NYC events and cell phones

Allen Ethridge aethr at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 20 00:40:04 EDT 2001


>[Moderator's note: I was under the impression most base stations did
>the crypto in hardware, so the answer would be "no, no performance
>gain" for such equipment. Besides, the main concern would be open
>channels, not CPU load. Anyone know better? --Perry]

It's my understanding that functions like crypto find their way into a
DSP, at least for North American standards.  I'm also told that
performance is a major reason for not supporting encryption in CDMA systems.

-- 
Allen Ethridge
aethr at earthlink.net
972-758-1737
214-552-5890




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