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CALIFORNIA, USA: The number of outdoor small cell backhaul connections is forecast by Infonetics to grow more than 100-fold from 2012 to 2016. Infoentics Research finds that a cumulative $5 billion will be spent worldwide on outdoor small cell backhaul equipment between 2012 and 2016. There is no silver bullet backhaul solution for all small cell deployment scenarios, as each depends on multiple variables, including location, form factor limitations, local regulations, available power and networ

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CALIFORNIA, USA: A majority of mobile operators and transport providers will have over 90 per cent of their cell sites connected with IP/Ethernet, by 2013, finds Infonetics Research in its Small Cell and LTE Backhaul Strategies report.

Ops deploy HSPA+ before LTE: SurveyCIOLThe survey also finds that half of respondents believe it is very important to start construction of their LTE network with macrocells first, followed by a mix of small cells (microcell, picocells, femtocells) as an augmentation to optimize coverage. ...and more »

Michael Howard, principal analyst and co-founder of Infonetics Research, said: "As operators refresh their 2G networks and transition to 3G, they almost universally adopt IP/Ethernet as the mobile backhaul solution to lower the costs of growing mobile data traffic, using IP as the base technology for 3G, LTE, and WiMAX networks."

Striking gold with mobile broadbandCIOLStarHub in Singapore built the first commercial HSPA+ network in the Asia Pacific region and the world's first commercial Femtocell network. ...

picochip unveils femtocell solutions roadmapCIOLCAMBRIDGE, UK: picochip, the fabless semiconductor company based in Bath, England, has announced its roadmap, which includes complete femtocell solutions, ...and more »

Percello to demonstrate PRC6500 chipsetsCIOLLONDON: Percello Ltd, the vendor of femtocell baseband chips, based in Ra'anana, Israel, is planning to demonstrate 16 simultaneous calls over its PRC6500 ...and more »

Femtocell interop testing by March 2010CIOLLONDON, UK: Come March next and the new multi-vendor UMTS femtocell equipment will go on inter-operability testing mode at the French location of Sophia ...and more »

Also, ip.access Ltd and Airvana claimed the second and third spots in the company's most recent evaluation of worldwide femtocell vendors. "Ubiquisys comes out on top of the vendor matrix yet again both in terms of innovation and implementation," ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Much has been said about femtocells in recent times.

Analog Devices, Inc., a provider in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, today introduced the ADF4602-1 transceiver for 3G femtocell base stations.

BANGALORE, INDIA: Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) has introduced the ADF4602-1 transceiver for 3G femtocell base stations that support UMTS (universal mobile ...

LONDON, UK: Much attention has been devoted to femtocells' potential to improve indoor cellular coverage. But an older technology, the picocell, has existed for about a decade.

... fixed mobile convergence gateways, femtocell-based gateways, wireless access points, security appliances and service delivery CPE platforms for carrier ...

FMAL announces Fujitsu mobile WiMAX base station SoC, an integrated, flexible device built using Fujitsu 65nm process technology.

NEW DELHI, INDIA: As with all technologies, some operators seek to optimise first-mover advantage and get to market early. Softbank now joins Sprint in this camp. However, in general we would advise operators to hold back on deploying femtocells until standards-based equipment becomes available, unless the need to be particularly disruptive in the market is their overarching market strategy. Until then Softbank's (and Sprint's) end-user devices will be saddled with uncompetitive pricing without

EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS: Swindon, UK-based femtocell vendor Ubiquisys is using JTAG Technologies' boundary-scan test solutions for volume production of ...

SAN JOSE, USA: CEVA Inc., a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, announced that fabless semiconductor Percello has licensed the CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP core for the development of advanced femtocell baseband chipsets. Femtocell access points are an emerging technology providing low-cost, fully integrated handset services for residential and small business environments. Percello's processor architecture leverages the powerful and fully programmab

MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: MIPS Technologies Inc., a leading provider of industry-standard architectures, processors and analog IP for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, announced that fabless semiconductor startup Percello licensed its 24Kc high-performance processor core for next-generation femtocell base station applications. Femtocells provide the voice and data services of a basestation but with the deployment simplicity of a WiFi access point. T