re: GPRS PCCCH/PBCCH IoT
Thanks for the timely link to the TSG "GERAN Draft report Meeting #6, Naantali, Finland., August 27 to 31, 2001" that you posted on the Nokia board (repeated here):
3gpp.org
It appears that in the discussion the week preceding the formal meeting that the primary GSM/GPRS vendors (Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, Siemens, Lucent) and major carriers (AT&T Wireless, BT, Bouygues Telecom, Cingular Wireless, E-plus, Mobilkom Austria, Orange, Telia, TIM, Telefonica, Vodafone, Sonera) were in fact able to decide on a plan of action relative to interoperability testing of GPRS PCCCH/PBCCH that would insure vendor to vendor, and vendor to carrier cooperation and resulting in a minimum of disruption to commercial launches to "ensure fast and safe mass market take-up of GPRS".
Pertinent sections of the report are:
§ 6.6 Other General Aspects
and ...
§ 9. Postponed Items
The result of the 3GPP eforts will be a "focussed IoT program to ensure adequate testing of the GPRS PCCCH/PBCCH"
There will be no change to the current GPRS implementation, 'R97' (in other words no DCCM/A), definition of a recommended set of GPRS PCCCH/PBCCH features based on test capabilities and operator priorities will be quickly established, and an IoT program that will first verify the recommended set will result, all with the intention to verify the full PCCCH/PBCCH functionality, latest by the 'R99' implementation that will follow.
It will be interesting to see how WitSoundview, CSFB, UBS Warburg and other wireless resaearch teams that have been following the issue comment on same.
- Eric - |
