ABSTRACT: Ubiquisys was founded in 2004 and over the last six years has become one of the leaders in the development and deployment of UMTS residential femto cells. The presentation will provide an overview of the company and the technical and business ecosystem/partnerships needed to bring this new and exciting technology to market. The presentation will go on to describe all the different market sectors that the 'Femto Engine' is being incorporated into and how (and why) it has impacted the Enterprise, Metro and Rural product space. The presentation will also include an overview of the key RRM functions and some RF test results from a recent evaluation of the Enterprise Grid at Network Norway.

SPEAKERS: Alan Carter received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa in the area of DSP applied to radio communications. He was the DSP/L1 Technology Group Leader at Grinel (ex Racal, now SAAB) in Pretoria and was part of small team who developed a range of wideband, frequency hopping, multi-mode HF/V/UHF man pack, vehicle and airborne military DSP based transceivers. He spent about four years at Bell Northern Research (BNR) in Ottawa, Canada, working in the area of single/multi-antenna AMPS/TDMA co-channel interference cancellation algorithms. After that, he was 5 years at Lucent/Bell Labs (Swindon/UK) as responsible for a multi-site (UK/US/Germany) WCDMA L1 Algorithms team developing solutions for their first and second generation UMTS baseband ASIC/DSP devices known as Taipan. Following two short years as a technical project manager at Agere (Mobile chipsets), he has spent the last four years at Ubiquisys as responsible for the Femto Cell RF systems engineering effort.

Steve Whittaker has over sixteen years of mobile telecoms experience which started at Siemens in Munich working on one of the very first GSM handsets. Since then, he has consulted for many blue-chip wireless companies including Panasonic, NEC, Qualcomm and Agere, specializing in physical layer software design and development for 3GPP applications. For the past four years, he has held the position of Wireless Systems Architect at Ubiquisys Ltd and is currently focused on SON and RRM applications for LTE. Steve holds a Masters degree in Electronics, Communication and Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Bradford in England.