Nokia Siemens Networks in 3G pactNokia Siemens Networks Friday announced a collaboration with ThomsonFemto cells are small cellular access points which provide enhanced coverage specifically in residential environments and enable operators to provide fixed-mobile convergence services and others such as IPTV.
The company said Thomson’s femto cell-enabled residential gateway coupled with the 3G Femto Home Access network solution from Nokia Siemens Networks - incorporating the new network element, the Femto Gateway, launched earlier this week - will allow operators to seamlessly deliver 3G multimedia services such as music downloads and video available in the home on any WCDMA 3G handset.
Trials of the 3G Femto Home Access solution including Thomson’s residential gateway will start at the beginning of 2008, and commercial deployments are planned for the third quarter of 2008.
To develop a 3G femto cell home access solution.
