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September 02, 2007
Femtocells
- Feedback on FMC
At the last few VON's our FMC tracks were very well attended. In part this was thanks to the excellent help from Alan Duric of Telio and perhaps it was in keeping with the fact that VON is a destination event that attracts the world.
Running the conference as a spin off seems to have come at interesting time.
In organizing the event, we got a lot of feedback that FMC had a specific meaning associated only with European deployments.
Mind you this was from the folks selling FMC to Europe
One suggestion that was made is that FMC was a misnomer in the end everything will be wireless.
Another perspective given was that FMC is the migration of the infrastructure for Unified Communication
One new area that is becoming a hot topic is Femtocells.
Femtocells back haul wireless calls to your wireless provider. In the US T-Mobile is offering this alternative.
To me this looks like an ATA for Wireless.
It also looks like a next generation of Jeff's CellSocket. [It's amazing how long it takes for some things to come into vogue.]
For those interested we are going to have a ½ day tutorial on FemtoCells with a few panels on the subject on November 1st.
For those wishing to continue the dialogue on FMC I am experimenting with a social network on Ning that you can get to by the url http://pulcom.ning.com. Feel free to join us.
Posted by carl at September 2, 2007 02:12 AM