Informa Telecoms & Media Shop - Femtocell Solutions Forum '07
 

Femtocell Solutions Forum '07

Extending the Network into the Home and Profiting from Indoor Voice and Data Usage

11th - 12th December 2007, Crowne Plaza, St James, London, UK

Workshop

Post-Conference Workshop

Thursday 13th December 2007

Taking Coverage Indoors with Femtocells:
A Comprehensive Workshop

Led by: Chris Cox, Marketing Manager, ip.access, UK

Objectives:

As basestations continue to become smaller and smaller, a growing number of operators are expanding indoor coverage by the deployment of tiny radios designed for subscriber home use. Popularly dubbed the “home base station,” femtocells are a low-cost, low-power radio solution that opens up the potential of new FMC services while boosting coverage & bandwidth. This workshop will cover the key strategic drivers for femtocells as well as the technical specifications & challenges of network implementation. It will include a live demonstration and the latest experience from real life trials. You will walk away with a clear and comprehensive understanding of the solution that ABI Research predicts will grow to 102 million users worldwide by 2011.


About Workshop Leader

Chris Cox, Marketing Manager, ip.access, UK

Chris joined ip.access as Marketing Manager in 2004 and is charged with positioning the company to become the world’s predominant supplier of inbuilding picocell and femtocell coverage and capacity solutions. He is actively engaged in developing the market propositions and business cases for picocell and femtocells with mobile operators. Before joining ip.access Chris was head of marketing for 3G Lab who developed, high quality user interfaces for mobile phones. Prior to 3G Lab Chris was head of marketing programmes at Geneva Technology a leading company in the global next generation billing systems market. Chris has over 20 years marketing experience in range of IT and electronics companies and holds an MA in Physics from the University of Cambridge.


Registration and Coffee

09.00

1. Introduction to Femtocells

  • Planning, implementing and optimizing your In-Building coverage
  • Understanding the commercial and technical parameters to design a system which meets operator’s budgetary expectation

2. Consumer Value Proposition of Femtocells

  • Superior coverage
  • Family in-home calling plans
  • Higher performance data services

3. Exploring the Femtocell Basestations

  • UMA Enabled Femtocells • SIP/IMS Enabled Femtocells
  • Tunnelling lub • Proprietary fRNC
  • Standard Iu based solutions

4. The Challenges for femtocell implementation with the macro network

  • Superior coverage • Family in-home calling plans
  • Higher performance data services

Coffee Break

11.00

5. The Challenges of using consumer broadband

  • IP Backhaul requirements • Managing QoS delivery
  • Authentication & encryption • Security & firewalls

6. The Challenges of Managing the Femtocells on Your Network

  • Managing millions of femtocell devices • User access control
  • Integration into OSS/BSS
7. Exploring the CPE options for femtocells
  • Making the femtocell a piece of consumer equipment
  • The stand alone end-user installed solution
  • Integrated gateways with WiFi
  • Building flexibility into femtocells for new service growth
8. Exploring the Business Case
  • CAPEX Benefits of Femtocells for the macro network
  • Opening up new revenue streams
  • Targeting the SOHO market
  • The first mover advantage

Close of Workshop

13.00