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To: Cooters who wrote (7334)	3/8/2000 11:10:00 PM
From: DWB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Cooters - - How far along is QCOM in being able to dynamically allocate channels between HDR and Voice? I worked with networking in the data center setting and saw a broad evolution of load balancing improvements over the years, both within the networking equipment itself and on the servers/mainframes generating the traffic. If Q can imbed this type of dynamic balancing between voice and data traffic as the network demands change, it might open up even more capacity opportunities. Your question jogged my memory. If I'm not mistaken, Dr. Jacobs mentioned this specifically as one of the benefits of the IS-95A/B to 1X MC/HDR to 3X MC migration path. Due to the ability to designate any 1.25 Mhz band for either data (HDR) or voice(1X MC) this gave carriers an ability to tailor their coverage over time to account for the fact that voice usage and data usage aren't necessarily similar during the day, or week. In a 5 Mhz band you could have 1 data and 3 voice carriers, or 2&2 if data traffic picked up at 8 AM, switch back to 3&1 during lunch time, and go back as needed. I got the distinct impression that QCOM considered this one of the BIG selling points, and to that end would think that they probably believe they can implement this architecture now (or at the worst very shortly). Thanks for the kick to the cranium... it just might shake something else loose before too much longer. DWB Q2.5K/Y2K+5