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To: Raymond who wrote (6901)	8/6/2000 12:11:45 PM
From: mightylakers	Respond to of 34857

Raymond. Probably a cheaper way to do it.But you will get a Ford Fiesta instead of a Mercedes. Yes you are exactly right about the money they gonna pay with the same feature. Also consider all the detour it has to go through. It should be a lot slower than the direct way. Face it Raymond, GPRS is a patch job for GSM, it is not the best fit into WCDMA. It is only for the purpose of keeping the who-knows-how-many-out-there will be built GPRS networks still usable that you add the GPRS capability into the 3G standard. Japan Telecom will buy SGSN,GGSN and WCDMA RAN and connect the IP traffic to internet via this nodes. I have to admit I need a little more info to look at this. Meanwhile are you sure that would be the way this rollout next year? Also SGSN and GGSN are for GPRS specific SNDCP. Do you mean that it has taken over as the only standard for packet Data protocol in WCDMA? Because otherwise there's no need for WCDMA packet data going through that route. My guess, note this is only my guess, that Japan is just want to add that GPRS capability into ite network. However its own WCDMA won't go this route.

To: Raymond who wrote (6901)	8/6/2000 12:50:12 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

I think somebody is trying to pull a fast one. I would ask him to clarify a bit. If anything, he's discussing internal workings of a NOK switch, which has little to do with the abstractions of 3G. In the "much simpler" world if IS-2000, much of that goes away. If he has any clue, he would know that. That's the basis of my comment about obfuscating things. The internal nomenclature and descriptions, as well as designs, are very much different when you are talking about one vendor's implementation over another. In the concepts of IS-95, all of this is abstracted, IS-2000 follows suit in the same manner. IS-95's Packet Data Protocol Stack (IS-707) is much more elegant, and easier to implement. It makes sense that the harmonized IS-2000 stack would implement IS-707's stack with subtle improvements. NTT's project may end up being proprietary, but not of much concern, they should be able to go compliant without much trouble, perhaps even with a simple software upgrade to the terminals and base stations. Remember, W-CDMA as an independent entity, is no more... :^) sfx