ExtremeTech's Mark Hachman reports that startup SiBEAM today revealed its new WirelessHD solution, which is designed to "deliver a promised gigabit per second of multimedia content throughout the home, wirelessly."

"SiBEAM's competitive advantage lies in two areas: its high-speed, interference-free frequency band, and its directional technology," Hachman writes. "SiBEAM's technology operates in the 60 GHz or 'millimeter-wave' unlicensed band, with 7 GHz of frequency with which to operate. Depending upon the region of the world, UWB operates from 1.5 to 7.5 GHz, while 802.11n uses the 2.4-GHz band. WiMAX is the only technology that can use a similar 60 GHz band, although it also uses a range down to 10 GHz."

Concurrently, as EE Times' Rick Merritt notes, the wirelesshd Interest Group released its specification for final review.

More here from EE Times' John Walko ... and the press release is here.