Hardware for 3G

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Rafael Diniz rafael at riseup.net
Fri Mar 9 19:55:26 UTC 2018


How about this one?
http://www.parallelwireless.com/products/converged-wireless-system/

It does support 2G, 3G and 4G.

Thanks,
Rafael Diniz

On 03/09/18 09:23, Sandi Suhendro wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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