Tuesday, May 27, 2008
PicoChip's Femtocell a Mini Mobile Phone Base For Your Home
PicoChip announced this week that it has developed the world's first femtocell designs to allow phones using LTE to work inside the home.
The two designs are known as the PC8608 Home eNodeB and PC8618 eNodeB.
A femtocell is a miniature mobile phone base station for your home. This device provide you with enhanced mobile phone signal coverage (and data speeds) through your regular broadband internet connection.
When a femto owner makes a mobile phone call, their handset connects not via a mast or dish on a high building or Telstra tower, but via the internet. From there the call is routed to fixed or mobile telephone networks.
Credit - Ebiquity.umbc.edu
“Right now it turns out that when you are connected to your 3G network in the UK you are sharing a fixed amount of bandwidth with all the other users that are nearby,” says David Nowicki of mobile broadband technology firm Airvana.
Femtocell reduces the volume of traffic inceasing speed and efficiency. There's no need to load special software onto your mobile to use a femtocell. It is preloaded and it would adapt to all devices.
No invention stays as it is forever. Innovation drives the market. Thus people aren't just contented with having a mobile they want it to be a super performer. Femtocell technology makes mobile phones smarter with better browsers.It will also reduce costs for providers by routing calls across the customer’s broadband connection.
Pricing is unknown at this stage, although some industry experts are guessing it will be in the $250 to $300 range for basic units.Trends suggest that the femtocell market will grow from a relatively tiny $72 million in 2008 to over $1.8 billion in 2013, as end-user products begin to take off.
Source - PicoChip
The two designs are known as the PC8608 Home eNodeB and PC8618 eNodeB.
A femtocell is a miniature mobile phone base station for your home. This device provide you with enhanced mobile phone signal coverage (and data speeds) through your regular broadband internet connection.
When a femto owner makes a mobile phone call, their handset connects not via a mast or dish on a high building or Telstra tower, but via the internet. From there the call is routed to fixed or mobile telephone networks.
Credit - Ebiquity.umbc.edu
“Right now it turns out that when you are connected to your 3G network in the UK you are sharing a fixed amount of bandwidth with all the other users that are nearby,” says David Nowicki of mobile broadband technology firm Airvana.
Femtocell reduces the volume of traffic inceasing speed and efficiency. There's no need to load special software onto your mobile to use a femtocell. It is preloaded and it would adapt to all devices.
No invention stays as it is forever. Innovation drives the market. Thus people aren't just contented with having a mobile they want it to be a super performer. Femtocell technology makes mobile phones smarter with better browsers.It will also reduce costs for providers by routing calls across the customer’s broadband connection.
Pricing is unknown at this stage, although some industry experts are guessing it will be in the $250 to $300 range for basic units.Trends suggest that the femtocell market will grow from a relatively tiny $72 million in 2008 to over $1.8 billion in 2013, as end-user products begin to take off.
Source - PicoChip
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