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June 17, 2009
Starent Networks, picoChip and Continuous Computing to Demonstrate 3GPP Standard Iuh Femtocell Interoperability
TMCnet Contributor Femtocells (News - Alert), also known as wireless cell sites, provide an opportunity for enterprises and residential users to benefit from extended coverage for improved indoor quality of experience, cost savings for data usage as well as next generation multimedia services.
One of the impediments in femtocell deployment is lack of standards. Standardization will allow operators to deploy femtocell and network equipment in a multi-vendor environment, thereby opening up competition, accelerating commercial deployments and lowering costs.
Achieving a milestone on the route to standardization, three industry providers: Starent Networks, picoChip and Continuous Computing (News - Alert), are demonstrating the new 3GPP Iuh Femtocell standard during a live demonstration of the 3GPP Release 8 Iuh interface between the 3G Home Node-B (HNB) and 3G Home Node-B Gateway (HNB-GW).
“Interoperability and standards compliance are crucial to the success of femtocell technology, and are important aims for members of the Femto Forum (News - Alert),” said Simon Saunders, chairman of the Femto Forum.
The Iuh specification is a key component of an accelerated standards definition process undertaken by the femtocell community over the last 18 months. Iuh is important because it helps to solve the problem of how a very large number of femtocells can communicate back into an operator’s network, and on to the global communications infrastructure.
At the Iuh interoperability demonstration, Starent Networks will showcase its ST40 platform supporting 3G Home Node B Gateway, while picoChip will demonstrate its picoXcell femtocell silicon and PHY software for 3G Home Node B and Continuous Computing will demonstrate Trillium femtocell software for 3G Home Node B.
“The Starent Networks, picoChip and Continuous Computing Iuh interoperability demonstration is an important milestone,” said Aditya Kaul, senior analyst, mobile networks at ABI Research (News - Alert).
Kaul noted that a true end-to-end open interoperability is a necessary condition for successful mass market adoption of femtocell technology. Interoperability at such an early stage in the standardization process is a significant achievement, which indicates the level of commitment that the femtocell ecosystem has in working together, ultimately driving operator confidence in the technology.
In another major development, The Femto Forum and WiMAX Forum (News - Alert) announced a partnership to ramp up development of femtocells for mobile Wi-Fi networks. The two groups are working to create WiMAX Femtocell Access Point specifications to address topics including end-to-end QoS, provisioning, network entry and authentication, power optimization, and mobility management, and more.
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page. Edited by Stefania Viscusi WiMAX FEATURED WHITE PAPERSWiMAX FEATURED POD CASTWiMAX BLOGSApril 28, 2009
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