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<< Just found the time to listen to it. You still think Ryasavy's part of the webcast--the main course--was "good"? >>
Yes I do.
I rate the whitepaper "fair", but it is tough to cover frequency hopping and reuse patterns, power control, discontinuous transmission, reuse partitioning, AMR, DCFA, SAIC and EDGE (with some UMTS tossed in) in 20 pages, much less 100 pages, or in 15 minutes of talk time.
I rate the combo of the whitepaper, Rysavy's slides and presentation, Berner's slides and presentation, Clift's presentation with atrocious slides, and the Q&A despite the fact that it was kind of a poor man's Digevent.
I think Rysavy (they) should have stayed away from making claims that "GSM Matches 1xRTT voice capacity" and using Cingular's Comparison of TDMA, GSM, 1xRTT, and UMTS as a reference, but he was being paid by 3GAmerica's, and obviously they wanted to make that claim. All's fair when you have a Qualcomm, CDG precedent for that, I guess, but ain't no way 2/2.5G GSM Is come to come close to being as spectrally efficient as 1xRTT in the lifetime of either technology. UMTS v. 1xEV-DV a different unwritten story despite Qualcomm/CDG slides to the contrary that the faithful lap right up.
Overall the webcast was educational (as well as promotional) and it is probably time that the world knew about frequency hopping and reuse patterns, power control, discontinuous transmission, reuse partitioning, AMR, DCFA, SAIC and EDGE.
Yesterdays GSM is NOT todays GSM or tomorrow's GSM and IMJ may have to redo some slides starting with IS-95A is 5x GSM.
I thought it was hilarious that Perry CDG Never Sleeps LaHype had a press release out the door immediately following the webcast and it's only the start of a debate that will go on for some time.
- Eric - |
