21 Sep
2010
21 Sep
'10
6:31 p.m.
Thanks for all the answers.
Maybe you heard about the Village-Telco Mesh Potato project?
That started out with a router based of openwrt / dd-wrt, and then designed
their own Mesh Potato.
It is an embedded Asterisk with wifi and mesh networking.
With SDR (software defined radio) would it not be possible to design /
develop a cheap GSM basestation?
I am a total noob on hardware development but I suppose there is a large
market for this.
Or maybe somebody already working on reverse engineering other base stations
like the nanobts?
If one wanted to design a base station controller, what would be needed?
Do you really need something like http://www.percello.com/prc6000.php
Or might something simpler be possible with modifying a router and with a
different antenna on 1800mhz?
Albert
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:00:07PM +0200, Sylvain
Munaut wrote:
Regarding quantity: 3G femtocells in single quantities are also quite
expensive! Only if you buy them in volume (as an operator) they become
that cheap.
Furthermore, even the nanoBTS becomes _much_ cheaper when you buy it in
volume
(let's say 1000 units or more)
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org>
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> The nanoBTS from ipaccess is costing euro
3450 Mind you this is without
any
software
or server, just a single nanoBTS unit.
I thing several things contribute to the high price:
- That's part of ip.access revenue stream, they need to make money
- Quantity: There is probably much more femtocell made than nanoBTS