Category: Telecom
- Published: 15 February 2009
Trillium Femtocell software now supports Iuh, RANAP User Adaptation, and Home NodeB Application Part; End-to-end 3G Femtocell demonstration showcased at company’s trade show booth
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona – February 16, 2009 – Continuous Computing®, the only company deploying uniquely architected systems comprised of telecom platforms and Trillium® software, today announced support for the 3GPP’s latest Release 8 Femtocell Access Point and Gateway standards. With its enhanced, market-leading Trillium Femtocell software portfolio, Continuous Computing offers all of the Trillium protocol software needed to support the new Home NodeB standards, including support for the Iuh reference point and underlying protocols RANAP User Adaptation (RUA) and Home NodeB Application Part (HNBAP) for both Femtocell Access Point and Femtocell Gateway Applications.
This announcement further establishes Continuous Computing’s leadership in femtocell software solutions. The company is currently working with 10 equipment manufacturers in North America, Europe, and Asia to design and develop femtocell access points and femtocell gateways. The new Trillium Iuh software is a critical upgrade to the market-leading Trillium Femtocell Access Point reference implementation and is also delivered within Continuous Computing’s Femtocell Gateway solutions.
“Continuous Computing is strategically focused on the femtocell market and has established an early lead in the femtocell software arena. Adding Iuh support to our solution allows our customers to quickly evolve to support the new standard,” said Manish Singh, vice president of product line management, Continuous Computing. “This latest enhancement to our Trillium Femtocell software further demonstrates our commitment to staying at the very forefront of femtocell development in order to help Network Equipment Providers and non-traditional residential device manufacturers enter the exciting femtocell market.”
The delivery of standards-compliant femtocell solutions gives operators more choice when looking at the different femtocell devices available, which will eventually reduce the cost of femtocells. The addition of new Iuh functionality in particular empowers Continuous Computing’s femtocell customers to rapidly comply with the new standard, thereby reducing time-to-market. Trillium Iuh builds upon the widely-deployed and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)-compliant Trillium protocols RANAP, IuUP, GTP-u, and RTP, which are basis of the Iu / IP architecture and are brought forward in the 3GPP Home NodeB standards. This approach allows Continuous Computing’s 10 existing femtocell customers to seamlessly migrate to support the new standard, while new Trillium Femtocell customers can start today with a standards-compliant implementation.
“We have been working with Continuous Computing for two years, developing complete femtocell solutions combining picoChip modems and Trillium Femtocell software which can be brought to market quickly,” said Rupert Baines, vice president of marketing, picoChip. “We are committed to our partnership with Continuous Computing and together support the industry’s latest standards, such as Iuh.”
Continuous Computing will showcase an end-to-end High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 3G Femtocell demonstration which includes video, data, and voice calls at Mobile World Congress, February 16 to 19 in Barcelona (Hall 1, Booth 1F04) and will also participate in the FemtoZone (Hall 2, Level 1, Booth B34). The FemtoZone will serve as the industry’s central information resource on femtocells at Mobile World Congress and will feature a presentation from Manish Singh, Continuous Computing’s vice president of product line management, entitled “Under the Hood: The Ten Most Important Steps to Building a Femtocell,” on Tuesday, February 17 at 2:30 pm. For more information about the FemtoZone visit http://www.femtoforum.org/femto.
