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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1034)6/22/2008 9:33:12 AM
From: waitwatchwander  Read Replies (1) of 1088
 
---> Another point was that OFDM, which has been on my radar for a decade now as a dire threat to QCOM, has barely scratched the surface in wide area networks, though it's going well in Wi-Fi.

I think you hit the nail on the head here ... OFDM mainly has uses at the ends of the communications spectrum (ie bulk backhaul/distribution and the much smaller localized situations). In the middle ground, where smarts needs to scale into fast actions, it fails to garner a following. In a similar vein, cdma/GSM is having a tough time at the localized end (ie femtocells) and, other than in secretive satelite transmissions like those used by NSA type folk, I've never really heard of cdma/tdma techniques used at the bulk carrier level.

You're likely right correlating the above situation with "head start" efforts but that is likely to become much less relevant as both camps mush together. Given the tidbits of future networking we're seeing coming out of Qualcomm (ie medical devices, nPhase, 802.11n, FLO) they are definitely looking into being one of the drivers of the mushing.

---> advantage of OFDM over CDMA is far less than the advantage of CDMA over GSM

Isn't this a bit like comparing grapefruits to kumquats and subsequently throwing in different types of oranges? How do you figure this ???
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