Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3rd generation mobile technology that can support greater data rates for voice and video data to the wireless end users. The underlying transport layer for UMTS can be Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), or Internet Protocol (IP).
The UMTS network consists of the following elements -
NodeB - supporting broadband mobile users
Radio Network Controller (RNC) - manages radio resources (NodeBs) and routes traffic to circuit and packet switched elements
Mobile Switching Centre (MSC) - circuit switching element for voice
Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) - packet switching element for data and video
Femto Home NodeB (Femto Cell) - for enhanced coverage indoors and to offload the radio access network
Femto Home Node Gateway (HnB-GW) - provides wired broadband interface
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3rd generation mobile technology that can support greater data rates for voice and video data to the wireless end users. The underlying transport layer for UMTS can be Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), or Internet Protocol (IP).
The UMTS network consists of the following elements -
- NodeB - supporting broadband mobile users
- Radio Network Controller (RNC) - manages radio resources (NodeBs) and routes traffic to circuit and packet switched elements
- Mobile Switching Centre (MSC) - circuit switching element for voice
- Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) - packet switching element for data and video
- Femto Home NodeB (Femto Cell) - for enhanced coverage indoors and to offload the radio access network
- Femto Home Node Gateway (HnB-GW) - provides wired broadband interface
