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Give the main features of WCDMA and how are they differentiate from CDMA 2000
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Main Features of WCDMA:

1) It supports high data rate transmission: 384 Kbps with wide area coverage, 2 Mbps with local coverage.

2) It has high service flexibility: which supports multiple parallel variable rate services on each connection.

3) It has both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes of operation.

4) It is built in support for future capacity and coverage enhancing technologies like adaptive antennas, advanced receiver structures, and transmitter diversity.

5) WCDMA supports inter frequency hand over and hand over to other systems, including hand over to GSM.

Comparison of cdma2000 and WCDMA based on main features:

Cdma2000 WCDMA
Core network ANSI-41 MAP GSM MAP
Channel bandwidth 1.25 MHz (1X), 3.75 MHz (3X) 5.0 MHz
Chip rate 1.2288 Mcps (1X), 3.68Mcps 3x 4.096 Mcps (DOCOMO),3.84 Mcps (UMTS)
Synchronized base station Yes No; but synchronized BS is Optional
Multi-carrier spreading option Yes, but in cdma2000 1X (direct spread) No (direct spread)
Modes of operation FDD FDD and TDD
Voice coder EVRC AMR
Packet-switched core network IETF based, PDSN/ AAA/HA/FA GPRS based, SGSN/ GGSN
Overhead Low (because of shared pilot,code Channel) High (because of non-shared,pilot code Channel)
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