From the August 16, 2000 press release:
Currently ramping for production shipment, the MSM5000 solution gives operators up to twice the overall capacity over IS-95A and IS-95B systems by providing features such as fast 800 Hz forward power control and new modulation and coding schemes. Significant standby time improvements in MSM5000-based handsets will also be achieved through the use of the new Quick Paging Channel. The MSM5000 chipset and system software is fully backward compatible with existing IS-95A and IS-95B networks, providing a seamless migration path to 3G while maintaining existing wide-area coverage for all subscribers. The MSM5000 system software will also include support for packet data, a full Internet protocol suite and many other features.
The CSM5000 solution, compliant with IS-2000 1x, provides operators with up to twice the overall voice capacity over IS-95A and IS-95B systems. The CSM5000 solution exceeds the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU)144 kbps requirement for data rates in full wide-area mobility by enabling data rates of up to 307.2 kbps on both forward and reverse links. The CSM5000 chip integrates an ARM7™ microprocessor for reverse link processing and provides a PowerPC™ compatible synchronous interface. The flexible architecture of the CSM5000 solution provides resource mapping of up to 64 forward link channels and 32 reverse link channels and provides base station manufacturers with a four-fold increase in the number of simultaneous calls per channel card. In addition, the channel card power consumption per call is greatly reduced, enabling design of very compact base stations and picocells. Each channel element performs CDMA searching, CDMA modulation and demodulation, and Viterbi and Turbo decoding. The CSM5000 solution is now sampling, and production shipping is expected in the fourth calendar quarter of 2000.
qualcomm.com
Caxton
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