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Services provided through femtocells

Femtocell services

 

Femtocells are about far more than delivering great coverage to homes, offices and metro hotspots & rural backwaters. For example, femtocell applications can enable users to automatically synchronise their music collection on their mobile device with their home PC when a customer returns home or remotely control home appliances such as air conditioning when out of the house in a secure manner. This short video from the Femto Forum offers a taste of a wide range of femtocell service opportunities.
 

Femto Forum Chair Simon Saunders discussing importance of femtocells for LTE networks

Small Cell Forum Chair Simon Saunders on LTE 

Femtocells are important for LTE networks as they improve the operator business case, while also providing the best possible user experience. In this video recorded at 4G World 2010, Small Cell Forum Chair Simon Saunders describes how the Forum is working with the standards bodies to ensure that LTE femtocells will not be far behind the LTE macrocell rollout which is currently underway.
 
 
 
 

Femtocell address the challenge of mobile data upswing

Small cells address the challenge of mobile data upswing  

With more and more of us ramping up our mobile data usage, the challenge for operators is to keep pace with demand while keeping capex under control. In this interview Professor Simon Saunders discusses the role small cells can play in off-loading traffic from macro networks.

 
 
 
 
 

Amazon's connected homes intro to femtocells

Amazon's connected homes intro to femtocells

Paul Hochman fronts a strong series of technology primers associated with the connected home for Amazon. Here's his take on femtocell technology, which quite rightly makes a strong point of how femtocells significantly improve battery life for mobile users.

 
 
 
 

Introduction to femtocells standards

Working with ETSI to drive standards

This video provides an overview of the work being done by the Small Cell Forum and ETSI to develop femtocell standards which make the most of the technology and enjoy widespread industry support. This includes an overview of the state of small cell standards, the features they support, how the industry was marshalled to support them through plugfests as well as their future evolution.

 
 

What is a femtocell?

What is a femtocell?

This video provides an introduction to femtocells. It explains what femtocells are,  types of femtocell and how they work. From ThinkFemtocell.