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To: waverider who wrote (76081)	7/10/2000 10:01:35 AM
From: CRay33	Respond to of 152472

Interesting quote from Gilder regarding Q's CDMA technology: "The power control system, as I recall, has three layers--the first, which is described here, is a coarse automatic gain control which moves the power up and down 25 percent according to the needs of the base station. There are also two levels of more refined power regulation some 800 times a second. It is Qualcomm's mastery of power control that enabled the creation of High Data Rate (HDR), which is based on a weighted fair queuing algorithm which grants the user with the strongest signal a conditional preference in transmission. But power control is only one of Qualcomm's unique assets in doing CDMA. Most important will prove to be its experience in integrating all these CDMA functions in working systems. I think it is likely that Qualcomm will dominate the chip sets for both WCDMA and CDMA2000." ________________