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But what are all these companies actually doing in the Forum? Right now we are looking beyond initial launches over the next few months, which are already well-supported by a wide range of first-to-market products. We are addressing the issues which will be essential to translate from initial launches into mass-market adoption, particularly relating to issues which will drive economies of scale and encourage a multi-vendor ecosystem. These issues are many and varied, but they encompass the market, radio, network and regulatory issues which our working groups have been set up to deal with.

A good example is our recently-announced initiative on network integration.  Operators have delivered a very clear message to vendors that they need streamlining of the methods for connecting femtocells, producing ultimately fewer variants, more tightly focused on operator requirements. Vendors are sitting up straight and responding seriously to this. At our plenary meeting in Munich in March we will use our reference architecture to compare the various solutions, measure them up against the ‘hot topics’ which operators have identified for the medium term and encourage voluntary consensus in as many areas as possible.

The message we are consistently hearing about femtocells from operators, analysts and the market is: great service and business potential, superb timing, no technical show-stoppers – but lots of hard work needed to realise that potential and reflect the outcome in standards. The hard work is happening right now within the Forum, and I encourage you to join us to play a part in this seminal activity. 

Small is beautiful. 		Issue 2: February 2008
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Network and interoperability working group

by Chris Fenton, Telefonica O2

WG3 has made good progress towards initial deliverables for network and interoperability. At the Dallas plenary the sub-group agreed its mandate, activated working groups and bonded towards being an open sharing team.

A considerable focus was made on the reference architecture and a model was accepted as the first attempt and a call for all vendors to put their solution on the model and report back at the Munich plenary in March 2008.

Subgroups of WG3 worked on
- requirements
- management and liaison with broadband forum
- Interoperation
- OSS
- proposal for security
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