Small Cells

Mobile Experts has interviewed more than 26 different mobile operators around the world, to gain a thorough understanding of demand for Heterogeneous Networks. It's clear that small cells will be one of the primary ways that mobile operators cover mobile data.

Microcells: Will grow with cell splitting

Picocells: A wide variety are coming to market, still using traditional (Iub) interfaces

Femtocells: The Iuh and IMS back end and SoC baseband processing will be applied to a large range of power levels....making the term "femtocell" inaccurate for many of them. Whatever you call them, we predict more usage by network operators than by end users themselves.

DAS: Indoor and Outdoor DAS systems will not go away; this is still the right answer for multimode coverage of an enterprise

Repeaters: Not usually a good idea from a performance point of view...but there is a surprising consumer segment which is growing and there are some interesting new products out there

Relays: This is a gimmick which is not likely to grow much.

Check out our detailed forecast on these topics: http://mobile-experts.net/product_info.php?products_id=41