10 Apr
2011
10 Apr
'11
10:35 a.m.
Hi again.
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 10:03:09PM +0200, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
Absolutely agree, that OpenBTS had very appreciable short term practical
goals, such as hooking a GSM phone to Asterisk.
it's not just a short-term goal, see David's response ;)
On Sat, Apr
09, 2011 at 08:37:20AM +0200, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
I refer to TLC as "Telecommunication" that's the
environment and
industry segment where our so "friendly" mobile industry players apply
patent and NDA everywhere to restrict access to the technology.
this email don't want to be a provocative
email but just an opinion
related to the creation of value for GSM TLC stack into the opensource
environment.
Sorry, what is TLC?
Additionally, if i understood correctly osmocom is much more advanced
with broad scope and better design than OpenBTS.
I think it is unfair. There are many design decisions, and I don't think
you can say something is better or worse. It depends on your purpose. Do
you want a sports car or a truck? Depends on your application which one
is better... While Osmocom had very long term goals, like making a
overall set of
technologies and libraries usable to build a complete gsm systems, from
bsc to baseband, to network analyzer, to ggsn/sgsn, msc, hlr.
Making a GSM network that can integrate with an IMS core network without
any of the usual components (bsc, sgsn, ...) is not a long-term goal?
So imho current status of OpenBTS is near to stalled,
without strong
opensource improvements.
While the current status of Osmocom is growing fast,
differentiating
itself in various projects, doing important refactoring to create a
solid technology stack reusable for most projects.
well, I would be careful regarding the 'solid' part. Large parts are
'proof of concept' or 'alpha' status at this time. The BSC is very
stable,
but if you look at the SGSN or the core network parts, it's entirely different
So most of the community investments sounds to be
directed to Osmocom.
Well, there is a community, but it is a small community, isn't it? Basically
Holger and myself on the BSC and core network side, and Sylvain and Andreas
doing the majority of the work on the telephone side. Pablo is sort of an
exceptional case, as he is doing paid work for me to do his cleanups and
improvements. Vance has generously donated his signerl code, for which I'm
grateful, but it was written a long time ago and never really 100% finished, so
we still have to do a lot of work finishing and integrating it with our other
code.
The truth is, I don't think there are significantly more people working on
Osmocom projects than on OpenBTS. Also, the comparison is odd, as you would
probably have to count only the network side projects (BSC, SGSN, ...) on
the Osmocom side.
Osmocom now it's missing a complete free
hardware/software BTS (for
example based on USRP devices).
Given it's fast growing community we can forecast in the near future the
need to support also the GSMum on USRP devices?