Network Norway’s enterprise femtocell service is now live on their website.
Businesses recognise the productivity value of going mobile, but it only makes sense if the indoor signal quality is consistently good. Unfortunately, offices and industrial buildings are often made of signal-blocking materials like concrete, steel and tinted windows.
Femtocells solve this problem by providing a strong indoor signal. Their low price, simple installation and minimal running costs make them an affordable solution for even the smallest companies.
A few operators today are offering single femtocells to small companies, some with a slightly increased range over their residential cousins. But most company buildings are not a standard box shape and size. Instead, they are a variety of shapes and sizes, and involve a mix of building types: office, retail, warehouse, production area, loading bay etc. A truly flexible solution must combine the low cost of an individual femtocell with the flexibility to handle buildings of any shape and size.
Network Norway’s ‘Full Coverage’ service is the first to meet this challenge. In addition to a installing a single femtocell, several enterprise femtocells can be installed around larger premises, where they talk to each other over the corporate LAN to form a seamless mesh of coverage tailored to the shape of the building.
If the business grows into new space then it is simply a case of plugging in a few more femtocells. If one femtocell is switched-off, then its femto neighbours will adjust their coverage to compensate. And if everyone in the company is calling from one room, the femtocells will automatically spread the load between them. There’s no limit to the number of femtocells employed.
This clever technology is an example of a self-organising network, or SON. It is compelling because the complexity is invisible, making the deployment and user experience simple and robust. SON plays a central role in the next generation LTE networks, but Ubiquisys has developed it early for today’s 3G users. The Ubiquisys SON femtocells at Network Norway are supplied by NEC.
You can find out more about our SON technology for enterprises in these blog posts:
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