Panasonic Holdings’ Nessum,*1 enabling wired and wireless hybrid communication, approved as new international standard IEEE 1901c

Osaka, Japan – Panasonic Holdings Corporation (PHD) has developed a technology that enables communication over multiple mediums based on the Wavelet orthogonal frequency division multiplexing^*2 (OFDM) method and after recent deliberation, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standards Association^*3 Board of Directors approved this technology as the new IEEE 1901c^*4 standard. This standard allows the same modulation and demodulation method to be used in a variety of communication mediums (including wired, wireless, and underwater)^*5 and is intended to contribute as one of the communication means to bring about an IoT society. By licensing semiconductor IP cores that comply with this standard to semiconductor companies, PHD aims to accelerate the dissemination and deployment of semiconductor IP cores in the global market.