Monday, June 22, 2009

Telecom firms demo successful femtocell milestone -- Wireless Telecom -- InformationWeek

In a move that validates the progress of the femtocell wireless movement, three companies are conducting a working demonstration this week of the 3GPP Iuh standard, which is a key part of the femtocell community's standards drive.

The three firms presenting live demonstrations of the Iuh standard are Starent Networks, which is utilizing its ST40 platform, picoChip, which is supplying silicon and PHY software, and Continuous Computing, which is contributing its Trillium femtocell software. The Iuh interface resides between the 3G Home Node-B and 3G Home-node B Gateway. The demos, which the companies involved say are the first to validate the Iuh 3GPP standard, are being conducted at the Femtocells World Summit in London this week...