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To: elmatador who wrote (8675)	10/1/2000 12:49:14 PM
From: justone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

elmatator: Good point about HDSL for base stations; you are right, it isn't just a PBX/leased line strategy- this is a great market, since wireless is growing faster than even the internet. Do you know if there is any movement to use a cell or packet based transport technology from the base station to the switch, instead of, say, the GSM A-interface, for 3G? It would seem you can save bandwidth, since cellular voice is already compressed, by transporting it compressed all the was to the MSC. I know I was astounded to discover that Ericcson used 64 kbps links, instead of the 16 kbps actual voice, for transport from the BSC to the MSC- you can save a lot of money by supporting some type of compression, I thought. I'm falling behind in cellular standards, but I know at the higher levels they are working with VOIP committees at the IETF, except they are using high level signaling over ATM, not IP, it seems.