Staccato Communications and SK Telecom plan to deliver Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless personal area network (WPAN) mobile phone services. The adoption of UWB will result in a host of new mobile handset applications. SK Telecom selected Staccato’s Ripcord single-chip, all CMOS-based family of solutions.

As a result of this partnership, customers will be provided with increased choices for content delivery from access points, connecting mobile phones to larger displays and sharing profiles and content from one user to another through personal area social networking (PASN).

Services developed and launched by SK Telecom and Staccato will be standardized and offered worldwide to other operators after initial launch in Korea. With the choice of the WiMedia Common Radio Platform as the foundation for the project, SK Telecom and Staccato are developing together applications using several protocols. This benefit is enabled by Staccato’s PIK MAC (Medium Access Control) technology, which is a Protocol Independent Kernel, based on a custom implementation of hardware acceleration and ARM9 software control. This technology enables the simultaneous operation of Certified Wireless USB, WiNet, Bluetooth 3.0 and other potential protocols at speeds up to 480 Mbps. Products will initially launch with WiMedia radios using spectrum below 6 GHz (band group 1, band 3), and add above 6 GHz operation when the WiMedia Alliance completes the certification process for these bands.

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