In-home Tests Show Femtocell Advantage over Macro Network in Data Rates and Consistency
Airvana's radio frequency (RF) engineering team developed custom testing hardware and software specifically for this analysis and measured Airvana's HubBub femtocell performance in a variety of single family homes, townhouses, and apartments in urban, suburban and rural settings, to simulate the full-range of subscriber dwellings. Testing was run three times in each location to compare pure macro coverage, pure femtocell coverage and a combination of the two. Detailed results of the performance testing, which was conducted as part of a broader femtocell trial with a mobile operator, will be published in a white paper made available at Airvana's booth (8035) at CTIA Wireless 2009, taking place
While much of the discussion around femtocell benefits has focused on improved indoor coverage for voice services, Airvana's testing has demonstrated the significant benefits femtocells can bring to indoor data performance. Delivering improved coverage and performance for both voice and broadband data services is critical given statistics from Informa that show 36 percent of voice calling and 45 percent of mobile data usage happens within consumers' homes.
This case of realizing "deep coverage" in the home was also recently analyzed by the Signals Research Group (SRG) as part of a comprehensive business case study commissioned by the Femto Forum. SRG concluded that if an operator attempted to provide mobile broadband coverage indoors at 256 kbps uplink (approximately 2M-3Mbps downlink) in the 2100 MHz band on a statistically reliable basis they could spend in incremental capital three times what it would cost to deliver a similar experience via femtocells.
"Through the User Labs program, we have demonstrated empirically that our HubBub femtocell has the power to transform the indoor mobile experience," said
Airvana and its partners provide operators with a complete line of femtocell solutions including HubBub CDMA and UMTS femtocells, femtocell network gateways, Femtocell Service Manager, and a variety of integrated home gateway femtocell solutions.
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Airvana helps operators transform the mobile experience for users worldwide. The company's high-performance technology and products, from comprehensive femtocell solutions to core mobile network infrastructure, enable operators to deliver compelling and consistent broadband services to mobile subscribers, wherever they are. Airvana's products are deployed in 70 commercial networks on all six continents. The company is headquartered in
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