Gilderite, I'd like to think that I'm no man's fool when it comes to posting in public places. I know where my sweet spots are, and I know where my sweat spots are. I haven't any problems stating that some of the emerging wireless issues place me somewhere squarely in between these extreems, at this moment. To wit, I've posted the following:
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Can help be far behind?
I'm beginning to envisage a time when radio transmitters and terminals will be able to adapt to xyzFDMs, or whatever, on the fly. It seems a bit far fetched right now, admittedly, but I think that the larger service providers may demand it.
What I'm suggesting (may already exist in some ways?) is in many ways similar to what's happened in the VoIP arena, where gateways can now translate myriad compression algorithms on the fly, owing to the enabling characteristics and heavy dependencies on DSP technologies.
In an earlier time, these algorithms were viewed as a possible area that would cause a wide schism among vendors and service providers, alike. Today, it's not exactly a no brainer, but it's highly manageable and becoming less of an issue, as time goes by. Soon, VoIP algorithm translation issues will fade into the background as an historical anecdote. Will this happen here, in the wireless [Internet access] domain, as well, when consumer level purchasing of end point wireless provisions have been relegated to commodity status? I suppose the same question could be asked of cable operator CMTS and cable modem architectural considerations.
Regards, Frank Coluccio
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