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Femtocells

Continuous Computing has a deep understanding of Femtocells and the key necessity fornetwork equipment providers to deliver Femtocell Access Point (Home NodeB and Home

eNodeB) devices and Femtocell Gateway (NodeB and eNodeB) infrastructure quickly and cost-effectively.

Femtocells are strategic for Continuous Computing; we have 23 Femtocell wins.

We invested early (and heavily) in Trillium software and ATCA platforms to deliverdeployment-ready Femtocell Access Point reference platforms and FlexTCA platforms that

support Femtocell Gateway applications.

Whats more, the thought leaders within our engineering and product line management teamshave written extensively about the specific requirements of Femtocells:

y LTE Femtocell Roadmap: From Concept to Realityy Local IP Access via Home Node By Iuh: A Protocol Solution to Scale Femtocells for the Mass Markety CPE WAN Management Protocol and Femto Access Point Managementy Femtocells: Spectrum Efficiency Improvedy Top Ten Challenges to Femtocell Deployment, Part I & Part IIy Integrating Femtocells with Existing Wireless Infrastructurey Mass Femtocell Deployment and the RF Environmenty Femtocell Network Architecture and Signaling Protocol Options

Femtocell Diagrams

These diagrams illustrate how Trillium protocols, system software and ATCA hardware may be

combined to create deployment-ready Femtocell solutions:


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To illustrate our system-level approach to addressing Femtocell key requirements, lets drilldown a layer.

Femtocell Access Point (FAP)

An average consumer spends 50 to 60% of his or her time in an indoor environment, and 70% ofwireless calls originate and terminate indoors. But, many subscribers are frustrated by bad

coverage and poor data rates within their homes and/or offices.

What to do? Femtocells.

A femtocell is a small wireless base station that resides in the consumers home or office and

transmits at very low power. Femtocells use an IP broadband connection (e.g., cable, DSL, fiber)for backhaul.

Femtocells eliminate the need for dual-mode handsets as virtually any existing wireless handset

should seamlessly work with a femtocell offered by the carrier.

Furthermore, femtocells not only provide excellent indoor coverage, but also free up capacity inthe macro-cellular network. In other words, indoor subscribers cell phone traffic is parked on a

femtocell as opposed to on a macrocell.

Femtocell Gateway (FGW)

A Femtocell Gateway aggregates femtocell access point traffic backhauled over fixed linebroadband links such as cable modem, DSL or fiber. The Femtocell Gateway application routes

traffic according to service type: voice to the IuCS interface of the mobile core network andpacket data to the IuPS interface. In addition, traffic destined for the Internet may be off-loaded

at the FGW to minimize impact on the wireless core network.

A Femtocell Gateway system solution would typically include control plane and forwarding

applications as core modules. A customer might also equip the system with Deep PacketInspection (DPI) capabilities to support policy enforcement as well as a security module to meetCommunications Assistance forLaw Enforcement Act (CALEA) requirements related to the

Internet offload function (country-specific requirements).

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Integrated Platform Advantages

y Scalability from 20K-500K+ femtocell access pointsy Common software across FAP and femto gatewayy Iuh architecture approved by Femto Forumy Supports IMS-based SIP Femtocell Gateway versiony Integrated security including IPsec & TR-069 support

BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH US

y Single point of contact & accountabilityy Reduced development time & costsy Reduced project risk & complexityy Simplified vendor & supply chain managementy Allows in-house resources to focus on value-add

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