NEC of Japan are system integrators, who combine several vendor's products into a complete offering, called the Home Gateway Solution. They use the Ubiquisys Zonegate femtocell and Kineto Wireless controller. At least six operator trials have been signed up.

They have also incorporated the Netgear home hub DVG834GH (which includes Ubiquisys 3G femtocell) into their portfolio. This provides ADSL2+ modem, WiFi, VoIP port and 3G femtocell in a single box.

NEC proposes to develop femtocell products for both the SIP and UMA architectures, but stated a strong preference for UMA.

NEC is partnering with Kineto Wireless and resells their UNC (UMA Network Controller).

O2 announced trial of their 3G solution with up to 500 users of O2 Telefonica in the UK to take place during summer of 2008, with a view to commercial launch in 2009 (which didn't happen).

They also partner with Tatara for a SIP based solution. Based on a SIP/IP femtocell architecture approach, the Tatara Subscriber Gateway and the Tatara Convergence Server are integrated into the NEC HGSS (Home Gateway Server System) to provide critical functionality such as authentication, security, voice and messaging convergence, supplementary service capabilities. However, we believe that most trials are focussed on the standard UMA approach.

NEC branded Ubiquisys space model femtocell

Their stand at Mobile World Congress in February 2008 included a space model of the Ubiquisys femtocell with NEC branding, but no live demo and very limited supplementary information.

NEC have been running many operator trials and debugging a variety of technical issues. Their global head of femtocells, Anil Kohli, shared his experience in a ThinkFemtocell Interview during 2009.

First commercial network launch using NEC eco-system was SFR France in December 2009. This used the Kineto Wireless Femtocell Gateway and Ubiquisys Zonegate femtocell.

Announced that the Airvana HubBub femtocell (UMTS version) was added to their ecosystem in February 2010. Integration was based on the 3GPP Iu-h standard.

NEC also announced adoption of the Ubiquisys G3 femtocell (based on Percello PRC6500 chip), which they rebranded the FP810. This reduced size box (8 centimetres long) can handle 8 concurrent calls, HSPA data yet consumes less than 5W of power.

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