To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (22377 ) 7/6/2007 5:40:28 PM From: Rob S. Respond to The term femptocell is already being used to describe products announced by Alcatel, Nortel and others to extend and enhance 3G networks to allow them to serve as a local data a well as cellular voice network. WiMAX is taking steps to standardize the basic organization and methods, such as how control is orchestrated between the centralized service network and distributed granular cells or pods of cells. This will be an extremely active area of commercial development because the needs are so apparent and benefits are so easily demonstrated. At this point, femptocell is being demand driven for both 3G cellular and WiMAX deployments. This shifts from this being more a talking point with few examples and little sales momentum. It has already grown rapidly during the past several months to become a noticeable and rapidly growing part of cellular systems sales. And it will become much more important to WiMAX if for no other reason than the increased data densities.
