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フェムトセルコアネットワークゲートウェイは、あらゆるフェムトセル導入の主要部分である。この調査レポートは、特にフェムトセルアグリゲーションゲートウェイとセキュリティゲートウェイに注目し、さらにCDMAフェムトセルの主要なコンポーネントであるコンバージェンスゲートウェイとサーバについても触れている。アグリゲーションゲートウェイは、制御プレーンとユーザープレーンフェムトセルトラフィックの両方の機能を集中し、セキュリティゲートウェイは、オペレータのコアネットワークにIPSecターミネーションやDDoS防御などのセキュリティメカニズムを提供する。コンバージェンスゲートウェイ/サーバは、SIP/IMS環境における2G/3G音声サービス、特に非IMS(2G/3G MSCスイッチ)とIMSネットワークに接続する際に、MSCとIMSのアプリケーションサーバをエミュレートする。これらの3つの要素は、住宅向けフェムトセルに採用されているが、企業や大都市圏のフェムトセルでも採用されるだろう。この調査レポートは、フェムトセルコアゲートウェイの主要製品と市場傾向に注目し、この市場のベンダーにふさわしい戦略を提供している。また、この調査レポートは、セキュリティゲートウェイ市場規模を予測し、フェムトセルネットワークの主要事項と、都市圏や企業で採用されるLTEフェムトセルの重要性について述べている。

Femtocell core network gateways are an essential part of any femtocell deployment. This report primarily focuses on femtocell aggregation gateways and security gateways, but also touches upon convergence gateways/servers, which are necessary components for CDMA femtocells. Aggregation gateways provide concentrator functionality for both control plane and user plane femtocell traffic, while security gateways provide IPSec termination, DDoS protection, and other security mechanisms for the operator core network. Convergence gateway/server emulates a MSC and IMS application server allowing for 2G/3G voice service in a SIP/IMS environment, essentially connecting non-IMS (2G/3G MSC switches) and IMS networks. All three elements are deployed for residential femtocells but can also be deployed for enterprise and metro femtocell deployments.

This report focuses on some of the key product and deployment trends for femtocell core gateways and provides strategic recommendations for vendors in this marketplace. This report also provides forecasts and sizing for the security gateway market, which is one of the most important and mandatory elements for femtocell networks and is becoming much more essential in LTE femtocells as they get begin to get deployed in metro and enterprise locations.

What Questions Does This Report Answer?

• How does the emergence of enterprise and metro femtocells impact the deployment and architecture of femtocell core gateways?
• Will consumer, enterprise, and metro femtocells have separate core network architectures?
• Which amongst the three markets of consumer, enterprise, and metro will see the largest revenue opportunity for femtocell core gateways?
• How will LTE femtocells impact the deployment of femtocell core gateways?
• What are the OEM strategies with regards to consolidation of femtocell and macrocell core network infrastructure?
• What are some of the key value add features being seen in femtocell core gateways?
• How does the femtocell core gateway vendor space vary in terms of feature sets being provided?
• Does support for I-WLAN have an important role going forward?

Who Needs This Report?

• Femtocell system integrators
• Femtocell core gateway vendors
• Mobile operators
• Femtocell access point vendors
• Venture capital funds
• Investment funds

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Half of All Femtocell Security Gateway Revenue Will Come from Enterprise by 2016

LONDON - August 15, 2011
Consumer femtocells are expected to account for the bulk of the market. But in the femtocell core network, enterprise will play a bigger role, according to a new study from ABI Research. Femtocell core networks are based on user capacity rather than access point deployments, and the number of enterprise femtocell users is expected to be far greater than consumer femtocell users.

Aditya Kaul, practice director, mobile networks, says, “While the femtocell access point vendors are concentrating on the consumer femtocell market (driven by access point volumes), the femtocell gateway vendors need to focus on the enterprise market. They should consider building partnerships that focus on that segment and allow them to tune and enhance their products’ capabilities for the enterprise.”

Of the current 70+ contracts, ABI Research has counted at least 15 pure enterprise femtocell contracts, with 25 contracts being a mix of residential and enterprise femtocells. Enterprise femtos are to make up 36% of shipments by 2016 which relates to 50% of security gateway revenues.

Those revenues will be garnered by Genband, Acme Packet, Stoke, Intellinet, Huawei, Alcatel Lucent, Cisco and other key security gateway vendors who make up the market. Some of the larger end-to-end femto suppliers are starting to consider partnering for security gateways. This is beneficial for independent vendors such as Genband, Acme Packet, Stoke and IntelliNet.

ABI Research’s new “Femtocell Gateways” study focuses on some of the key product and deployment trends for femtocell core gateways, and provides strategic recommendations for vendors in this marketplace. It also includes forecasts and sizing for the security gateway market.

This report is part of the Femtocell and Small Cell Research Service.