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To: P2V who wrote (3422)	6/25/1999 9:47:00 PM
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Ericy/Qcom Infrastructure Info ** "These battles over technical standards are ridiculous," says Keith Shank, director of strategic marketing at Ericsson Inc., a unit of Sweden's LM Ericsson. Shank says the Internet backbone is the most important thing. His group is working on technology that operates at the network level – the space between the handsets, if you will -- and "translates" calls from one standard to the next. Shank says hardware advances like that make standards a lot less important. "Our job is to make the standards invisible to the end user." he says. In a strange twist of fate, Shank is working with a lot of ex-Qualcommers. Under the March agreement, Qualcomm agreed to sell its CDMA infrastructure group to Ericsson. Now roughly 1,300 network engineers formerly employed by Qualcomm work in Shank's group -- laboring, ironically, to make CDMA invisible. cbs.marketwatch.com