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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eric L who wrote (6131)	1/13/2001 12:38:24 PM
From: Kent Rattey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196972

Eric, From what I can gather from their website, this is Point to Point routing architecture in which every device acts as a router. This is designed for RF Optimization and is supposed to be spectrally efficient. This was developed several years ago by the military for wireless battlefield applications. It was designed for pinpointing troop locations on the battlefield and similarly to Arpanet; Multi-path Optimization. BBN Technologies did a lot of work on this stuff years ago for the Government. The problem that was never solved is if you end up the only router/device between two or more communicating devices, they run your battery down communicating to each other, because you are their sole router. Maximum distance is around 5 miles between routers/devices. I am under NDA with another company that wants to commercialize the technology. However, they visualize it as a metropolitan technology and they don't plan on competing as a cellular operator. Kent

To: Eric L who wrote (6131)	1/13/2001 2:05:38 PM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196972

Advanced Communications Technologies SI has a board - Subject 29980

To: Eric L who wrote (6131)	1/13/2001 4:13:51 PM
From: RoseCampion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196972

The company believes its technology will by-pass 80% - 90% of Qualcomm's CDMA patents. Of course, it probably goes without saying among this group that even were this statement proved to be completely true (doesn't ACT-SpectruCell have a high-PR/low-product/IDCC-like history? can't remember...), unless they manage to bypass 100% of Q's patents, then Q's essential CDMA IPR is likely still blocking to any commercial CDMA implementation, and we will still receive our standard x% toll. Perhaps most importantly, successful patent filings may inhibit the global implementation of Qualcomms' WCDMA on an SDR platform. Anyone understand what they're trying to say here? That there patents in SDRs will trump Q's? Or just that their implementation would be cheaper than a Q SDR alternative? -Rose-