as scalability to support millions of endpoints."
market for femtocell devices and infrastructure, causing
fragmentation in the femtocell eco-system. As an existing,
commercially deployed technology, UMA provides a
natural rallying point for a common femtocell network
integration standard.
UMA has more than a three year head start over vendor-
specific standardization efforts.
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operators. While defining a method for transporting Iu
traffic over the public internet is an important first step,
there are many more additional requirements for a device-
to-core network connectivity interface to be sufficiently
robust to support large-scale commercial femtocell
deployments.
device-to-core network connectivity interface secure the
traffic.
and "plug and play" installed. Therefore, a thoughtful
and scalable procedure is required be in place to enable a
femtocell to power on and begin delivering services with
minimal network provisioning overhead. Upon femtocell
powering, a procedure must be defined for the femtocell
to identify its relative global location, determine the
appropriate RAN Gateway to which it should associate,
determine if the femtocell is allowed to offer service in its
current location, as well as register the femtocell with the
RAN Gateway in order to begin offering local coverage.
order to prevent service fraud.
individual handsets that come within range of a femtocell
must also be authorized to access mobile service via the
femtocell.
to-core network interface must include QoS mechanisms
to provide the best possible end user service experience.
for operators looking to deploy a femtocell service. The
industry is starting to
appreciate the three
year head start UMA
has over proprietary
approaches being
proposed for device-
to-core network
connectivity.
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