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On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org wrote:
Hi Barnaby,
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:15:49PM -0400, Barnaby Astles wrote:
Has any one looked at airspan radios ?
I am not aware of anyone in our community having had access to those devices.
it's hard to judge how easily they would integrate with OpenBSC based on the marketing speech says ;)
I would guess that it should be fairly simple to integrate the GSM part, if it reuses the Abis related components from ip.access.
I suppose it is just a nanoBTS + LTE transceiver station contained in one cabinet. Probably the nanoBTS is equipped with an external amplifier, from the brochure, they have greater max/min output power, but other specifications are the same.
However, they could just use some completely different parts of the ip.access software stack, and have something custom over the back-haul link.
If you have an interest in OpenBSC interoperability with those units, I'm sure we could find a way to make it happen. My guess is that they would be pretty expensive, as the nanoBTS alone (without any LTE) is already horribly expensive.
Regards, Harald --
- Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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