Hi all,
Do you see any interest in the domain of femtocells?
this model, that will be sold in France, claims to be pluggable (probably via ethernet) into nearly any ISP provided home router (internet "box").
http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/65810-sfr-mobile-adsl-3g-femto.htm
Is it in any way comparable to the nanoBTS and other stuff you're hacking nowadays ?
Regards
Sebastien
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:25:51PM +0200, Sébastien Lorquet wrote:
Do you see any interest in the domain of femtocells?
Of course. There is already support for one in openbsc [1].
this model, that will be sold in France, claims to be pluggable (probably via ethernet) into nearly any ISP provided home router (internet "box").
http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/65810-sfr-mobile-adsl-3g-femto.htm
Is it in any way comparable to the nanoBTS and other stuff you're hacking nowadays ?
AFAIK this device is 3G only. Since there is no 3G support in openbsc (yet), I am afraid there is not much value in the device for openbsc at the moment. Please don't take my statements as authoritative, I'm not a dev of the project. By the way, openbsc has it's own ML [2].
For a bit more information, see [4].
Kind regards, -Alexander Huemer
[1] http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/HSL_Femto [2] http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/openbsc/2010-December/002296.html [3] http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/#Developers
Hi Sébastien,
On 22.09.2011 15:25, Sébastien Lorquet wrote:
Hi all,
Do you see any interest in the domain of femtocells?
Osmocom is actively working on a 2G femtocell (BTS). 3G femtocells (NodeB) uses an UMTS stack. It is not a phone baseband. The openBSC list is more appropriate. Also it's 3G, it's a bit different from GSM which osmocom is about currently. There is no free implementation of a 3G stack yet.
this model, that will be sold in France, claims to be pluggable (probably via ethernet) into nearly any ISP provided home router (internet "box").
http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/65810-sfr-mobile-adsl-3g-femto.htm
This is the second version on the femtocell provided by this operator. The first one was Ethernet only. This one mainly uses USB but also provides an Ethernet port. The limiting factor is that one needs a mobile phone subscription from this operator to order the femtocell. Getting such a device is not possible (hard) for everyone.
Is it in any way comparable to the nanoBTS and other stuff you're hacking nowadays ?
nanoBTS uses GSM while this femtocell uses 3G. The protocols are different. Moreover, the architecture is also a bit different. Femtocell are more then just transceivers. But if you are interested, this femtocell (the first version) has already been abused. More information on http://femto.sec.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/ , or just ask the involved team.
Good luck, Kevin
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