Thursday, June 17, 2010

Wimax Forum Publishes Femtocell Standard

The WiMAX Forum and the Femto Forum today announced the publication of the first WiMAX femtocell standard allowing vendors to start increasing consistent femtocells and allied network tools based on the IEEE 802.16e radio line and profiles. The WiMAX Forum aims to start certifying friendly products in early 2011 to guarantee efficient and effective interoperability between different vendors’ access points and core network equipment.

WiMAX femtocells cost-effectively boost coverage and power inside buildings and in small outdoor areas as well as sustaining advanced new services. The WiMAX Forum has been working with the Femto Forum since June 2009 to make sure that the entire femtocell and WiMAX ecosystems assist to enable the most efficient possible standard and discharge the full potential of both technologies.

The provision incorporates a safety scaffold that allows WiMAX networks to sustain a large number of access points via typical commercial IPSec based security gateways. This segment of specifications also contains simple Self Organizing Network (SON) capabilities to allow automatic design of large statistics of femtocells. Future revisions will promote the SON capabilities to regulate automatic interference management between femtocells and macro base stations.

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