[opendtv] Re: Femtocells pose threat to voice-over-Wi-Fi, cellular basestation deployment

So you're saying that the 3G data capacity is separate from the voice data capacity? It seems to me that VoIP has much more overhead than CDMA or GMS voice, reducing total potential load capacity.
But if there are two separate services and never the twain shall meet, then I guess it makes sense to tap into unused 3G capacity for additional call traffic in a particular cell. 

I had always thought that the bits were interchangeable.

John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Femtocells pose threat to voice-over-Wi-Fi, cellular basestation deployment 



At 9:12 PM -0400 3/29/07, John Shutt wrote:
What possible advantage is there to making cell phone calls VoIP? CDMA and GMS are already digital, why bother with IP encapsulation? 

I'll answer your question with a question.
What happens when more than half of the bits on your digital network are IP data packets rather than legacy voice data (typically 7Kbps channels)? 

Does it make more sense to send everything as IP packets?

Regards
Craig


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