The only reason I can think of is perhaps you are
someone like me,
someone who absolutely loves and adores retro-telecom technologies and
old telco gear of all kinds, and wishes to keep the real Siemens BSC
and its TRAU as a matter of philosophical principle. If this situation
indeed holds, please let me know! I have to explicitly ask this
question because motivations like mine are extremely rare in this
community, most other participants around here seem to approach from a
commercial PoV, and their mindset tends to be totally different from
mine.
Yes, you are right, this is the motivation. I used to work with this kind of equipment and
I would like to see it working again. Since we have here at the university Mobile
Communications courses, I am also interested in the didactic aspect of this project.
In any case, I am still interested in hearing what is
your motivation
for getting the Siemens BSC (with TRAU) working with Osmocom CNI, and
not just the BTS part - if your motivation is akin to mine
(philosophically principled retronetworking), then maybe we can be
friends!
It seems that we have the same motivation, so indeed we can be friends and work on this
nice project!
Sincerely,
Dan.