Ubiquisys raises US$19 investments to accelerate delivery of 3G/LTE/WiFi small sell hotspots

Ubiquisys, the developer of 3G and LTE intelligent small cells, today announced it has raised $19m in an oversubscribed round from new investors Mobile Internet Capital and Nissay Capital, together with existing investors including 5CCG/Sallfort Privatbank AG, Accel Partners, Advent Venture Partners, Atlas Venture and Yasuda. Ranked #1 by ABI Research in its Indoor Small Cells Vendor Matrix 2012, Ubiquisys will use the capital to generate further profitable growth and accelerate delivery of innovative tri-mode 3G/LTE/WiFi small cell hotspots.  \\virtual-strategy.com

ip.access shipped an LTE-only version of its new E-100 access point

First units already shipped to customers

Cambridge, Aug 14th 2012; press-release via LTE-depot: ip.access today confirmed that it had already shipped an LTE-only version of its new E-100 dual mode access point to five customers for laboratory and field trials. This is an important staging point in the process of moving towards full commercial deployments and represents the company’s first LTE product shipments.

Announcing the shipments, ip.access CEO Simon Brown said: “Customer interest has been strong in the E-100 and we have invested in accelerating the programme in order to meet that demand.

“Indeed, our commitment to increased R&D into understanding and delivering on all the end-to-end requirements of the developing small cell network layer – from access points to network gateways and management systems – is now paying dividends; gaining recognition and support from network operators, system integrators, our partners and the industry in general.”

The E-100 is a small cell Access Point targeted for use in enterprises and public indoor environments. The device will provide simultaneous 4G and 3G mobile phone signals with data speeds of up to 150 Mbps and 42 Mbps respectively and will also be able to support WiFi as an optional module.

ip.access founder and CTO Nick Johnson said: “Small cells will have a vital role to play in delivering LTE's promise of high-speed data for the mass-market and the E-100 will allow operators to quickly deploy that capacity exactly where it is needed.”
The E-100 will be integrated into ip.access' nanoConverge end-to-end small cell solution architecture, allowing operators to deploy the E-100 alongside the company's existing 3G small cells using the same gateways and network management system.

Last month, judges at the Small Cells Forum industry awards gave ip.access a special award for its Network Orchestration System small cell layer next generation management tool and its nanoConverge combined 3G/LTE network gateway.

\\ipaccess.com

Samsung to provide small cells for Sprint's 4G LTE network

Samsung announced it will help develop Sprint's small-cell infrastructure for use in Sprint's 4G LTE network and its 3G network improvements. Samsung's statement came several days after Sprint said Alcatel-Lucent would also be providing Sprint with small cell gear for similar purposes. Sprint has a massive multiyear Network Vision network-building intiative under way that will include the Samsung and Alcatel-Lucent products. Network Vision is expected to cost Sprint up to $5 billion. In the second quarter of 2012, Sprint had already spent $700 million on Network Vision. \\computerworld.com

LTE Revenues to Grow 8x by 2016

RAN LTE equipment market is forecast to grow at a compaund annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 50% over the next 5 years, according to a report by Dell'Oro Group. At the moment LTE is already generating more the 15% of total RAN revenues.

The total Mobile RAN market, macro and public access small cells, is expected to grow at a CAGR of two percent between 2011 and 2016. The public access small cell market is expected to generate significant revenues in the outer years of the forecast period and account for nine percent of all RAN revenues in 2016.

\\equities.com

Sprint is using small cells provided by Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent says it has 39 commercial agreements to deploy small cells. The contract with Speint is the first when operator has gone public with its use of the vendor's lightRadio metrocells.

    

     

Alcatel-Lucent Metro Cell Outdoor Family

The equipment is capable of supporting 2G, 3G, LTE and Wi-Fi, but "this particular contract is specfic to the 4G LTE network". The idea of metro cells use is to be able to increase coverage and capacity where it's needed. There is no information, which markets would recieve the new equipment.

\\wirelessweek.com

KT selects Cavium's platform for LTE Small Cell

KT (South Korea) has selected Cavium's OCTEON Fusion platform for the first stage of commercial deployment of LTE small cell.

Carriers can rapidly alleviate spectrum and capacity limitations, and expand their existing LTE macro cell based networks with an overlay of small cells using Cavium’s OCTEON Fusion “base station on a chip” hardware and software platform.

KT has great expertise and experience in LTE Cloud-RAN small cell technology ‘LTE WARP’, which won the LTE Awards of LTE World Summit 2012. The OCTEON Fusion processors combine OCTEON’s scalable L2-L7 multi-core technology, along with purpose-built, highly programmable L1 baseband DSP cores and extensive 3G/4G hardware accelerators, and front end (DFE) functionality in a single chip. These components are connected through a high performance interconnect to enable low-latency data processing between protocol layers. Designed to support 32 to 300+ users LTE/3G.

\\cavium.com

Director KT, Korea: “Small cells for LTE could be the key”

How important are small cells to your network roll-out plans?

Denny Kim, director of KT (S.Korea):

In high density areas LTE sites must be deployed extremely closely together so in that environment inter-cell interference will be a big issue to tackle. KT has deployed the LTE virtualization network technology to control the inter-cell interference in high density areas. Small cells for LTE could be the key to achieve the expected throughput performance. \telecoms.com