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Harald Welte gerrit-no-reply at lists.osmocom.orgHarald Welte has submitted this change and it was merged. Change subject: common: adjust preface to mention the current state of the Osmocom art ...................................................................... common: adjust preface to mention the current state of the Osmocom art Change-Id: I5690e7b5f0bd1483b5451f284a758b4b09c80d95 --- M common/chapters/preface.adoc 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Approvals: Harald Welte: Looks good to me, approved Jenkins Builder: Verified diff --git a/common/chapters/preface.adoc b/common/chapters/preface.adoc index d85e318..fd77d99 100644 --- a/common/chapters/preface.adoc +++ b/common/chapters/preface.adoc @@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ despite its ubiquity had not yet seen and Free / Open Source software implementations. -`bs11-abis` quickly turned into `bsc-hack`, then 'OpenBSC' and into -what is today known as its 'OsmoNITB' variant: A minimal implementation +`bs11-abis` quickly turned into `bsc-hack`, then 'OpenBSC' and its +'OsmoNITB' variant: A minimal implementation of all the required functionality of an entire GSM network, exposing A-bis towards the BTS. The project attracted more interested -developers, and surprisingly quick also commercial interest, -contribution and adoption. This added support for more BTS models +developers, and surprisingly quickly also commercial interest, +contribution and adoption. This allowed adding support for more BTS models. After having implemented the network-side GSM protocol stack in 2008 and 2009, in 2010 the same group of people set out to create a @@ -40,10 +40,17 @@ telephony, GMR satellite telephony, some SDR hardware, a SIM card protocol tracer and many others. -It has been a most exciting ride during the last seven years. I -wouldn't want to miss it under any circumstances. +Increasing commercial interest particularly in the BSS and core network +components has lead the way to 3G support in Osmocom, as well as the split +of the minimal 'OsmoNITB' implementation into separate and fully featured +network components: OsmoBSC, OsmoMSC, OsmoHLR, OsmoMGW and OsmoSTP (among +others), which allow seamless scaling from a simple "Network In The Box" to a +distributed installation for serious load. --- Harald Welte, Osmocom.org and OpenBSC founder, January 2016. +It has been a most exciting ride during the last eight-odd years. I would not +have wanted to miss it under any circumstances. + +-- Harald Welte, Osmocom.org and OpenBSC founder, December 2017. === Acknowledgements -- To view, visit https://gerrit.osmocom.org/5222 To unsubscribe, visit https://gerrit.osmocom.org/settings Gerrit-MessageType: merged Gerrit-Change-Id: I5690e7b5f0bd1483b5451f284a758b4b09c80d95 Gerrit-PatchSet: 3 Gerrit-Project: osmo-gsm-manuals Gerrit-Branch: master Gerrit-Owner: Neels Hofmeyr <nhofmeyr at sysmocom.de> Gerrit-Reviewer: Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> Gerrit-Reviewer: Jenkins Builder