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To: Rob S. who wrote (22371)	7/6/2007 2:42:55 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

That was some nice, progressive development in your reply, Rob. Thanks. You answered a number of questions just at about the same time they came to mind, i.e., while I was reading through your post. In another discussion I'm having elsewhere the prospect of free-form wireless within the first square mile of one's domicile came up. A tie-in to the cell hierarchy (femto/pico/etc.) would seem fitting, although the actual protocol to be used there is still up in the air (pun intended). While femtocells may be akin to "dumb terminals", I would imagine that most of them at a minimum adhere to clocking and protocol constraints. Thinking aloud for a moment, I question if all micro, pico, femto designs descend from the Ethernet tree, thinking that some might also accommodate other protocols, such as UWB, BlueTooth, etc., supported both by commercial service providers, and, alternatively, directly by end users, themselves. I think you can sense where I'm coming from here, i.e., femtocells used for residential and community networks that are not dependent on commercial service providers, but are deployed and configured by end users or their agents, instead. -------