[Openbts-discuss] Announcing Fairwaves: The definite radio hardware for OpenBTS

[Alexander C. <ale...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I told that to many of you personally, but now I want to make an
official announcement. We're set to develop radio hardware to be used
with OpenBTS and specifically crafted for deployments in rural and
developing regions. We don't expect it to be $100 cheap, but the total
cost of a solution will be much lower then what exists today. Besides
being inexpensive, we develop it to be compact, suitable for outdoor
installations and geared to create energy-efficient systems, able to
run from solar or wind power. This hardware will also be equipped with
appropriate software and firmware pieces designed to improve hardware
operation in terms of cell coverage radius, power consumption, etc.  I
want to clarify, that creating a ready-to-use base station equipment
is not our goal at this moment as we want to concentrate on developing
the radio side hardware and software. We see this as the only part
missing off-the-shelf right now, what prevents real-world cheap base
stations to be created.

There's not much more I want to tell about the project right now, to
avoid begging pardon for changed plans later. But if you're interested
in our project in any way, please drop me a letter privately - we're
more then willing to discuss it with all interested parties to make
sure we're doing the right thing and satisfy all real needs. And for
sure, we will notify this mailing list about major milestones of our
project.

Our web-site is pretty much empty at this moment, but we will fill it
with more information as the project moves forward.
http://www.fairwaves.ru

--
Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.
http://www.fairwaves.ru