Re: [Openbts-discuss] Announcing YateBTS

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

Congrats, David!

YateBTS looks like a much better approach than original OpenBTS. Looking
forward to see it in action at OsmoDevCon.


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:33 PM, David A. Burgess <dbu...@jc...> wrote:

> Hello -
>
> Today, we are proud to announce the release of YateBTS 1.0, the result of
> a collaboration between my new company, Legba, Inc, and the good people at
> Null Team SRL, the home of Yate.
>
> YateBTS is basically the OpenBTS L1 PHY, L2 link layer and L3 radio
> resource manager, with all other functions implemented in Yate.  This
> offers some huge advantages over the original OpenBTS SIP interface,
> including dramatically improved stability, direct support for the all of
> the protocols already supported by Yate (XMPP/Jabber/Jingle, H.323, MGCP,
> IAX, ISDN, and others) and lots of other Yate features, like SNMP.  Most
> notably, though, when YateBTS is used with the commercial version of Yate,
> it gets the benefit of Yate’s deployed and certified SS7-MAP interfaces,
> for ready integration into existing mobile infrastructure, including
> roaming support.
>
> Architecturally, YateBTS is built from a “decapitated” version of the
> OpenBTS public release, called “MBTS", interfaced to Yate over a socket.
>  Through this socket, the Yate messaging engine sees abstract “connections”
> that represent the dedicated radio channels to the mobile stations.  This
> approach allows Yate and the MBTS component to be licensed independently.
>  So MBTS inherits the OpenBTS AGPLv3 license and Yate is distributed under
> either GPLv2 or a commercial binary license, depending on the version.
>
> In the first public release, YateBTS supports GSM-FR calls, SMS and GPRS.
>  This is a smaller feature set than OpenBTS, but since Yate now allows the
> control layer to be coded in Javascript, we expect new features to develop
> very quickly.  (Really; once we decided to build YateBTS it only took a few
> weeks to get this far.)
>
> Please have a look at yatebts.com for more information.
>
> Thanks and Have Fun,
> David
>
>
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