Posted on April 27, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Rumours about NSN building femtocells
A report from Taiwan suggested that Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to make its own femtocells with a Taiwanese manufacturing partner. Up until now, NSN’s strategy has been to build a Femto Gateway that works with femtocell CPE from Airvana and others. NSN denied that it’s strategy is changing, saying “In [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Why do we need 4G femtocells?
This week’s LTE patent agreement amongst some of the major infrastructure suppliers has sparked some interest in 4G femtocells. LTE promises data rates of up to 120 Mbps per base station sector, shared between all users. In principle, LTE-enabled femtocells could offer the full speed to a single [...]
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Posted on April 13, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Dell’Oro femto forecast
Dell’Oro Group forecasts that shipments of femtocells will grow from 170,000 in 2008 to 27.4 million in 2012 (an amazing 356% CAGR). Nearly all these femtocells will be W-CDMA-based. Femto revenues will rise from nearly $50 million in 2008 to over $2.7 billion in 2012. However, the growth will initially [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Femtocells use residential broadband connections for backhaul. In many countries, the broadband link will be the bottleneck in the delivery of voice and data services to mobile handsets in the home.
Therefore it’s important that femtocells make the most efficient use of the bandwidth available on the IP link. In fact, this is much more important [...]
Filed under: Femtocell issues | Tagged: bandwidth efficiency, Femtocell, femtocells, IPsec, Iu, muxing, SRTP | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 6, 2008 by Andy Tiller
There was a lot of femto noise at CTIA this week in Las Vegas. With the exception of the ip.access / Sonus live demo, and one or two partnership announcements, most of the news was about CDMA femtocells…
Verizon to launch femtocells in 2008
“Our plans are to deploy femtocells in 2008,” said Verizon Wireless CTO, [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2008 by Andy Tiller
Take your mobile phone signal with you, wherever you go
By now just about everyone has caught onto the idea of femtocells – mini access points that create a family-sized 3G cell at home. But what happens when you leave your home and there’s still no mobile signal? Enter the “attocell” – a tiny phone [...]
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