18th June 2007
ip.access CTO Nick Johnson To Address CommunicAsia 2007 Summit on "Femtocells for Pure Cellular Fixed Mobile Convergence"
Key conference presentation to focus on approaches to the implementation of femtocells for pure cellular FMC
CAMBRIDGE, UK - June 18, 2007 - ip.access, the market leader in cellular picocell technologies, today announces that Chief Technology Officer Nick Johnson will deliver a key conference address at CommunicAsia 2007, the International Communications and Information Technology Exhibition & Conference (19th - 22nd June, Singapore Expo).
The presentation, entitled "Approaches to the Implementation of Femtocells for Pure Cellular Fixed Mobile Convergence", will be given at the Suntec Centre at 2:00pm on Tuesday 19th June, as part of the CommunicAsia 2007 Summit. The presentation will explore the merits of the four main current approaches - Iub/IP, Flat-SIP, Embedded GAN client and Standard-Iu - and consider the impact of the different implementation approaches on issues such as scalability, support for handover with the macro network, performance over residential grade broadband, security, and bandwidth utilisation.
Now in its 18th year, CommunicAsia is the region's foremost ICT exhibition and conference, gathering together more than 67,000 industry professionals and decision makers from over 100 countries, and 13,000 executives from policy makers, regulators, carriers, ISPs and service providers. Key technology areas to be addressed at the 2007 event include 3G/GPRS/HSPDA, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and Wi-Fi/WiMAX. ip.access will be exhibiting at the event (stand number 3M1-10).
As part of ip.access's industry speaking programme, CTO Nick Johnson will also deliver a presentation at the forthcoming International Conference on Home Access Points and Femtocells (3rd - 5th July 2007, Sheraton Skyline Hotel, London). Johnson will be presenting on Tuesday 3rd July at 14:45pm BST on the theme of "Network Interface Options for Home Access Points". This strategic conference and exhibition will bring together leading players from the operator, analyst, network vendor, software/subsystem and value-added service communities to discuss the implementation, deployment, security, pricing, management and business opportunities for this groundbreaking technology. For further information about the CommunicAsia 2007 and International Conference on Home Access Points and Femtocells events, please visit:
http://www.communicasia.com
http://www.avrenevents.com/femto2007/
About ip.access
Based in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd (www.ipaccess.com) is a leading manufacturer of cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. These solutions bring IP and cellular technologies together to drive down costs and increase coverage and capacity of mobile networks.
ABI Research ranks ip.access as the world’s number 1 picocell vendor; its nanoGSM® and nano3G™ picocell solutions provide 2G and 3G coverage and capacity for offices, shops and (using satellite backhaul) passenger aircraft, ships and remote rural areas. nanoGSM is the world’s most deployed picocell, with live installations in more than 50 networks around the world and growing.
ip.access is also the company behind the multi-award winning Oyster 3G™ femtocell technology, which dramatically improves the user experience for 3G services at home. Oyster 3G is the core femtocell technology in AT&T’s 3G MicroCell.
ip.access counts Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion, Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola Ventures among its shareholders.
Distributed on behalf of ip.access by NeonDrum
Nicky Davis
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nicky@neondrum.com
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