Operators deploying long term evolution (LTE (News - Alert)) are also implementing small cells to boost traffic and improve coverage capacity. Small cells play an important part in LTE rollout as much of the traffic load is seen indoors. This robust offering can fully support inference management and carrier aggregation features such as enhanced inter-cell interference coordination.

A recent survey conducted by SpiderCloud Wireless, a provider of small cell Enterprise Radio Access Network (E-RAN) systems, substantiates the importance of femtocells. A large percent of IT decision makers who participated in the survey revealed that their businesses have had indoor mobile coverage and/or capacity problems with their mobile operators in the past.

Companies specializing in femtocell deployments are devising strategies to benefit from the growing femtocell deployment opportunities primarily driven by the rise in 4G/LTE technologies. mimoOn, an LTE software vendor for small cells and terminals, is one of them. It has recently formed a partnership with TEKTELIC Communications, a designer of 3G and 4G small cell base stations.

TEKTELIC Communications powers TEKTELIC 2220 LTE micro eNodeB, a fully featured small cell outdoor base station, ideally suited for public and private operators, emergency first responders and military tactical communication networks. It is based on Texas Instruments (News - Alert) TMS320TCI6614 Communications Infrastructure SoC that delivers up to 4.8 GHz of DSP processing power through its KeyStone multicore architecture

Additionally, mimoOn's Physical Layer (mi!SmallCellPHY), Protocol Stack (mi!SmallCellSTACK) and advanced Scheduler (mi!SmallCellSPECTRUM) are pre-integrated on TEKTELIC's 2220 LTE micro eNodeB. mimoOn's products are also licensed by various small cell product developers as well.

The 2220 LTE micro eNodeB complete system combined with the integrated mimoOn PHY and software stacks enables system integrators to deliver complete outdoor solutions to the market quickly and cost effectively. The system can even support both access and backhaul applications depending on the software, said David Tholl, CTO at TEKTELIC Communications.

Brian Meads, VP marketing of mimoOn, commented, "Customers can enter the LTE small cell market with aggressive schedules due to the combination of this pre-integrated solution. They can take advantage of the investment TEKTELIC and mimoOn have made over the past years with top tier infrastructure vendors without sacrificing product differentiation."