Hardware for 3G

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Sandi Suhendro djks74 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 12:23:30 UTC 2018


Hi Neels,
Can we buy the nano3G only from sysmocom and get it working with limesdr
for transceiver?

I still wondering how it works together wirh sdr, is that possible?

Regards,
Sandi

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018, 19:17 Neels Hofmeyr <nhofmeyr at sysmocom.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 08:34:57AM +0000, Bruckner Jan (ETAS-SEC/ECT-Mu)
> wrote:
> > Hi Neels,
> >
> > >> Are there any alternatives I'm not aware of other than using
> > >> non-Osmocom projects?
> >
> > >Could you rephrase that? :)
> >
> > Sure :)
> > I looked into other 2G/3G projects, mainly OpenBTS and YateBTS and saw
> that
> > OpenBTS-UMTS should support 3G with my SDR. But I'd very much prefer
> > sticking to Osmocom, because OpenBTS seems not very active, at least
> towards
> > the public. So I was wondering if someone might be working on another
> > Osmocom project that I have not come across yet, that might provide an
> > alternative to buying a nano3G.
> > Actually, I just found [1], which also uses the nano3G. So nano3G seems
> like
> > the way to go right now.
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> It is not trivial to find femto cells that provide a usable Iuh that is not
> locked down to specific vendors / networks.
>
> It is also not trivial to write a separate RNC that would allow operating
> Iu
> proper instead of requiring Iuh, which would open up more possibilities
> for 3G
> base station hardware. None of GSM is trivial, but we have no RNC yet :)
>
> At Osmocom/sysmocom, we have the sysmoCell 5k series, and have also
> managed to
> get the far cheaper nano3G plugged to our osmo-hnbgw; plus at sysmocom we
> have
> a certain number of them available. So wherever you look in the Osmocom
> ecosystem, you will see the nano3G popping up its head. The Accelerate3g5
> was
> specifically launched by sysmocom to get more people involved in Osmocom 3G
> and, naturally, we gave away nano3G units to about a dozen projects.
> http://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Accelerate3g5
>
> There is an ongoing process of finding more suitable femto cells, and it
> looks
> promising, though it's not worth an announcement as of yet.
>
> Anyone out there may join the effort and investigate femto cell models
> available on the market and find ways to unlock them so they become
> generally
> usable with Osmocom 3G.
>
> If you want to get started, the nano3G indeed is your best bet with
> Osmocom at
> the moment. Be aware that not all nano3G you can buy out there are ready
> to be
> configured and talk Iuh to any host, so sysmocom is probably the safest
> source.
>
> ~N
>
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