Symmetricom's Manish Gupta on why a software-based approach is critical to providing synch and timing in small cells networks that will feature a variety of backhaul types. Note, Gupta's full job title is VP, Marketing and Business Development, Symmetricom.
NEC’s new small cell products
NEC brings new products to Small Cells World Summit 2012, including the result of a partnership with Spidercloud Wireless for in-building coverage that, Martin Guthrie says, is easier and quicker to instal and manage than rival DAS solutions.
Cisco’s femtocell IP-PBX integration
Cisco demonstrates bringing enterpise IP-PBX services to any handset using a femtocell. The aim is to enable operators to enhance their managed services play, and allo businesses to support IP-PBX services in a BYOD environment, without the need for phone clients.
(Note, the demo partner is Quortus, not Quorus as wrongly stated in the video).
The changing test requirements of LTE small cells
Ixia's test platform and UE simulator for LTE small cells.
Airspan’s picocell with integrated backhaul
LTE picocell underneath, switchbeam backhaul antenna on top. Mindspeed and Radisys inside, and IoT testing complete with major core network vendor, says Airspan's Peter Claydon.
Juni’s South Korean enterprise
With a background in WiMax and deployment with KT in Korea, Juni is bringing its enterprise-focussed LTE small cells to Europe.
The company behind SK Telecom’s LTE small cell rollout
"In Korea the LTE market is crazy…"
Contela is supporting SK Telecom's LTE rollout with public access small cells, having already deployed more than 10,000 public access data femtocells, making it one of the most advanced rollouts globally. The company has designed software that allows its products to be co-ordinated with Samsung's macro layer equipment and to co-ordinate resource management within the small cell layer.
"Now we're just doing this with Samsung only, but the plan is to expand to other vendors (NSN and Ericsson)," CMO Jang Ahn Kwon tells us. For more on how the industry can meet interference and co-ordination issues in the small cell layer, see our interview with ip.access' Nick Johnson.
Fujitsu’s combined LTE-WiFi small cell
Fujitsu shows off its combined LTE-WiFi small cell – ready to ship in September 2012.
Mobile Europe readers may remember this demo from a year ago from PicoChip (now Mindspeed Technologies) and Interdigital, showing the combination and management of WiFi and LTE radio.
Now Fujitsu has a product ready to roll in September 2012 that can intelligently select whether to use LTE or WiFi radio per service or application, or even combine the capacity of both for certain applications. They company's also considering a public access product combining 3G, LTE and WiFi.
When to deploy metro cells?
When do operators think they will move to deploy metro cells, and how are they planning their metro cell rollouts?
Keith Dyer hosts a debate with representatives from Everything Everywhere, Telefonica UK, Telecom Italia, Disruptive Analysis and Alcatel-Lucent that asks the question: "When to deploy metro cells?"
In Part Two we hear how the panel thinks WiFi plays in all this (they don't agree) and about the options for backhaul. Finally, each speaker gives their individual answer to the question, "When to deploy metro cells?"
Part One sees the panel define the metro cell terminology, look at where metro cell solutions are needed and define the product requirements. The speakers also get into the nitty gritty of how to deploy metro cells, taking into account site acquisition and commerical considerations, as well as logistical hurdles.
Telefonica to launch Firefox OS mobiles in 2013
Telefonica Digital said that it is securing global operator support for the development of the "Firefox mobile OS" that it announced at Mobile World Congress this year. The operator has also released a screenshot of a phone built on the OS and added that it would have Firefox OS devices on the market in Brazil in early 2013.
A statement from Telefonica Digital said that it has secured operator support from Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Telenor for the project, and that the first products featuring the OS would come from ZTE and TCL Communications, the company that owns the Alcatel brand for handsets.
The Firefox OS for mobile devices is built on Mozilla’s 'Boot to Gecko project' which Telefonica said "unlocks many of the current limitations of web development on mobile, by enabling HTML5 applications to access the underlying capabilities of a phone, previously only available to native applications".
Telefónica’s Digital unit joined forces with Mozilla earlier this year to develop a phone architecture that builds phone features as HTML5 applications with web APIs.
The aim is that mobile operators will be able to sidestep reliance on other OS to be able to offer rich experiences at a range of price points, including at the low end of the smartphone price range, helping to drive adoption across developing markets. It's not the first such effort, with previous operator-backed initiatives including the Linux-based initiative LiMo Foundation.
'The introduction of the open mobile OS continues the Mozilla mission to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web for users and developers. As billions of users are expected to come online for the first time in the coming years, it is important to deliver a compelling smartphone experience that anyone can use,' said Gary Kovacs, CEO, Mozilla. 'The large number of operators and manufacturers now supporting this effort will bring additional resources and diversity to our global offerings.'
