operates across a wide range of frequency spectrum by transmitting a series of very narrow and low power pulses. The combination of broader spectrum, lower power and pulsed data means that ultra-wideband causes less interference than conventional narrowband radio solutions, and delivers wire-like performance in an indoor wireless environment. This makes ultra-wideband technology ideal for consumer electronics applications such as camcorders, laptops, DVDs, digital cameras, etc. About XtremeSpectrum Founded in 1998, XtremeSpectrum Inc. is a wireless communications company developing system semiconductor solutions for the multimedia connectivity industry. Leveraging its unique understanding of ultra-wideband, XtremeSpectrum's patent-pending, ultra-wideband digital radio will allow multimedia-enabled devices, such as phones, set-top boxes, laptops, DVDs, video recorders and PDAs, to send and receive multiple streams of digital video, audio and data wirelessly, all at extremely low price points and power consumption levels--levels that cannot be reached by existing solutions. XtremeSpectrum will focus on customers in the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and consumer electronic, OEM PC, PC-peripheral manufacturing, and wireless networking ODM/OEM spaces. For more information about the company, please call 703/269-3000 or visit http://www.xtremespectrum.com. XtremeSpectrum is a trademark of XtremeSpectrum Inc. 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