Femto Forum News

Femto Forum adopts field-proven management protocol to facilitate large-scale femtocell deployments

London, UK – 16th July 2008 – The Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today announces that its members have agreed to implement the Broadband Forum's TR-069 "CPE WAN Management Protocol", a worldwide standard for real-time management of customer premises equipment (CPE), as the basis for the management protocol for femtocells.

Following its definition in 2004, approximately 30 million devices now use this standard, making it robust and well-proven, with full interoperability. Management and provisioning of very high volumes of femtocells has been ...

NGMN Alliance and Femto Forum partner to bring femtocells to the next generation of mobile networks

Agreement to work towards a dramatically different approach to mobile network rollout including femtocells

London/Frankfurt – 26th June 2008 – The Femto Forum, the independent industry association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, and the NGMN Alliance, the group focused on the evolution to the next generation of mobile networks, will cooperate on how femtocells can benefit the architecture of next-generation mobile broadband networks such as WiMAX and LTE.

The two bodies will work together to ensure that next generation mobile networks can incorporate femtocells from the very beginning of t...