Femtocell Solutions Forum '07

Chair’s Welcome and Introduction

• Understanding the key market drivers, the business case and the major deployment challenges
• Identifying the key players in the femtocell value chain
• Understanding why other players in the value chain are driving the deployment of femtocells
• Avoiding fragmentation: the importance of standardisation and common approaches
• Exploring the work done by the Femto Forum to promote femtocell deployment

• The need to challenge VoIP and VoWLAN by mobile operators
• Providing coverage and capacity in scale with subscriber demand
• What are the cost benefits of deploying femtocells?
• Exploring new service opportunities: what are the strategic options?

• Strategies for cost saving using femtocells
• Reducing the traffic demands on macro/micro-cellular networks with femtocells
• Impact of external interference on femtocell performance
• Deploying femtocells to optimise performance

• Practical lessons learned and consumer feedback from early rollouts
• Radio and networkperformance experience
• Manufacturing femtocells in volume
• Enabling premium service adoption

• What are the opportunities, drivers and threats for vendors and operators?
• Why do we need an alternative to further investment in 3G macrocell networks?
• Do people really want to use mobile data services at home?
• Do femtocells encourage the adoption of mobile data services?

• Discussing the need for femtocells
• What should the Femto Forum do for mass scale deployments of femtocells?
• Technological and regulatory challenges for femtocells
• Operator strategies and recommendations for femtocells
• Potential roadmap for femtocells in the European market

• Defining the business case for the migration to IMS
• Achieving the end-to-end cost and service advantages delivered by the all-IP approach
• Developing a SIP/IMS-enabled femtocell reference design to ease the integration of femtocells into a mobile operator’s network
• Enabling the significant advantages of an all-IP approach

• Analysing the requirements for femtocell core network integration
• Comparison of relative options for device to network integration
• Understand the advantages of a UMA-based solution
• Discuss the impact of standards in device-to-core network integration
• Explore UMA’s role in alternative ‘home zone’ services

• Understanding the general concept
• Exploring new approaches for deployment
• The state of the standards: what are the challenges?

• Finding the right balance: What needs to be standardized and what can be left to the market?
• Home Base Station standardisation activities at 3GPP
• Technical aspects: field upgradability, auto configuration, positioning, authentication,roaming
• Assessing the security risks of femtocells

• Overview and discussion on the value added services that can be offered via the femtocell (automatic podcast reloads, home presence services and personalised mobile TV)
• Making sense of value-added services: What is the proportion of VAS that is actually consumed at home?
• What users really want and where they want to experience the services?

• The importance of one device, one number, one voice mail box
• Why are femtocells an efficient solution to address the fixed mobile convergence market?
• Defining a compelling fixed-mobile convergence strategy based on femtocells

• FMS VS Femtocells: Strengths and weaknesses of two different approaches
• Analysing the impact of the “cost factor” in the femtocell space
• Addressing the femtocell ability to work with any handset
• The importance of “data on the move”” and the potential of femtocells for encouraging high data use
• Leveraging current public Wi-Fi network investments by adopting a dual-mode approach VS differentiating the offering the offering in highly competitive markets through femtocells
• Enabling a seamless user experience at home and on the move

• The femtocell "intrusion" in the broadband digital home use cases: fostering a smooth integration
• Quality of experience with home femtocells: anticipating and addressing users’ expectations
• Un-managed vs operator-managed services competing for attention and resources
• Addressing quality of service in quad-play usage scenarios
• Co-operating and not fighting with Wi-Fi based devices

• Helping the mobile operators to penetrate deeper into the digital home market
• How important is the home experience in the VAS proposition?
• How important is to support multiple users in a home environment?

• Addressing concerns of radio propagation due to frequency transmission on the macro-network (anti-hacking, firewalls)
• Establishing security for femtocell (anti-hacking, firewalls)
• Building flexibility into femtocells
• Giving room for potential growth in capacity
• Potential of Mobile TV service
• The implication of LTE

• Defining the femtocell ecosystem
• How do home gateway manufacturers fit into the value chain?
• Exploring Femtocell CPE options - 1-Box and 2-Box Solutions
• Case Study: Netgear's Femtocell CPE

• The challenge of improving QoS and improving quality of experience
• Providing quality for voice and data services in the home environment at a lower cost
• Guaranteeing seamless handover and making it automatic and invisible to the user
• Managing intentional and unintentional security threats
• Guaranteeing access control

• The challenge of minimising interference with the macro network and nearby femtocells
• How big of a problem is interference?
• What solutions can be put in place?

• How much of a threat is VoIP over home Wi-Fi for the mobile operator?
• How can mobile operators challenge Wi-Fi VOIP for dominance in the consumer FMC market?
• Femtocells VS Wi-Fi: Are they alternative, complimentary or competitive?
• Can we address effectively the public health and safety concerns associated with Wi-Fi and home base stations?

• How and why could femtocells alter the mobile landscape?
• Have femtocells the potential to play a significant disruptive role in fixed mobile convergence?
• Is now it time to fully embrace the Internet business model?