While we often don’t discuss startups, at CES we found a company called
Keyssa that claims to have the technology to do away with wired
connectors entirely. Normally, these claims are rather misleading, but
in the case of Keyssa it seems that this is quite possible as the
company was formed as a spin-off from research at UCLA labs. Similar to
802.11ad, Keyssa uses the 60 GHz spectrum to deliver immense amounts of
bandwidth (6 Gbps), but at much lower power levels. This lower power
level does constrain the range of this technology to a few centimeters
or so, similar to NFC.
n addition to the immense bandwidth, Keyssa’s connectors are relatively
small and are around a millimeter thick, with a length and width similar
to a microUSB 3.0 connector. It seems that this technology takes
advantage of USB-IF’s media-agnostic USB standard, as in a demonstration
of a prototype SSD with Keyssa’s connector the SSD appeared to be a USB
drive on to a laptop with a pad for the SSD. Company representatives
stated that there will be products shipping with this connector this
year, and it should be interesting to see how this affects mobile
devices if this technology gains traction.
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