Features include

  Call options includes:
  • Femtocell to Femtocell
  • Femtocell to VoIP
  • Femtocell to PSTN/POTS

  Air Interfaces support includes:
  • GSM Family (incl. UMTS, WCDMA)
  • CDMA (incl. 1xRTT, EV-DO)
  • UMA, WiMAX, UMB & LTE
  • HSDPA, HSUPA & HSPA+

  Broadband Interface support includes:
  • xDSL (incl. ADSL, ADSL2+, ADSL2++, SDSL)
  • Cable/Fiber
  • Ethernet LAN/WAN

  ITU Standards-based reporting
  • PESQ (ITU P. 862)
  • ECHO (ITU G.131)

  Unlimited testing scenarios
  • Unlimited Voice & HSPA sessions supported
  • Video Streaming capability (Mutiple codecs)
  • Broadband VoIP (SIP, G.711, G.729)

  Protocol support includes:
  • PPPoE (Europe & USA)
  • PPPoA (europe & USA)
  • PPPoAoE

  Real-time Service Quality Alerts:
  • SNMP Support
  • Email Alerting
  • SMS Alerting

FemtoLab™

IP-Focused Femtocell Testing. Solved

For both Device Manufacturers & Cellular Operators the most cost-effective way of successfully introducing any new femtocell technology is thorough step-by-step testing in a controlled 'near live' Laboratory environment. In the absence of automated, repeatable methods, with actual representative traffic, your testing will lack the ability to test all possible load, traffic interference and configuration scenarios — with the potential to leave vulnerabilities unchecked.

FemtoLab™ is the industry's first IP-backhaul focused test solution for Cable, Ethernet and DSL-based testing of any Femtocell equipment. By actually creating the complex traffic profiles evident in a typical consumer broadband home FemtoLab™ provides a powerful automated platform for an infinite range of operating scenarios including actual testing, from the handset, of Voice, HSPA and SMS/MMS service delivery and scalability. The in-depth feature set and advanced test scheduling enables scheduled test cycles and automated test coverage while freeing up your company's talent from repetitive testing.

Typical AP Testing Environments

Backhaul Support Air Interfaces
Laboratory LAN
 GSM Family (incl. UMTS, WCDMA)
DSL (ADSL, ADSL2+, ADSL2++, SDSL) CDMA (incl. 1xRTT, EV-DO)
Cable/Fiber (Fios/FTTH) UMA/WiFi
LTE/WiMax HSDPA (Up to 7.2Mb/s)

Supported Device Testing Scenarios

Device/AP Dimensioning Application
Femtocell   4 x
 + 4 x
OR 4 x
OR 2 x
OR 1 x
 		12.2kbit AMR Voice Calls
  HSPA (7.21Mbps)
  64bit CS/PS Data
  144kbit CS/PS Data
  384kbit CS/PS Data
Picocell   32 x
 + 16 x
OR  8 x
OR  1 x
OR  1 x
 		12.2kbit AMR Voice Calls
  HSPA (14.4 Mbps)
  64bit CS/PS Data
  144kbit CS/PS Data
  384kbit CS/PS Data
Microcell   32 x
 OR 32 x
OR  8 x
OR  4 x
OR  2 x
 		12.2kbit AMR Voice Calls
   HSPA (14.4 Mbps)
  64bit CS/PS Data
  144kbit CS/PS Data
  384kbit CS/PS Data


Key Benefits: FemtoLab™ offers fully integrated Lab testing of any femtocell, handset and HSxPA environment. Some key features of the Test Suite:

  • Dramatically reduce testing time with increased confidence in product reliability
  • Test multiple consumer broadband traffic scenarios concurrently
  • Fully configurable and repeatable automated testing
  • Reduce the risk of costly 'in-life' product failures
  • Expose IP protocol issues that are impossible to test manually
  • Create an instant regression test-bed for future releases in development
  • Detailed analysis of each call includes PESQ ratings, IP network quality, signaling and voice latency
  • Powerful and flexible report generation
  • Trend Testing - Profile behavior with continuous long term testing at different times of the day, week, or month.
  • Competitive Device Insight - 'At a glance' insight of your competitors strengths and weaknesses
  • Remote-control and real-time availability reporting of all IP services

Pre-qualify underlying Broadband network quality
  • Throughput
  • Packet Loss
  • Latency
Speech Transmission - PESQ (ITU standard P.862)
  • Mean-Opinion-Score (MOS) Rating & E-Model Integration
  • P.862.1 is the ITU-T standard mapping for PESQ to MOS-like scale
  • PESQ-LQ gives a quality score on a MOS-like scale
  • PESQ-Ie is the impairment factor, Ie, which is an input to the E-model
  • Speech Activity
  • Speech Power
  • Loss
  • C-message noise
  • Wideband noise
Echo Detection (ITU G.131)
  • Echo Return Loss (ERL); echo attenuation in dB
  • ERLs and echo delays for multiple echoes
  • Perceptual estimation of echo annoyance (ITU-T G.131)
HSPA Module available to test data capabilities of femtocell and includes metrics for:
  • Packet Domain Stats including Negotiation Time, Authentication and IP Address Assignment
  • Raw TCP/UDP Performance - On and Off Network (International Peering Points)
  • HTTP Performance
  • FTP Performance
  • PING testing
  • DNS testing
  • Packet Loss Reporting