Total number of trials at the end of 2Q07: six active trials, one active femtocell trail, total eleven commercial UMA offerings where Kineto is involved. New service providers signed up during the recent quarter (2Q07): one
Kineto has been pushing the Femtocell FMC option lately. The company has been exploring how UMA could be applied to Femtocell. It claims that UMA is a natural fit for Femtocell. (You can run a UMA client in a femtocell back to the UMA controller connected to the public Internet. From the Femtocell to the handset there is a standard 3G protocol. So you can use a standard 3G handset. The WiFi-GSM type of FMC requires a special dual mode handset.)
Kineto is licensing a client that can be used in a femtocell. The company is also working with picoChip, silicon supplier to femtocell marketplace. Kineto also carried out interop test between Ubiquisys femtocell and its network controller.
On the controller side, the biggest recent news was signing NEC as system integration partner for femtocell marketplace. NEC will resell Kineto’s UNC controller along with their femtocell solution. Kineto has also joined the Femtocell Forum. The company also completed a significant controller software update including features to cater for large scale femtocell deployments.
On the handset side, Kineto has “more business than the company can handle.” The new dual-model handset RFPs that have come out over the last few months have kept Kineto busy on the client/handset side. The vendor expects at least 10 commercially available dual mode handsets by the end of this year and easily 20 by the end of next year.