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Technology Stocks : Terayon - S CDMA player (TERN)
TERN 26.34+0.9%3:59 PM EST

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To: Bernard Levy who wrote (239)1/19/2000 10:47:00 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 1658
 
Bernard, one has to admit that DMT/OFDM are also context dependant,
to whit they are suitable where the transmission medium is highly
dispersive and/or frequency dependant but *linear*. As is the case
on twisted pair subscriber loops, which hardly behave like the proverbial
"50 ohm" transmission line, and in terrestrial mobile wireless,
where the signal is usually contaminated by multipath.

Cable isn't plagued much by these problems, though there are others
peculiar to that medium.

Spectral efficiency is a function of modulation/error coding rather than DMT
per se, and essentially DMT is just a bunch of numerically synthesized modems
running in parallel.

I wouldn't bet that Gilder isn't aware of this, though he may have passed
over a few details in his newsletters.
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