Re: [Openbts-discuss] Cheap hardware research

[Ralph A. S. d. <ra...@sc...>]

A time ago, must have been the last GSM congress or the one before, there
were some reports about a BTS/node b in an USB stick, some new highly
integrated design to create sub-femto cells. I tried to find something about
it, but with no luck. Wish I had kept it, could be interesting hardware for
OpenBTS. In fact I also made my thoughts about some portable, easy to use
hardware. Smaller FPGA, smaller USB controller, some highly integrated
transceiver...should be possible.

Ralph.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dario Lombardo [mailto:dar...@gm...]
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 11:23 PM
> To: Charles Hearn
> Cc: ope...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Openbts-discuss] Cheap hardware research
> 
> OpenBTS needs a PC to run. If you intend to lower the price, but still
using a
> PC, you could take a look at the project osmobts, that aims a creating a
bts
> running on cheap hardware, like a reworked phone (one of the osmocom
> supported). That should be MUCH less expensive than a usrp :))
> 
> http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/OsmoBTS
> 
> Have a nice day.
> Dario.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Charles Hearn <cm...@vi...>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I've been playing around with a USRP1 setup with OpenBTS for a few
> > months now in a research lab, and I'm interested in the plausibility
> > of creating an ad-hoc USRP that could run OpenBTS or OpenBTS-like
> > software on a much cheaper build.  Obviously there is so much packed
> > into the USRP that isn't needed to run this specific software in the
> > 900 MHz band, and I want to know if it seems feasible to create a
> > cheaper (possibly arduino-powered?) hardware setup that could be used
> > specifically for creating an open, short-range BTS that could hand
> > over to a VoIP network.  I don't have a lot of expertise in this area,
so I
> would appreciate any help.  Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Charles Hearn
> > University of Virginia
> > Computer Science Department
> >
> >
> >
> >
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