anyone up for this? rgds,
McTim ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alberto Escudero-Pascual (lists) <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:31 PM Subject: Open GSM Base Station for Developing regions! Looking for a trial To: [email protected] In one image for the geeks: http://www.it46.se/images/uploads/1251111529_openbts46_trial.jpg Low cost open GSM base station for developing countries What did you do during your summer holidays? I was building my own GSM network! I have been waiting almost 20 years to make this phone call!. Back in the 90's when I started my engineering studies and discovered GNU/Linux, dreamed with a system that could do what I have right now on my table :). The first attempt was in 2001 when I was completing my PhD at KTH in Sweden. During those years a group of researchers in the Laboratory started to explore the possibility of replacing as much of the GSM architecture (BSC, MSC) for open source software. Although we had a commercial GSM container with plenty of noisy equipment, the project got stuck trying to find documentation for the GSM internal interfaces. In December 2008, I attended a conference about Mobile Service in Developing Regions. I was very surprised not to see anyone addressing the need of opening the GSM infrastructure (hardware and software). Christmas period was a good time for new projects so I decided to get in touch with the openbts project and try to build their base station. Assembling all the necessary hardware took a bit of time! David Burguess from openbts has been really helpful with hardware purchases!. Yes! It does work, and that first phone call felt like a different one :D. The base station uses a piece of hardware known as USRP. The USRP is a radio communication system where components that have typically been implemented in hardware are now implemented using software in a PC. We are looking for sponsors for a deployment in a developing region! Interested? Drop us a line! -aep PD. Thanks to the openbts folks for a great project! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "village-telco-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]<village-telco-dev%[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/village-telco-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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