IS-95 CDMA is an air interface standard that uses code division multiple access (CDMA). It employs various techniques to improve system capacity and performance, including bandwidth recycling, power control, soft handoffs, diversity combining, and variable rate vocoding. Key aspects of IS-95 include the use of quadrature phase shift keying modulation at a 1.2288 Mcps chip rate, forward error correction coding, and multiple logical channels (pilot, sync, paging, traffic) defined using orthogonal Walsh codes.