Barcelona Needs to Become Bar-smallcell-ona to Support World-Class Mobile Broadband
February 27 2012 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD) has revealed
that the city of Barcelona will need approximately 40,000 small
cells by the year 2015 in order to offer genuinely world-class,
ubiquitous long-term evolution (LTE) mobile broadband service.
These findings are based on similar analysis reported by Picochip
Ltd. in 2011, which showed that London would require 70,000 small
cells with more than ten million needed worldwide.
“People now recognize that small cells are essential if LTE is
to deliver on its potential, and Barcelona is almost the perfect
example of a city designed for small cells,” said Doug Pulley,
chief technology officer, wireless and customer premises equipment
(CPE), at Mindspeed. “Barcelona, the perennial host of the world’s
largest mobile communications technology conference, is a
sophisticated city with a lot of people using smartphones and
tablets, and it is a very ‘digital’ city with above average usage.
However, the population density is very high and there are many
architecturally wonderful buildings with thick walls and lots of
attenuation. Many buildings are tall, relative to street width,
creating ‘urban canyons.’ These factors combined make deploying
networks to increase capacity a real challenge – but our model
suggests that by the year 2015, 40,000 small cells will give
Barcelona ‘best of breed’ wireless broadband.”
These small cells would be split between retail locations (from
large shopping centers down to smaller coffee shops); enterprises,
including large office blocks; nearly 7,000 ‘outdoor’ metropolitan
small cells; and almost 1,000 additional small cells to cover the
metro area. In 2011 Barcelona, the home to Mobile World Congress,
was named the Mobile World Capital by the GSM Association
(GSMA).
Mobile World Congress 2012
Mindspeed will host demonstrations and meetings for customers,
partners, press and analysts at Mobile World Congress 2012 in booth
1E.57 at the Fira Montjuïc in Barcelona, Spain, from Feb. 27 to
March 1, 2012. New products will be shown alongside the industry’s
broadest portfolio of small cell solutions, which includes members
of Mindspeed®’s award-winning Transcede® family, plus Picochip’s 3G
portfolio. In addition, Doug Pulley will present findings on his
70,000 small cells for London report on Monday, Feb. 27, at 6:00 pm
at the Mindspeed booth. For more information please visit
http://www.mindspeed.com/mwc2012.php.
About Mindspeed Technologies
Mindspeed Technologies (NASDAQ: MSPD) is a leading provider of
network infrastructure semiconductor solutions to the
communications industry. The company's low-power system-on-chip
(SoC) products are helping to drive video, voice and data
applications in worldwide fiber-optic networks and enable advanced
processing for 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) mobile networks.
The company's high-performance analog products are used in a
variety of optical, enterprise, industrial and video transport
systems. Mindspeed's products are sold to original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) around the globe.
To learn more, please visit www.mindspeed.com. Company news
and updates are also posted at www.twitter.com/mindspeed.
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