Small cell base stations –- femtocells, picocells and microcells –-...
Small cell base stations -- femtocells, picocells and microcells -- will have a large role in 4G deployment strategy, research firm In-Stat said. “A new class of base station, the compact base station, will enable pico and micro base stations…
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to be smaller, cheaper and more power-efficient than ever,” said analyst Allen Nogee. Compact devices like indoor picocells and microcells have been around for years but are finding new roles, he said. Others, like enterprise femtocells and outdoor metropolitan picocells, are a new class of base station made possible only in the past year because of semiconductors developed by companies like Freescale, Qualcomm, Percello, Design Art Networks and PicoChip, he said. In-Stat forecast that annual femtocell shipments will reach 31.8 million by 2014. By that year, several million metropolitan picocells will be shipped to operators around the world, it said.