Wrong Station
surely it's Paddington?
Vodafone is testing the Ericsson Radio Dot system as part of a push to improve in-building coverage. Aimed at big buildings with lots of mobile phone users, the technology uses CAT 5 Ethernet to connect small antennae throughout the premises, with the radio access network gubbins in a central location. Its proponents claim it …
...although Ericsson won't agree. The Dot seems to be just a remote radio head, so needs a fairly high bandwidth connection back to the "proper" base station which does all the donkey work. No more clever than a low power DAS, and doesn't scale up well to larger buildings, IMHO as you still need to parent it with a base station - rather than the option used by regular small cells that are only aggregated by a gateway box somewhere.
Fine for smaller deployment if you have spare capacity in the base station, but not that great otherwise.
Also, the CAT5 they use can't be shared with anything else at all or you'll really bugger up the throughput.
This is basically Ericsson's "I'm late to the small cell party - here's a small vegetarian quiche for the buffet"