The UWB Forum was an industry organization dedicated to ensuring that Ultra-Wideband (UWB) products from multiple vendors are truly interoperable. The majority members Motorola and Freescale left the group in 2006 and the UWB Forum is now defunct.

IEEE

IEEE 802.15.3a

IEEE 802.15

IEEE 802.15 is a working group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802 standards committee which specifies wireless personal area network standards. It includes seven task groups.-Task group 1 :...

 was an attempt to provide a higher speed UWB PHY enhancement amendment to IEEE 802.15.3 for applications which involve imaging and multimedia.
IEEE 802.15.3a UWB standardisation attempt failed due to contrast between WiMedia Alliance and UWB Forum. On January 19, 2006 IEEE 802.15.3a task group (TG3a) members voted to withdraw the December 2002 project authorization request (PAR) that initiated the development of high data rate UWB standards.
The IEEE 802.15.3a most commendable achievement was the consolidation of 23 UWB PHY specifications into two proposals using : Multi-Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) UWB, supported by the WiMedia Alliance, and Direct Sequence - UWB (DS-UWB), supported by the UWB Forum.

External links

• UWB Forum (DEFUNCT) (this link does not work nowadays, April 2010)
• WiMedia Alliance