To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (9591 ) 3/3/2001 8:24:07 PM From: 49thMIMOMander Respond to of 34857 -features such as fast 800 Hz forward power control How fast is fast?? - new modulation and coding schemes Bless the idea of coherent reception, as in GSM and WCDMA, it was tough in the noncoherent times of rectifing tubes and big coils (coherent demodulation is still a difficult thing for 2de year telecom students) -Significant standby time improvements never too late to learn the needs of the end-user -fully backward compatible Tough thing when rebooting WinDos, luckily WinMe needs a floppy to boot DOS, NT and 2000 don't do it at all. (and Intel might finally fix the MSFT kernel??) -support for packet data Like GPRS??? -a full Internet protocol suite Wireless is kind of differanet than old US government sponsored arpanet. (why,o'why did AT&T not say thanks to that free gift??) - exceeds the ITU's 144 kbps requirement as EDGE, also demanding linear power amplifiers, not really much more than GPRS, ask Shannon (sorry, too late, ask Viterbi) -ARM7™ Bless the british RISC guys, the Commodore and Amiga. -64 forward link channels and 32 reverse link Running out of Welsh codes??? -four-fold increase in the number of simultaneous calls per channel card Count your channel cards... (ridiculous statement, except for poker players) -Viterbi and Turbo decoding Viterbi is a smart guy, like Shannon and Nyquist (although, just like CDMA, some russians were kind of earlier, but not the topic of this month of honouring, mourning Shannon, great-great-great guy) - is now sampling, expected any healthy male and female has done some sampling, production in the millions is the real test, not just expectations. Ilmarinen P.S. Liver damage?? probably some, even degenerating neuron networks, cannot but imagine the corridors of some companies, the lost time due to adversarial managerial hype. P.P.S. Another couple of greats for Shannon!