Femtocells and Fixed-Mobile Convergence

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Executive summary

1. Fixed-mobile convergence

• 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.1.1 Communication services worldwide
  • 1.1.2 FMC and FMS market trends
• 1.2 Communication network technology evolution
  • 1.2.1 Wireless technologies
  • 1.2.2 Fixed-line broadband technologies
• 1.3 Fixed-mobile convergence service approaches
  • 1.3.1 Home zone services
  • 1.3.2 UMA services
  • 1.3.3 Femtocells
• 1.4 Femtocell challenges
  • 1.4.1 Core network integration
  • 1.4.2 Femtocell interference issues
  • 1.4.3 Femtocell business models

2. Femtocell technology

• 2.1 Mobile network architecture
  • 2.1.1 Microcells
  • 2.1.2 Picocells
  • 2.1.3 Femtocells
• 2.2 Femtocell system architectures
  • 2.2.1 UMTS based architecture
  • 2.2.2 IMS based architecture
  • 2.2.3 UMA/GAN fixed mobile convergence
• 2.3 Standardisation
  • 2.3.1 3GPP
  • 2.3.2 Other standardisation bodies and organisations
• 2.4 Regulations

3. Femtocell deployments

• 3.1 Femtocells from an operator perspective
  • 3.1.1 The femtocell business case for mobile operators
  • 3.1.2 Operator strategies
• 3.2 Femtocells from a consumer perspective
  • 3.2.1 Benefits for the consumer
  • 3.2.2 Femtocell health aspects
• 3.3 Early trials and commercial offerings
  • 3.3.1 AT&T
  • 3.3.2 BT
  • 3.3.3 NTT DoCoMo
  • 3.3.4 Orange
  • 3.3.5 Softbank
  • 3.3.6 Sprint
  • 3.3.7 StarHub
  • 3.3.8 T-Mobile
  • 3.3.9 Telecom Italia
  • 3.3.10 Telefonica O2
  • 3.3.11 Telekom Austria
  • 3.3.12 TeliaSonera
  • 3.3.13 Verizon Wireless
  • 3.3.14 Vodafone

4. Vendor profiles

• 4.1 The femtocell value chain
• 4.2 Femtocell chipset vendors
  • 4.2.1 Percello
  • 4.2.2 picoChip
  • 4.2.3 Qualcomm
  • 4.2.4 Texas Instruments
• 4.3 Femtocell access point vendors
  • 4.3.1 Airvana
  • 4.3.2 AirWalk Communications
  • 4.3.3 Hay Systems
  • 4.3.4 ip.access
  • 4.3.5 Ubiquisys
• 4.4 FMC residential gateway vendors
  • 4.4.1 2Wire
  • 4.4.2 Netgear
  • 4.4.3 Pirelli Broadband Solutions
  • 4.4.4 Sagem Communications
  • 4.4.5 Thomson
• 4.5 Network gateway vendors and system integrators
  • 4.5.1 Alcatel-Lucent
  • 4.5.2 Ericsson
  • 4.5.3 Huawei
  • 4.5.4 Kineto Wireless
  • 4.5.5 Motorola
  • 4.5.6 NEC
  • 4.5.7 Nokia Siemens Networks
  • 4.5.8 Samsung
  • 4.5.9 Tatara Systems
  • 4.5.10 ZTE

5. Market forecasts and trends

• 5.1 Femtocell market trends
  • 5.1.1 Moving from trials to commercial deployments
  • 5.1.2 The role of femtocells
  • 5.1.3 The femtocell value chain
• 5.2 Femtocell market forecasts
  • 5.2.1 Femtocells and FMC in APAC
  • 5.2.2 Femtocells and FMC in Europe
  • 5.2.3 Femtocells and FMC in North America
  • 5.2.4 Femtocell shipments worldwide
• 5.3 Concluding remarks

Glossary

List of Figures

• Figure 1.1: Mobile subscribers by region (Worldwide Q4-2008)
• Figure 1.2: Fixed line broadband connections by region (Worldwide Q4-2008)
• Figure 1.3: Voice traffic (Worldwide 2000 - 2008)
• Figure 1.4: Wireless subscribers by standard (Worldwide Q4-2008)
• Figure 1.5: Theoretical peak data rates by wireless technology
• Figure 1.6: Theoretical peak data rates by fixed-line technology
• Figure 1.7: UMA and SIP over Wi-Fi FMC operators
• Figure 2.1: Examples of picocell and femtocell access points
• Figure 2.2: UMTS network architecture
• Figure 2.3: Iu-over-IP based architecture
• Figure 2.4: IMS based architecture
• Figure 2.5: 3GPP releases (2000-2009)
• Figure 3.1: Mobile data traffic in Swedish cellular networks (Sweden 2004 - 2008)
• Figure 4.1: Main femtocell solutions by vendor (August 2009)
• Figure 4.2: Overview of femtocell access point vendors (August 2009)
• Figure 4.3: Femtocell solution vendor ownerships (August 2009)
• Figure 5.1: Comparison of main telecom indicators (Q4-2008)
• Figure 5.2: Main telecom indicators in Asia Pacific (2008-201)
• Figure 5.3: Main telecom indicators in EU27+2 (2008-2014)
• Figure 5.4: Main telecom indicators in North America (2008-2014)
• Figure 5.5: Commercial femtocell shipments by region (2008-2014)
• Figure 5.6: Commercial femtocell shipments by air interface (Worldwide 2008-2014)
• Figure 5.7: Worldwide femtocell shipments by device type (2008-2014)
• Figure 5.8: Femtocell ASP and device revenues (2009-2014)