the first Plugfest, organized by ETSI as part of its Plugtests 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 named ip.access along with its partner Cisco Systems, as the leading supplier of 3G femtocells. In August 2011, ip.access announced it had made more than 500,000 installations of its 3G technologies. In February 2013, ip.access announced it had become the first 3G small cell provider to ship one million residential units. In the same month, ip.access and completed successful interoperability testing of 3G small cells over IP Satellite. In February 2014, ip.access launched a new range of small cells called presenceCell, 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. Private equity fund Zouk Capital invested in ip.access in July 2015 alongside Amadeus Capital Partners. In August 2015, ip.access was named as a partner in the European Commission-funded €8 million Horizon 2020 Project SESAME. Led by Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE) the project's remit was to develop virtualised cloud-enabled, multi-operator, 5G radio access infrastructure and services. In February, 2016. ip.access launched its Viper platform to provide end-to-end connectivity and management for small cells. nanoVirt, a virtualised small cell gateway which integrates 2G, 3G and 4G small cell management and access control functions and can run on a carrier-grade Virtual Machine (VM) environment or hosted in a third-party data centre was announced in May 2016. Ip.access has deployed more than 2 million small cells globally which are used by mobile operators to densify their networks to improve network coverage and/or capacity. Small cells are also the foundation for private network use cases based on spectrum sharing such as CBRS in the United States. AeroMobile and SITAONAIR use ip.access small cells combined with satellite backhaul to provide cellular coverage on commercial and private aircraft. The company also supplies maritime solutions on freight vessels and cruise liners working with partners such as Pentonet, SpeedCast and Telecom26. Ip.access has also provided small cells connected over satellite as rapid deployment disaster response systems. Ip.access small cell solution have