no, they are scheduled to decide the issue then..
but as you see from recent press releases they are
already putting together the new management team...
this company is actually being run by the money people
(bentley)
gtmi is the sub division given money to bring this
kind of technology to reality
here is a copy of a company that is developing the
same kind of technology...this is the big picture;
The potential impact is astounding. If the technology lives up to its promise, it would be like the leap from vacuum tubes to the transistor or from oil lamps to light bulbs, touching every home and workplace. Wireless communicators could get down to the size of a quarter. Radar could become cheap and commonplace. A home radar system could be used for security, detecting movement inside and distinguishing a cat from a man. Already a reality is hand-held radar that police can use to see inside a room before bursting in.
The pulse technology, sometimes also called ultra-wide band (UWB), could launch whole new industries and reorder several existing ones in coming decades.
"This is a technology that's as radical as anything that's come up in recent years," says Paul Turner, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers who has studied Time Domain and advised the upstart company. Others agree. Representatives from major technology companies have trooped to Huntsville the past few months. "If they can really pull it off in volume, it can be quite huge," says IBM Vice President Ron Soicher, who admits to getting goose bumps when he realized the potential.
The technology is digital. Each of the whizzing pulses is a 1 or 0, so the transmissions are as flexible as a computer, able to handle phone calls, data or video. The pulses can carry information or media as fast as the speediest corporate Internet connection. The pulse technology has other advantages:
band of believers grows
In Time Domain's offices are prototypes of a wireless phone that can measure the distance to the other party, cameras that can transmit video wirelessly to a computer screen, and radar that works indoors and through walls, which conventional radar can't do. The prototypes are hand-built and clunky. "We haven't built a lot of things yet, so we don't know how much reality will intrude on theory," CEO Ralph Petroff says. "But our guys say they can do it."
The list of believers is growing. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has contacted Time Domain because its radar technology could pinpoint victims beneath an earthquake's rubble. "This technology has the potential to reduce casualties among civilians and rescue workers alike," says a comment FEMA filed with the Federal Communications Commission.
The Marines have been looking at Time Domain prototypes because they'd like a walkie-talkie that's not only undetectable but can tell a Marine the location of all the other members of his unit. The Immigration and Naturalization Service is doing a pilot project with Time Domain. It's interested in ways the technology could be used along the border. Put a wireless, low-power camera in a cactus, and it could transmit video back to INS agents; no need to string telltale wires across the desert.
A few pulse technology products are ready for a broader market, pending FCC approval. Time Domain has made hand-held radar that police could use to see inside a room before bursting in. A couple of small companies are making pulse radar devices for measuring liquid in steel storage tanks. A handful of research labs, such as the UltRa Lab at the University of Southern California, are experimenting with pulses.
Mass-market products are still years away. Cell phones, Petroff predicts, are a decade off. "There are still three to four iterations of design that have to go on before we really know if it all looks good," says Robert Scholtz of UltRa Lab. "Still, no one has disproved its potential."
Recent developments are giving the technology a head of steam. |
