tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40499441050178046352011-09-07T17:23:54.743+01:00Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-4929685830663841592010-12-10T17:36:00.000Z2010-12-10T17:36:44.061Z

A couple of weeks ago at a conference in Thailand, Yoshihito Shimazaki, Deputy Division Head of the Mobile Solution Division at SoftBank Mobile in Japan, presented a revolutionary new satellite femtocell solution for rural coverage. You can see highlights of the presentation, plus photos of the deployed femtocells at [Ubiquisys | The Femtocell Blog]

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-40209823970766525602010-12-07T17:08:00.000Z2010-12-07T17:08:51.998Z

Until now, all deployed femtocells have been supplied as separate devices, even though femtocells integrated into home gateways have been available for some time. Now that SFR in France has announced a snap-on femtocell module as an accessory for its latest home gateway, it’s a good time to examine this new concept in femtocell design. View our infographic to get a better idea of exactly

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-87989188523546008262010-12-03T15:56:00.000Z2010-12-03T15:56:33.702Z

Unlike residential femtocells, which are now being rolled out across the world, enterprise femtocells are still the subject of much anticipation, mixed with confusion and misunderstanding. So here’s an attempt to shed some light on this new application for femtocell technology... [Read more at Ubiquisys | The Femtocell Blog]

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-17522951106114248502010-12-02T11:58:00.002Z2010-12-03T15:57:55.736Z

Last week the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones announced that since being hacked, he was turning off WiFi on his iPhone. This article not only illustrates the dangers of WiFi hotspots for unsuspecting users, it also explains the emerging use of femtocells for simple yet secure public hotspots. As Rory himself states..... [read more at Ubiquisys | The Femtocell Blog]

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-40321122558458879702010-11-19T11:00:00.000Z2010-11-19T11:00:37.269Z

 This week saw the great and the good of the Asian mobile industry gather in Hong Kong for Mobile Asia Congress 2010. At this year’s event femtocells were again a hot topic with SoftBank Mobile discussing their market-leading free femtocell offering and NEC announcing that it has a femtocell trial in progress in India. LTE was also a central topic at the show – with Hong Kong operator CSL

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-42574970237813716052010-11-02T11:43:00.000Z2010-11-02T11:43:50.251Z

We at Ubiquisys were delighted by Broadcom's announcement to acquire Percello, the UMTS femtocell System on a Chip (SoC) supplier.  Firstly it underwrites Percello's credibility by removing the concerns mobile operators have expressed over the supply chain aspects of boutique Private Equity backed SoC companies. Secondly, the capability Broadcom brings to the mix, particularly in the consumer

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-67903171313287985032010-10-08T12:03:00.001+01:002010-10-08T12:03:22.888+01:00

Ubiquisys retains its position as the leading femtocell access point vendor.ABI Research Femtocell Vendor Matrix 2010 (excerpt)View more documents from Ubiquisys.

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-89546080727098578862010-09-20T15:39:00.000+01:002010-09-20T15:39:47.800+01:00

Last week Airvana announced that it has discontinued its WCDMA (UMTS) femtocell development programme in order to focus on its CDMA products. Some might be surprised by this – after all, the WCDMA femtocell market is taking off right now, and most analysts forecast explosive growth over the next few years.  Personally, I wasn’t surprised.  It takes a huge amount of intellectual capital,

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-25580116787109875502010-07-15T13:15:00.000+01:002010-07-15T13:15:57.197+01:00

ComputerWorld - Femtocells held back by technical difficulties. For those of you who haven’t seen this article, it’s worth reading if just to see how badly informed the interviewee from Ericsson is.  He comments: "The big challenge around femto is partly the spectrum planning and use," Leins said. "As soon as you introduce a signal [to] noise ratio you start shrinking the cell size, which has

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-51442360795499515512010-05-27T15:44:00.000+01:002010-05-27T15:44:04.545+01:00

In a post on the problem with WiFi-based offload, Dean Bubley makes an interesting point: “If I walk 5 minutes from home to my local tube station, I need to switch off WiFi temporarily, if I actually want to use mobile data - otherwise I have a constant stream of pop-ups from the connection manager on-screen, and no reliable connection.It probably wouldn't help with a high density of femtocells

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-34634272160596222702010-05-14T11:50:00.002+01:002010-05-14T11:52:01.652+01:00

As I mentioned they would a little while ago, SoftBank began accepting orders for free femtocells this week. This in itself is a ground-breaking industry first. The operator, however, has gone one better by providing free ADSL connections too. Free really does change everything, especially the consumer proposition. Instead of selling an accessory to fix coverage problems (attractive only to a

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-74976743478163055402010-04-20T09:54:00.004+01:002010-04-20T14:43:39.482+01:00

This is the Ubi femtocell technology map that has been doing the rounds over the past week or so (thanks Zahid Ghadialy). Although the tube map format was just a bit of fun, it does neatly illustrate the common sense behind the Ubiquisys Femto-Engine system. Ubiquisys is the only femtocell company where the Software (see the blue Technology line and the orange Applications line on the map) is

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-37044567959451141682010-04-01T11:35:00.000+01:002010-04-01T11:35:49.534+01:00

The $100 wholesale price for femtocells has long been described as an industry milestone, because it enables operators to offer femtocells for free with existing services.  That’s why we took the unusual step of going public as soon as we had won our first contracts at sub-$100. But what effect will this have on the adoption of femtocells?  All of the current market forecasts are based on a

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-13261481442230908302010-03-29T16:01:00.000+01:002010-03-29T16:01:12.722+01:00

Yesterday, at an impromptu event commemorating the company's 30th anniversary, Japan's SoftBank announced that it would offer its customers free femtocells.  Registration for this new service will start in May. There has long been agreement in the industry that free offers are a pre-requisite for femtocells to hit mass market volumes.  It looks like SoftBank, a company with a strong reputation

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-62547725046325044052010-03-25T15:53:00.014Z2010-03-25T17:21:15.530Z

Ubiquisys G3-mini at the Femto Forum's Femtozone(residential femtocell, 8 calls, 14.4Mbps, 8cm tall, 4.5W power consumption)SFR and SoftBank G2 femtocellsUbiquisys self-organising residential femtocellsNetgear all-in-one gateway - femto, wifi, ADSL, VoIP(the tall black unit - features integrated Ubiquisys femto)Ubiquisys G3-Enterprise femtocell16 calls, 14.4Mbps - forms a self-organising network

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-26105134500614087612010-03-05T17:28:00.007Z2010-03-05T18:31:08.734Z

IBM has been demonstrating Ubiquisys femtocells at CeBIT this week, as part of its NGN "Smart Networks" convergence solution for enterprises.Ubiquisys is the sole provider of IMS femtocells, which have been commercially proven at innovative operator SoftBank in Japan.The Ubiquisys enterprise femtocell represents a new kind of solution for enterprises of all sizes. Instead of manual radio

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-45492156239754179302010-03-02T15:30:00.012Z2010-03-02T16:06:38.602Z

1. BBC 4x video streaming demo2. 2Wire HomePortal(R) with Ubi snap-in US femto module3. G3-mini - 8cm high, 8 calls, 14.4/5.7 Mbps, 4.5W power input4. SFR Home 3G (France)5. 16-call self-organising network (SON) femto (wall-mounted)6. Netgear all-in-one gateway - femto, wifi, ADSL, VoIP7. SoftBank (Japan)

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-59487909396262285882010-02-12T14:30:00.009Z2010-02-12T16:59:19.044Z

Great to see the lead we set in 2009 on small cell Self Organising Networks (SON) with Cognitive Radio now taking hold in the wider eco-system (Light Reading 11 Feb "MWC Preview: Femtos Go Macro").I’m sorry to break the news to AirHop and Continuous Computing but we at Ubiquisys already have this technology in commercially deployment for Enterprises, having been awarded Operator commercial

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-19700313613218348222010-02-03T09:18:00.006Z2010-02-03T09:28:02.688Z

It’s that time of year again. We’re just two weeks away from the start of this year’s Mobile World Congress and it’s shaping up to be a great one for Ubiquisys.I will be participating in a panel discussion, Long Term Revolution: Accelerating 4G Deployment with LTE Femtocells, on the Tuesday at 2:00pm, talking about how LTE femtocells can accelerate the deployment of 4G. We’ll also be speaking on

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-40196209485362047662010-01-25T12:27:00.004Z2010-01-25T13:03:18.537Z

Over the weekend BBC Click featured several innovations from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.They featured a demo by the BBC at the UKTI stand, using Ubiquisys femtocells.The demonstration showed how a Ubiquisys femtocell can stream different videos to multiple phones at the same time, something that has proved troublesome with wi-fi.You can see BBC Click here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-15745843342127189322009-12-23T10:06:00.008Z2009-12-23T19:04:22.532Z

Ubiquisys announced its Femto-Engine software femtocell last week. Since then I’ve had quite a few people ask me what’s the difference between a soft femtocell and a femtocell reference design.A femtocell reference design, as is currently offered by a few companies, comprises some of the basic hardware and software components that make up a femtocell. What you get are the basic software stack

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-7545387504173143252009-11-25T11:33:00.002Z2009-11-25T12:03:07.223Z

"French mobile operator SFR launched a 3G femtocell service today using petit base stations from Ubiquisys" writes Michelle Donegan in Unstrung.It was great to see such a professional launch, especially when it is combined with a variety of price plans for SFR customers.And the promotional video adds a new twist to the benefits of femtocells....

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-29315554922641884002009-10-08T14:24:00.006+01:002009-10-12T11:31:30.566+01:00

In his “Do you know where your femtocell is?” commentary on AT&T’s 3G Microcell rollout, Paul Callahan says that “GPS is fast becoming a requirement for femtocells” (Airvana FemtoHub, Oct 6). That’s certainly true in the US market, but the global picture is very different.For CDMA networks GPS is part of the system - it’s a pre-requisite. But one of the key reasons why CDMA failed to take off

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-758257267439998692009-09-30T15:57:00.006+01:002009-09-30T16:33:20.375+01:00

It’s great to see AT&T start marketing their 3G (WCDMA) femtocell, the 3G Microcell. Unlike the 2G femto offerings from Sprint and Verizon in the US, this not only promises a premium voice experience but also full speed 24/7 mobile broadband.Following the launches from SoftBank, StarHub and Vodafone, the AT&T Microcell is a clear signal that the femto market is taking off across the world.And on

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-55668698078956451502009-09-02T19:15:00.007+01:002009-09-02T19:29:35.560+01:00

Next Generation Networks (NGNs) featuring IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architectures have been steadily taking shape at many operators over several years. The justification and suitability of IMS, particularly for mobile operators, is still hotly debated.The simple reason for the debate is that everyone agrees the business case has to work, but every operator is starting from a different point

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-149040724710585562009-07-30T18:17:00.004+01:002009-07-30T18:37:58.004+01:00

Commercial femtocell launches in the US, in Japan and in the UK show that the market is really starting to take off. Others are in the pipeline. This is significant for the femtocell industry as moving technologies from lab trials to launch is a well known hurdle that many don’t make it over. So the future for femtocells is looking pretty promising right now.Coverage-challenged households and

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-11251693328216287682009-06-26T17:24:00.004+01:002009-06-29T13:48:04.954+01:00

My warmest congratulations at the Femtocell Industry Awards last week went out to NEC and SoftBank, mainly because both are part of an ecosystem that relies on Ubiquisys femtocells.NEC won the award for Progress in Commercial Deployments. This recognised NEC's strong traction in the market. NEC has secured an impressive number of commercial contracts and has many live trials underway with

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-91245117348687277422009-06-17T09:15:00.001+01:002009-06-17T09:19:38.407+01:00

Enterprise femtocells, forming a grid of self-organising coverage, are genuinely new. So it’s not surprising that they are often misunderstood.On one hand they offer the low cost and self-install simplicity of enterprise WiFi. Yet they also offer all the benefits of 3G cellular with massive data capacity. This is a heady combination, and promises to make in-building cellular affordable for

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-82495626874703017792009-06-05T09:35:00.008+01:002009-06-05T11:08:25.269+01:00

Femtocells are not just a new type of device, they change traditional technical boundaries and they open new commercial models for mobile.There have been some good introductions to femtocells, such as David Chambers' Femtocell Primer, but what has been missing is a comprehensive reference covering both technology and commercial aspects in detail.Enter the unambiguously-titled "Femtocells -

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-10787432334997984662009-06-04T10:46:00.005+01:002009-06-04T11:02:35.916+01:00

Kevin Fitchard asks some key questions about femtocells in his article in Telephony Online. He was commenting on how femtocells might be the answer to mobile networks reaching Shannon’s Limit of available capacity. Femtocells can easily provide the capacity relief, but with millions of them deployed, wouldn’t they “create a network planning and management nightmare”?These are the challenges that

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-8031008959787700432009-05-15T15:34:00.004+01:002009-05-15T17:00:35.018+01:00

Why did the announcement of Intrinsyc’s UX-Zone “chameleon” femto application generate so much interest? I think there are several reasons, and they point to the new ways we will use our mobile phones in the future:Touch-Screen Potential – Phones with large touch screens are a blank canvas for multiple experiences: home, mobile, work, retail, and so on. But until now it has been all about

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-58985192307887061802009-03-27T08:07:00.003Z2009-03-27T08:21:12.707Z

This week I spoke at the Femtocells Asia conference in Tokyo on the subject of business femtocells.Here are the main points:A grid of modular “Lego bricks” of coverage that can fit any business space and which can be easily expanded or remodelledSelf-organising capabilities that eliminate the need for expensive RF planners to do site surveys or network engineers change the macro network to

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-37761937802813933922009-03-24T03:18:00.002Z2009-03-24T10:47:17.937Z

I'm in Tokyo this week speaking at the Femtocells Asia conference.When I arrived, mobile operator SoftBank had set up a display to demonstrate Ubiquisys-made femtocells working with a range of their mobile phones.I took this (poor) picture because it captures an important moment.Why? Because this femtocell is the real thing:It's a commercial femtocell, not a vendor prototype - a boxed product

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-7628129455654433742009-03-13T17:13:00.001Z2009-03-13T17:56:50.917Z

So for the third year running the highly respected analyst firm ABI Research has rated Ubiquisys as the number one femtocell vendor in the world. This year we are in first place for both dimensions of the study: Innovation and Implementation. Well known firms like Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei and Samsung were on the list, as were smaller companies like ip.access and Airvana.This is not an accolade we

Will Franksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-54835150604799520002009-03-03T17:55:00.002Z2009-03-03T17:58:42.204Z

As many of you will be aware, late last year SoftBank Mobile was the world’s first operator to announce a mass-market commercial launch of 3G femtocells using our ZoneGate device and IMS infrastructure from NEC.Asia is currently a hotbed of femtocell activity with Singapore’s Starhub also recently announcing a commercial pilot deployment and a number of other operators having advanced initiatives

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-90248589595475993212009-03-01T20:27:00.002Z2009-03-04T12:00:31.339Z

I was so busy meeting Mobile Operators, partners and analysts in Barcelona that I didn’t get much of a chance to have a thorough look around. It has been fascinating however seeing all the marketing hype and Analyst views before and after the show. So I thought I’d give some down to earth views on common themes I experienced.Real Femtocell deployment issuesThere has been a clear change in

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-49129644238444908462009-02-07T19:24:00.006Z2009-02-08T15:22:22.210Z

For those who had wondered whether femtocells would ever happen, the proof is steadily emerging. We are finally begining to see the results of years of work in the background developing, testing and deploying the technology, and of course the creation of the service bundles that make it attractive to consumers. The US has been a hot bed of Femto activity with Sprint and Verizon launching 2G

Will Franksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-37108388422538012392009-01-27T18:12:00.009Z2009-06-04T13:51:09.439+01:00

Well the answer to this question comes from the basic definition of a femtocell. It's an obvious answer but it's not necessarily an obvious path to get there.A femtocell is a mass market device capable of being installed by the end user whether at home or in an office. So in an enterprise this could be the IT department, an IT reseller or one of the mobile operator's other sales channels. This

Will Franksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049944105017804635.post-84857794577833598582009-01-23T11:05:00.003Z2009-01-26T22:18:30.936Z

There has been a lot of debate recently about enterprise femtocells. What are they?Are they the larger cousins of consumer femtocells, only with more users and more power? But how many users and how much power? Or are they standard consumer femtocells, arranged in a self-managing grid? But what is a standard consumer femtocell?The problem is that this is a circular debate - there is no single

Keith Daynoreply@blogger.com