Femtocell--Your Own Base Station

If you are having coverage issues with to your wireless operator or Wi-Fi provider,now you can have your own base station--Femtocell.Femtocells are tiny base stations that go into homes or offices to improve voice and data coverage. Femtocells behave like small WiFi access points that communicate over IP broadband connections (e.g. DSL, UMA) to a gateway. The Femtocell creates the mobile user “home zone”. An operator has the opportunity to offer new services and tariffs designed for the “home zone”.They look pretty sleek, no bigger then a wireless router.



These tiny gadgets are packed with features like

-Core Network Emulator for testing of different access technologies, such as UTRAN and UMA
-Multi-RNC support
-Support of hybrid environments; concurrent support of UTRAN over ATM and Femtocell over IP
-End-to End voice and UDI video calls
-Load Test Capabilities for IuCS over IP and IuPS over IP
-Intersystem Handover allowing a mobile subscriber to move from the “public zone” to the ”home zone” during an ongoing conversation.