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- From: rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp)
- Subject: Re: AT&T news release
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- Organization: Metaflow Technologies Inc.
- References: <1993Jan12.155103.16454@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:54:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.155103.16454@cis.ohio-state.edu>, bonk@elm.cis.ohio-state.edu (gregory j bonk) writes:
- |> I was sent this from a broadcast to AT&T employees.
- |> Thought you might be interested.....
- |>
- |> *** AT&T today announced a high-power, all-digital cordless phone
- . . .
- |> AT&T's spread-spectrum, frequency-hopping architecture, which is
- |> patent-pending, actually avoids interference by "hopping" the
- |> radio signal among 50 of the available 173 channels during a
- |> conversation.
-
- I've heard about frequency hopping and spread spectrum stuff for over a
- decade now. It sounds like a great idea, but I have never bothered,
- for some reason, to ask two basic questions:
-
- 1) How does it increase range without increasing effective radiated
- power? If it's simply a matter of raising the effective
- signal-to-noise ratio, how does it accomplish that?
-
- 2) How do the transmitter and receiver agree on the hopping sequence,
- and how do they synchronize?
-
- If this is too far off-topic (and I suspect that it is), accept my
- apologies and email explanations (or references, if you think I should
- be doing my own research) directly to me.
- --
-
- ...Russ Schnapp
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