Posted on April 27, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Vodafone explores metro femto
Vodafone has been experimenting with outdoor deployment of LTE metro femtocells. The company’s head of new technologies and innovation Andy Dunkin says that the concept is strong, but requires a low cost solution for wireless backhaul at 50-100 Mbps.
Femtocells and the consumer electronics industry
Fierce Wireless wonders whether femtocells could bring the large [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Femto Forum & SRG publish comprehensive femtocell business case paper
The full business case white paper from Signals Research Group is now available on the Femto Forum website. It’s hard to sum up all 80 pages in a simple soundbite, but here’s how some of the telecoms press did it…
Telecoms.com says it “appears to be the [...]
Filed under: Market updates | Tagged: 3G MicroCell, Airvana, AT&T, business case, Femto Forum, Femtocell, femtocells, In-Stat, Iu-h, LTE, Motorola, Qualcomm, Signals Research Group, Sony, Toshiba, Verizon | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 13, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Femtocell standard published
The Femto Forum, 3GPP and the Broadband Forum have announced that the world’s first femtocell standard has been officially published by 3GPP. The new Iu-h standard covers network architecture, radio and interference aspects, provisioning and security, and forms part of 3GPP’s Release 8 specification. Femtocell management and provisioning are standardised via extensions to [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2009 by Andy Tiller
Cellcom picks Starent & AirWalk for CDMA femtocell deployment
Cellcom is planning to roll out CDMA femtocells to its enterprise customers in Wisconsin. Unlike Sprint and Verizon, both of whom use Samsung’s femtocell solution, Cellcom will use AirWalk’s recently announced EdgePoint PRO femtocell access point (which supports up to 28 simultaneous users) and Starent’s XT30 Femto [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2009 by Andy Tiller
In response to the Femto Forum’s “Greater Femto” initiative, operators are experimenting with a number of new concept designs aimed at taking femtocells outside the home and into offices and public areas.
Vodafone’s Teddy Graham has been a long-time advocate of the metro-femtocell, which can be attached to street furniture to improve local area coverage [...]
Filed under: Greater Femto | Tagged: 1st APRIL, Femtocell, femtocells, giga-femtocell, Greater Femto, ip.access, mega-femtocell, metro-femtocell, Singles Research Trio, Vodafone | 1 Comment »
