Re: [Openbts-discuss] Airvana Femto Cell.

[Anders B. <and...@gm...>]

Indeed Sprint is CDMA although their newer towers could support GSM with a
software update and they do own some 900 Mhz spectrum, I'd be surprised if
they go GSM. I'd also be surprised if the Airave radio is software
upgradable.

-a

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Harald Welte <la...@gn...> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 04:33:05PM +0100, Axel Walsleben wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > has anyone tested to port the software to the hardware from airvana ?
> > Airvana builds Femto Stations that are sold through Sprint US. you can
> > get them via Ebay vor less than 200 USD.
>
> The only Sprint femtocells I know are Samsung Airave, and they are
> CDMA2000,
> i.e. not related to GSM at all.
>
> I have one of them here, just out of curiosity.  It seems to be a very
> custom hardware design centered around Altera Hardcopy ASICs.
>
> As Sprint is a CDMA operator (correct me if I'm wrong), it sounds a bit
> strange for them to offer GSM femtocells like you claim.  Some quick
> web searches turned out that the Airvana supports EV-DO, which once again
> is a CDMA2000 feature.
>
> I don't see how this fits at all with GSM
>
> Regards,
>        Harald
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