operating issues that have still to be resolved and with
which other operators are not in total agreement, femtocells
could be ready for a mass market in late 2008. His company,
which has deployed UMA with DMH, is currently looking
into femtocells as a service opportunity.
explains. "This is not right... these are operator products as
they use spectrum owned and managed by operators, and
we will rent them to users to retain control."
3G femtocell. There is no need to be locked into a single
function, single purpose RAN Gateway when a UMA-
based RAN Gateway offers the flexibility to support 2G
femtocells, as well as 2G/3G dual-mode Wi-Fi handsets.
FMC services (e.g. femtocell, DMH, terminal adaptor...).
However, once deployed, the operator can leverage the
infrastructure to offer a number of additional FMC services.
"Iu over IP" interface are singularly focused on support for
a single application: 3G femtocells.
of UMA a generic access network interface, not specific to
any one FMC service.
to leverage the cost and performance of IP and deliver all
circuit, packet and IMS applications to subscribers over
the public internet. As such, UMA is the ideal approach
upon which to base the RAN Gateway femtocell device-to-
core network connectivity standard.
services over the internet. And, at the end of the day, UMA
offers unmatched investment protection for femtocell
applications as well as future services.