cambridge united kingdom area served worldwide key people malcolm gordon ceo products nano3g nanogsm oyster 3g technology nanolte presencecell slogan unleashing the power of the mobile phone using indoor connectivity website http www.ipaccess.com ip.access limited is a multinational corporation that designs manufactures and markets small cells picocell and femtocell technologies and infrastructure equipment for gsm gprs edge 3g and lte . the firm has headquarters in cambourne england the company also maintains operations and offices in bellevue wa united states and gurgaon and pune india . ip.access combines ip and cellular technologies together to provide 2g 3g and lte coverage and for mobile networks . using satellite backhaul its products provide coverage to commercial passenger aircraft 1 ships 2 and users in remote rural areas . the firm is a member of 3gpp 3 the cambridge network 4 european telecommunications standards institute etsi 5 small cell forum 6 and an associate member of the network vendors interoperability testing nviot forum . 7 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 nanogsm 2.2 nano3g 2.3 oyster 3g technology 2.4 nanolte 2.5 presencecell 3 customers and partners 4 awards 4.1 2007 4.2 2008 4.3 2009 4.4 2010 4.5 2011 4.6 2012 4.7 2013 4.8 2014 4.9 2015 5 references 6 external links history edit ip.access was founded in december 1999 8 as a wholly owned subsidiary of ttp group plc 9 aimed at developing technologies that would allow multiple radio access technologies to communicate over the internet . to accommodate its growing staff in 2006 ip.access relocated to new offices in cambourne business park cambridge where it remains . 10 in october 2000 ttp group spun off its communications division ttp communications or ttpcom in an initial public offering on the london stock exchange and ip.access joined the spin off as a wholly owned subsidiary of the ttpcom group . in march 2006 the company secured an 8.5 million round of funding from intel capital scottish equity partners and rothschild & cie banque . 11 as part of its june 2006 acquisition of ttp communications motorola also gained a stake in ip.access . 12 in 2007 after signing an oem agreement with ip.access adc 13 now part of tyco electronics made a minority interest investment in the company . followed by both cisco systems 14 and qualcomm 15 making strategic financial investments in the company in 2008 . in july 2007 the firm became a founding member of the femto forum renamed small cell forum in february 2012 . 16 17 ip.access was named in the sunday times fast tech track 100 in both 2007 18 and 2008 . 19 the company was also cited as the number one picocell vendor by global market intelligence company abi research in 2008 . 20 in 2009 ip.access was named in the deloitte technology fast 500 emea . 21 in april 2009 the company announced its oyster 3g product would support femtocell standards published by 3gpp and the broadband forum . 22 in march 2010 the company took part in the first plugfest 23 organized by etsi as part of its plugtests 24 program held to demonstrate the effectiveness of the 3gpp femtocell standards in supporting interoperability between femtocell access points and network equipment from different vendors . in june 2011 the market research and analysis firm infonetics 25 named ip.access along with its partner cisco systems as the leading supplier of 3g femtocells . 26 in august 2011 ip.access 27 announced it had made more than 500 000 installations of its 3g technologies . 28 in february 2013 ip.access announced it had become the first 3g small cell provider to ship one million residential units . 29 in the same month ip.access and idirect completed successful interopability test of 3g small cells over ip satellite . 30 in february 2014 ip.access launched a new range of small cells called presencecell 31 which unlike traditional small cells do not rely on providing indoor coverage and capacity to deliver a return on investment . rather the ultra compact base stations are designed to capture anonymous user location and phone identity information from smartphones which can be analysed and packaged as a service for a variety of businesses . products edit the telecommunications firms at & t 32 uses oyster 3g as the core femtocell technology for its 3g microcell 33 product . cisco systems 34 has jointly developed a femtocell solution with ip.access in compliance with the broadband forum s tr 069 22 technical specification . nanogsm edit in 2002 ip.access introduced the world s first ip basestation controller for indoor gsm networks . 35 nanogsm uses 2g picocells that leverage the standard gsm air interface full ip based bsc and an omc r management system that delivers voice messaging and data to both 2g and 3g handsets at an indoor range of up to 200m . nano3g edit nano3g is an end to end femtocell system with access points for enterprise e class e8 e16 and e24 and small medium business s class s8 access controller and element management system providing carrier class coverage to commercial 36 and consumer users . 37 the ip.access nano3g enterprise oyster 3g technology edit launched at the 2007 3gsm world congress in barcelona spain 38 the oyster 3g is ip.access core 3g femtocell technology used by system integrators and oem customers to integrate wcdma femtocells into home gateways set top boxes and other devices . ip.access oyster 3g is the core technology of at & t s 3g microcell 39 nanolte edit nanolte e 40 e 100 is an enterprise grade platform that brings lte capacity both in doors and in public spaces while also offering the option of providing extra 3g infill and circuit switch fall back csfb capacity . presencecell edit launched in 2014 the presencecell is a new range of small cell designed to capture precise user location data via their smart phone which can be analysed and packaged as a service for a variety of businesses . in addition to the presencecell ip.access also provides the back end processing and management system that delivers the presence data anonymously and securely to vertical application providers . the company s network orchestration system serves as the infrastructure management solution and also supports the gsma s oneapi standard which allows third parties to provide value added services through web friendly message interfaces . the presencecell was commercially deployed by vodafone turkey in 2015 . 40 customers and partners edit among ip.access major customers are at & t 32 bharti airtel 41 blue ocean wireless 2 bouygues telecom 42 jersey telecom 43 monaco telecom 44 sfr 45 spie sa 45 t mobile 46 tele2 47 telef nica o2 czech republic 48 telia sonera 49 vivacom 50 and vodafone 51 the company s technology partners 52 include aeromobile 53 altobridge 54 blue ocean wireless 55 cisco systems 34 private mobile networks 56 qualcomm 57 quortus 58 setcom 58 and triagnosys . 59 awards edit corporate product and personnel awards won by ip.access include the following 2007 edit light reading leading lights awards best new product private company 60 global mobile awards best radio access product or service 61 the sunday times fast tech track 100 18 world communications award best technology foresight 62 2008 edit the sunday times fast tech track 100 19 2009 edit deloitte fast 500 emea 21 femto forum awards femtocell or femtocell network element design and technology innovation 63 femto forum awards femtocell service commercial prototype or demo 63 global telecoms business innovation awards maritime voice services 64 2010 edit gtb power100 65 world vendor awards best specialist vendor 66 2011 edit femto forum awards femtocell network element design and technology innovation 67 2012 edit world vendor awards small cell award 68 small cell forum industry awards judges choice award 69 2013 edit small cell forum industry awards social vision promoting small cells for social economical environmental development 70 2014 edit small cell forum industry awards social impact promoting small cells for social economic environmental development . 71 2015 edit small cell forum industry awards social impact small cells create advanced lte testbeds for aspiring engineers worldwide . 72 references edit ip.access and altobridge collaborate to provide gsm sky sea phone services press release . ip.access . february 2 2009 . retrieved june 2 2011 . a b mobiles connect across the waves bbc news february 2 2009 . 3gpp membership 3gpp . retrieved june 14 2011 . ip.access organization profile cambridge network . retrieved june 14 2011 . etsi member information etsi . retrieved june 14 2011 . small cell forum membership and small cell forum network vendors interoperability testing forum member network vendors interoperability testing forum . about ttp . ttp group . retrieved june 2 2011 . ttp group plc ip.access moves to new offices to support growth press release . ip.access . september 15 2005 . retrieved june 3 2011 . ip.access secures 8.5 million funding to accelerate growth in cost effective cellular infrastructure for homes and businesses press release . ip.access . march 13 2006 . retrieved june 3 2011 . motorola gobbles up ttpcom the register june 7 2006 . cheung ken . adc makes investment in ip.access edageek july 30 2007 . cisco makes strategic investment in ip.access press release . cisco systems . january 23 2008 . retrieved june 2 2011 . higginbotham stacey . qualcomm backs femtocell maker ip.access gigaom may 21 2008 . femto forum becomes small cell forum as femtocell technology extends beyond the home press release . small cell forum . february 15 2012 . retrieved august 19 2013 . ip.access joins board of the femto forum a new body to promote femtocell standardisation and deployment press release . ip.access . july 6 2007 . retrieved june 8 2011 . a b 2007 tech track 100 league table uk the sunday times fast tech track 100 . retrieved june 8 2011 . a b 2008 tech track 100 league table uk the sunday times fast tech track 100 . retrieved june 8 2011 . picocell equipment vendor matrix abi research . retrieved june 9 2011 . a b 2009 winners deloitte . retrieved june 8 2011 . a b bhushan amarendra . ip.access demonstrates progress on femtocell standards ceoworld magazine april 07 2009 . femto forum completes world s first femtocell plugfest press release . femto forum . march 30 2010 . retrieved june 30 2011 . plugtests infonetics webb richard . samsung cisco ip.access lead nascent femtocell market set to hit 300 million in 2011 infonetics research june 16 2011 . 1 business weekly . 2 ip.access rides small cell wave to 1m milestone february 18 2011 . 3 idirect . 4 idirect and ip.access complete successful interoperability test of 3g small cell infrastructure and ip satellite technology february 21 2011 . 5 a b saabedra humberto . at & t to deploy femtocell technology from uk firm ip.access phone news may 1 2008 . david chambers . att wireless . think femtocell . retrieved june 2 2011 . a b donegan michelle . cisco ip.access prep femto combo light reading mobile may 13 2008 . ip.access goes indoors light reading mobile december 3 2002 . weaver pamela . femtocells grow into the enterprise space telecoms.com february 15 2011 . 6 lennighan mary . femtocells key for mobile operators vendors total telecom february 12 2007 . 7 8 shukla anuradha . bharti airtel deploys ip.access nanogsm picocell in india tmcnet.com september 16 2010 . bouygues picks ip.access light reading mobile february 15 2010 . 9 ip.access revs up coverage for monaco telecom edn magazine may 21 2009 . a b ip.access sfr business team and spie collaborate to bring picocells to french market tmcnet.com february 3 2009 . ip.access builds up t mobile telecommunications insight september 2009 . tele2 picks ip.access for picocells light reading mobile october 23 2003 . ip.access signs contract with czech operator telef nica o2 to enhance gsm in building coverage