Wireless USB group finishes 1.0 specification

There is a real demand for a high-speed cable replacement technology for some uses, ABI’s Benjamin said. For example, the best way to keep a handheld digital camcorder connected to a PC would be wirelessly, without a cable to get in the way, he pointed out. But streaming the video signal would take a lot of bandwidth.

"We don’t really have a way to do wireless communication at this level of speed," he said.