Licensed Wireless USB (WUSB) provides you with 100 times more of the Bluetooth bandwidth, demanding fewer energy sources. Thus it provides an opportunity to connect all types of accessories: external drives, phones, printers, music players, monitors, speakers – about 127 simultaneous peripheral connections can be implemented.
There is no more necessity to use the bulk of cords which are spread like the web, and say goodbye to your docking point. When you’re working at your workstation all the accessories are connected with the computer in automatic way, and the workability does not suffer.
It’s only theoretical point, though. The WUSB connectivity is at the beginning of its life, and only some of the recently manufactured notebooks have it – there are even fewer manner of accessories which are compatible with it. It is available in the Lenovo ThinkPad T61, Toshiba Portege, and Dell Inspiron. For the present moment, the peripheral support can be found only in WUSB hubs, in a nutshell, you only get rid of the wire between the hub and the notebook, other devices are still provided with a cord.
But this is only for the present moment, as the scientific progress is on top of its development. “Considering WUSB, the development of its functions will have its roots in the next year, Involving more and more personal computers which use it and more accessories (besides hub) which are compatible with it, as well as electronic computer peripherals which will come out with this option”, noted Serdar Yurdakul, administrator of business development at WUSB chip-producer Wisair.
Single-chip models such as Wisair’s will gradually low the costs so that notebook manufacturers will consider them to be appropriate to build in, like in case of Wi-Fi connectivity. For the present moment, though, the costs for the technology is high enough from USD 70 on ThinkPad T61 to USD 200 for Toshiba R400 that also involves a dock connector.
