"Certified Wireless USB , built on the WiMedia UWB platform, is designed to
usher today's more than 2 billion wired USB devices into the area of wireless
serviceability," said Jeff Ravencraft, president and chairman of the USB
Implementers Forum.

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, Staccato Communications, Realtek
Semiconductor, WiQuest Communications and Wisair.
WiMedia Alliance's UWB platform brings several areas of opportunity to the
marketplace: enabling communication between chipsets built by different
manufacturers and the competitive products that result; as well as the ability
for multiple applications such as Next Generation Bluetooth, Certified
Wireless USB, Wireless 1394 and wireless IP to operate within the same
wireless personal area network (WPAN). The basis for
the industry's first UWB standards (published by Ecma International ), WiMedia
UWB is optimized for wireless personal-area networks delivering high-speed
(480Mbps and beyond), low-power multimedia capabilities for the PC, CE, mobile
and automotive market segments .

Business Editors/Technology Writers
CTIA Wireless 2005
Booth #861

PORTLAND, Ore .saforum.

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"This WiMedia interoperability event marks the first, official recording
of devices from different vendors 'talking' to each other."
Held January 23 - 25 at the Intel UWB Integration Lab in Hillsboro, the
WiMedia Alliance workshop provided a confidential environment for companies to
assess interoperability during device development phases.
The SA Forum specifications include the Hardware Platform
Interface Specification (HPI) and the Application Interface
Specification (AIS).

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Companies including HP, IBM, Motorola, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Sun
Microsystems, GoAhead Software, Intel, Clovis Solutions, Solid
Information Technology and MontaVista Software are implementing SA
Forum specifications, enabling the development of Carrier-Grade
Platforms using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) building blocks.

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Formal
certification testing is expected to roll out first for the PHY at the end of
Q1'06, followed by application building blocks by end of Q2'06 and consumer
products by late Fall 2006.

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frees up organizations to dedicate a greater focus on their core
competencies, thus increasing their distinctive value to their
customers.
"Companies are recognizing the value of implementing open
specifications in their products and the competitive edge that it
gives them," said Deepak Shahane, president of the SA Forum.

Non-Vendor Organizations that are predominately focussed on issues surrounding Data Communications - from the physical layer through to the application layer.

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"Implementing SA Forum specifications allow companies to deliver the
high service availability that their customers demand.

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Alliance members
have proven through product performance and upcoming event inquiries that
we're ready to support a consumer-focused, UWB market," commented Brad Hosler,
chairman of the WiMedia Alliance Certification and Interoperability Committee
and Intel representative. Other benefits of implementing SA Forum specifications
include: faster time to market and revenue; broader component choice;
reduced lifecycle costs; and the ability to tap into an expanded
market for open standard products. In order to
meet this demand, more and more companies will be releasing products
based on SA Forum specifications this year. To achieve this
goal, the Service Availability Forum develops and publishes high
availability and management software interface specifications while
promoting and facilitating their adoption by industry.

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wimedia .

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For more information,
please visit http://www. Service
Availability Forum membership offers the opportunity to help frame and
implement the Service Availability solution.saforum.

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Both WiMedia UWB benefits are critical
to the wireless technology's success in the consumer market as they enable
consumer choice and product differentiation through varying functionality with
data rates up to 480Mbps.

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, The WiMedia(TM) Alliance today
announced that its first formal interoperability workshop successfully
demonstrated initial ultra-wideband (UWB) silicon interoperability between
five different manufacturers, Alereon, Inc. Recent product announcements,
the results of this event and member interest in future events indicate that
numerous vendors are quickly readying devices for market use, thereby
standardizing the WiMedia UWB common radio platform.

SA Forum Specifications Realize Commercially Available Products; SA Forum Demonstrates Spec Implementations at CTIA Wireless 2005

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About The WiMedia Alliance
The WiMedia Alliance is a not-for-profit open industry association that
promotes and enables the rapid adoption, regulation, standardization and
multi-vendor interoperability of ultra-wideband (UWB) worldwide.

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The
same WiMedia PHY specification is also published as part of the industry's
first UWB standard ECMA-368 by Ecma International.

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Industry-Leading UWB Organization 's Radio Platform Achieving Market Success
Through Multi-Vendor Interoperability

SAN RAMON, Calif. WiMedia's board members include Alereon, HP, Intel, Kodak,
Microsoft , Nokia, Philips, Samsung Electronics, Sony, STMicroelectronics,
Staccato Communications, Texas Instruments and Wisair. By implementing these specifications, companies
are able to take advantage of a growing number of COTS products that
are capable of cooperating in an SA Forum compliant architecture.org

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"The recent interoperability workshop's results
illustrated industry readiness for WiMedia certification, which supports our
goal to help member companies ship devices based on Certified Wireless USB
this year. These
companies will be represented at CTIA Wireless 2005 where they will
demonstrate products that utilize SA Forum specifications.

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"
Members participating in this and future interoperability workshops,
scheduled quarterly, also contribute to the construction and refinement of all
test processes comprising the WiMedia Alliance Certification Program. The
booth participants include HP , IBM, Motorola, Fujitsu Siemens
Computers, Clovis Solutions, Oracle, GoAhead Software, Ericsson, Solid
Information Technology, Sun Microsystems, Intel and MontaVista
Software. For more information
about the Service Availability Forum, visit www.

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----The Service
Availability(TM) Forum (SA Forum ), the leader in developing open
specifications for carrier-grade service availability, today announced
that its specifications are being implemented by industry leaders."
SA Forum members are showcasing their SA Forum spec
implementations at CTIA Wireless 2005 in booth #861.

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The event's success
solidifies the Alliance's projection that consumers will be able to purchase
WiMedia certified products during the second half of 2006. "Whether implementing the radio platform in CE, PC,
mobile or automotive consumer products, product manufacturers will have their
choice of chipsets to build distinctive end products. Emphasizing peaceful coexistence with other
wireless services, the WiMedia UWB common radio platform is designed to
operate with application stacks developed by the 1394 Trade Association
Wireless Working Group, the Certified Wireless USB Promoter Group and the
Bluetooth-SIG. Members have
joined forces to create and demonstrate base platforms and service
provider applications built with SA Forum-based building blocks.

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WiMedia Alliance Successfully Completes First Interoperability Workshop

The consequent
accomplishment of five vendor chipsets interoperating validated that the
WiMedia Alliance's physical (PHY) layer specification is well documented.org

About the Service Availability(TM) Forum

The Service Availability(TM) Forum is a consortium of
industry -leading communications and computing companies working
together to foster an ecosystem that enables the use of commercial
off-the-shelf building blocks in the creation of high availability
network infrastructure products, systems and services.

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For more information about the SA Forum and commercially available
SA Forum products, visit www.

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