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mimoOn joins 'FEMTOZONE' at Mobile World Congress 2009
The FemtoZone will serve as the industry's central information point on femtocell markets and technologies at Mobile World Congress, featuring public presentations from global operators – including Orange, Softbank, T-Mobile & Vodafone - and a broad ecosystem of solution vendors.
Duisburg, 9 February 2009: mimoOn today announced it will be participating in the FemtoZone at Mobile World Congress 2009. The FemtoZone, which is hosted by the GSMA and the Femto Forum, will serve as a one-stop shop for all visitors interested in learning about the latest developments in the femtocell industry as it undergoes a pivotal year for deployment.
The FemtoZone (stand 2.1B34) will feature a daily schedule of public presentations from operators and vendors on the major opportunities and challenges facing the femtocell market. mimoOn will be making a presentation about The Next Generation of Femtocells on Monday February 16th at 3.15PM. mimoOn will also be displaying its LTE Physical Layer, Protocol Stack Layers, and Reference designs for Femtocells based on flexible and upgradeable Software Defined Radio platforms in the ecosystem product showcase in the FemtoZone as well as on its own stand 2.1D16.
“With mimoOn’s LTE software being integrated on multiple industry leading hardware platforms, the company is well positioned to serve leading operators who are targeting initial LTE femtocell rollouts in 2010,” stated Thomas Kaiser, CEO of mimoOn.
“Over the past year the femtocell industry has overcome major technical and business challenges paving the way in 2009 for operators to introduce commercial services. As such the Mobile World Congress is going to be a key event for operators to cement their consumer propositions to ensure their launches are as successful as possible,” said Professor Simon Saunders, Chairman of The Femto Forum.
“This year’s Mobile World Congress marks the beginning of the real acid test for femtocells. The FemtoZone will attempt to address the key issues, such as what is going to be the key driver for successful deployments and are there going to be further technical hurdles to be addressed before we see large scale deployment,” said Robindhra Mangtani, Director of the GSMA project on Femtocells.
More information on the FemtoZone, including the speaking program, is available at http://www.femtoforum.org/femtozone.html.
About The Femto Forum
Femtocells are low-power wireless access points that operate in licensed spectrum to connect standard mobile devices to a mobile operator’s network using residential DSL or cable broadband connections. The Femto Forum (www.femtoforum.org) has been set up to promote the wide-scale adoption of femtocells. The Forum will support and drive the adoption of industry wide standards and common architectures to enable the widespread adoption & deployment of femtocells by operators around the world. It will direct and implement a multi-faceted marketing campaign to raise the profile, drive technology development & deployment and to promote the potential of femto solutions among industry stakeholders, journalists, analysts, regulators, special interest groups, standards bodies and consumers.
About mimoOn
mimoOn GmbH is a pioneer in end-to-end software implementation and system design of advanced wireless communications solutions on multi-core DSP platforms.
The company’s scalable and modular 3GPP LTE software family “mi!LTESoft” for infrastructure and terminals allows equipment manufacturers the benefits of Software Defined Radio. mimoOn's pre-certified Physical Layer (PHY) and Protocol Stack (MAC, PDCP, RLC and RRC) software packages assure fast time to market, conformance to the latest release of the standards, ease of integration, and design to the lowest BOM. Due to the strong background of the mimoOn team at tier 1 mobile phone manufacturers and the company’s ongoing research at leading-edge academic institutions, mimoOn is able to provide innovative solutions to the industry. The company has been listed as one of Germany’s most promising High-Tech companies.