ip.access Oyster 3G Femto Technology Powers 500,000 Access Points

UK-based small cell technology developer and manufacturer ip.access is celebrating the fact that its Oyster 3G femto technology is powering more than 500,000 Access Points deployed live in homes, offices and mobile network hotspots worldwide.

ip.access' Oyster 3G system was introduced in 2007 as commercial femtocell solutions and this technology is used in femtocell and picocell deployments worldwide and has more than 60 operator partners for its 3G and 2G small cell technology.

This robust 3G technology is integral to the company’s full product line which includes C-class residential units, S-class Access Points for shops and small offices, and the E-Class enterprise picocells for larger offices and public locations.

Speaking on this occasion, Simon Brown, ip.access CEO said that the 3G small cell market is now really accelerating and that consumer femtocells, enterprise and retail picocells, public hot-spots and the move towards metro-zones on 3G and 4G networks are all driving the adoption of small cell technology.

“Nothing gives a bigger coverage and capacity boost – or delivers more from the available radio spectrum – than the move to small cell technology,” he said. “At ip.access, we are firmly in the vanguard of both the deployment and the development of small cell solutions.”

According to Infonetics Research, ip.access leads the market in terms of the number of femtocell units deployed and also the most high-profile customers of the ip.access small cell solutions are AT&T (News - Alert) and Cisco Systems. Cisco uses the ip.access technology in the 3G MicroCell solution it’s providing for AT&T, which has what ip.access calls the world’s largest consumer femtocell deployment.

“Our experience of mass market deployment and the ability to scale up product solutions give us an undoubted edge in the market,” said Brown. “We have learned, for example, that even apparently quite small changes – such as new software release on a smartphone handset – might require changes to femtocell radio parameters. With OysterCatcher, we can capture this information, process it and remotely fine tune the small cell to cope with any changes.

Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd  offers cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G.

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