[May 26, 2010] The Femto Forum: Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2010 Finalists Announced Tweet FLondon, UK, May 26, 2010 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Femto Forum,the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today announced the finalists for the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2010. The awards recognise outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the femtocell industry. The winners will be announced at a gala awards dinner on 23rd June 2010 at Femtocells World Summit in London. The awards were open to the whole industry and are judged independently of the Femto Forum by a panel of distinguished analysts, journalists and industry experts, chaired by Professor William Webb, Head of R&D at Ofcom. The awards attracted entries from vendors and operators from across the world and the full spectrum of the mobile value chain. The finalists for the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2010 are: Residential femtocell access point design and technology innovation Huawei - Huawei Home Media Centre Technicolor - TG872 Integrated Femtocell Ubiquisys - The G3-mini Femtocell from Ubiquisys/SerComm Greater femtocell (enterprise and other) design and technology innovation SpiderCloud - SpiderCloud wireless enterprise radio access network (E-RAN): solving network operators network capacity and in-building coverage problems Ubiquisys - Ubiquisys Enterprise Femto Net Solution Ubiquisys - Colo-Node HSPA Metro Femtocell Femtocell network element design and technology innovation NEC - Femto-Share Nokia Siemens Networks - The most compact and integrated Femto Gateway commercially available Tatara - Tatara Systems Convergence Server platform used in Sprint Nextels launch of the first 3G CDMA consumer and enterprise femtocell offering in North America Femtocell application concept Airvana - Airvanas Femto Family Tablet Argela - ADz-on + Femtocell/Home Gateway Solution Tatara - FemtoCloud Services Progress in commercial deployment NEC - Commercial progress picoChip - picoXcell femtocell SoC family Ubiquisys - Commercially deployed by SoftBank Mobile and SFR Commercial launch AT&T - AT&T 3G MicroCell National Deployment Sprint - Sprint Airave Vodafone - Vodafone Sure Signal Contribution to femtocell standards Airvana - Airvana Standards Team led by Doug Knisely, VP of technology Alcatel Lucent - Martin Warner- A catalyst in driving 3GPP femtocell specifications Nokia Siemens Networks - Company contribution to femtocell standards Enabling technology Airvana - UMTS Femtocell Beacon Continuous Computing & picoChip - The worlds first LTE femtocell reference design picoChip - picoXcell PC323 - The complete next generation femtocell solution Judges Choice Alcatel Lucent - Wilson Street: Alcatel-Lucents wirleless technology showcasing smallcells living and working with macrocells for the community of Wilson Street Ubiquisys - The Worlds First Sub-$100 Femtocell - the G3-mini Vodafone - Vodafone Sure Signal Award for Individual Contribution to the Femto Forum Gordon Mansfield, AT&T Mona Mustafa, Vodafone Clare Somerville, picoChip Joshua Adelson, Airvana Gibson Ang, GENBAND Fabio Chiussi, Airvana & Mark Walker, Ubiquisys "The past year since the inaugural femtocell industry awards has seen an enormous transformation in terms of deployments and technology. We now have numerous nationwide commercial deployments across Europe, North America and Asia and new products focusing on the enterprise, outdoors and LTE as well as major progress in standards and femtocell applications, said Simon Saunders, The Femto Forums chairman. This years awards recognise and reward this remarkable progress. I congratulate the finalists and look forward to the awards ceremony when the industry will come together and learn from its success stories. For more information on the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2010, please visit: http://www.femtoforum.org/awards2010/index.php About The Femto Forum Femtocells are low-power wireless access points that operate in licensed spectrum to connect standard mobile devices to a mobile operators network using residential DSL or cable broadband connections. The Femto Forum (www.femtoforum.org) has been set up to promote the wide-scale adoption of femtocells. It has over 120 members including over 55 operators representing 1,4 billion mobile subscribers 27% of the global total. The Forum supports and drives the adoption of industry wide standards and common architectures to enable the widespread adoption & deployment of femtocells by operators around the world. It also directs and implements a multi-faceted marketing campaign to raise the profile, drives technology development & deployment and promotes the potential of femto solutions among industry stakeholders, journalists, analysts, regulators, special interest groups, standards bodies and consumers. CONTACT: Oliver Chapman, The Femto Forum, Tel: +44 (0)7713 404 571 e-mail: [email protected] ((M2 Communications disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to [email protected]. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]