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To: marginmike who wrote (11345)	6/10/1998 8:17:00 AM
From: Raymond	Respond to of 152472

MarginMike! I quote "They have a bunch of idiots saying that the complexity of a mobile system lies in the network, not in the air interface. They obviously know NOTHING about digital systems" If you refer to me about knowing anything about digital systems I can just say that I know enough.If you sit and design base stations it's very easy to see the rest of the system as a black box with no functionalty just a connection point to the network.Another quote "The rest is typical network stuff with the exception of timing" .Typical quote from a hardware designer which knows nothing about how the network works.Pls go also back and listen to the quote from the Lucent guy which said in one of the earlier posts that the real challenges is on the network side./R

To: marginmike who wrote (11345)	6/10/1998 10:14:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 152472

Mike - They have a bunch of idiots saying that the complexity of a mobile system lies in the network, not in the air interface. It depends on your definition of complexity. If you mean technologically sophisticated, then it is probably true that you could consider the network substantially less complex than the air interface. However, if by 'complex' you mean 'lots of different pieces and fragile', then the networks are probably just as complex as the air interface. The main point here is that ETSI can probably screw up the network interface for CDMAOne just as easily as they can screw up the air interface, but Qualcomm probably has less recourse since it isn't as technologically sophisticated and they (QCOM) probably don't have as much IPR in this area. (whew! That's a lot of 'probablies'. I guess I'm feeling a little paranoid this morning.) Clark