Qualcomm Enters The Femtocell Business
By PJ Louis
MobileIN.com Perspective
Qualcomm Enters The Femtocell Business
By PJ Louis
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Several years ago, Qualcomm had been hawking a base station it called the smart base station. By today’s standards of intelligent network devices, that smart base station is a primitive device. However, the point I am making is that Qualcomm has had a lot of experience in embedding intelligence into base stations. If Qualcomm is creating a femtocell chip, I would say that femtocells just climbed to the top of my watch list. In order to mine the value of the femtocell four things need to happen: - Facilitate interference reduction - Support multiple wireless technologies - Support dynamic frequency channel management - Support inter-femtocell communications – this is about improving access control and enabling an island of femtocells in a closed environment (like a corporate park or college campus) to act as its own network. This requires deeply embedded base station intelligence. Qualcomm will obviously create new IP for itself. In my opinion Qualcomm will use its femtocell intellectual property to support 4G implementations. It is a very real possibility that Qualcomm’s expertise in intelligent base stations will enable Qualcomm to become a leader in 4G wireless. Both WiMAX and LTE (long term evolution) will likely be beneficiaries of any Qualcomm femtocell technology. Qualcomm owns a group of OFDMA patents that support WiMAX. Qualcomm owns a group of UMTS patents that support LTE. Put two and two together. Qualcomm needs to add to its patent portfolio.
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