Hi all,
Perhaps it's not appropiate to ask here (first post here)....
I saw on the wiki the recipee how to upgrade a ipaccess nanobts with new firmware.
Well, i can probably do some experimenting with a nanobts, but how do i get hold of more recent firmware?
I know this nanobts was used in a proof-of-concept trial some years ago, and needed to be upgraded at that time. After the project ended, we had no more official contact with ipaccsess, so no chance in asking them for new firmware '-)
From what i heard, they cannot be used in a next project, as they were
lacking some hardware features. So it would be fun if i do some experimenting at home.
hw
On 08/21/2010 08:20 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
Well, i can probably do some experimenting with a nanobts, but how do i get hold of more recent firmware?
ipaccess ltd is the only place for firmware, you might want to warm up your relationship with them and ask for new firmware.
Which model do you have? What kind of hardware features do you think are missing? Do you have any specific problem with OpenBSC and this hardware or are you just wondering?
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 22:58 +0800, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
On 08/21/2010 08:20 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
Well, i can probably do some experimenting with a nanobts, but how do i get hold of more recent firmware?
ipaccess ltd is the only place for firmware, you might want to warm up your relationship with them and ask for new firmware.
Which model do you have? What kind of hardware features do you think are missing? Do you have any specific problem with OpenBSC and this hardware or are you just wondering?
Hi,
I'm not quite shuer about the model, after looking at: http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/nanoBTS_Models
If i remember correctly, i saw something like 139U on the box. What makes sense, as we were using multi trx-configuration.
otoh, i vaguely remember that we were using the edge-channels, what would implicate the 165U model. In our test-set up, about two years ago, we used two different models, a dozen with and a dozen without external antenna's. In that configuration we used an official bts, omc and mmc, and had roaming agrements with our national provider.
Considering the age, i presumed i have to upgrade them before i can use them with openbsc and my own asterisk, not ?
Would be fun to use them at home, and afaicr people in NL and UK are allowed to do this....
Considering ipaccess, at work we were going to do another test. And during a demo, they claimed that our nano's were to old and had to be upgraded to be able to work with *, hence they left a couple of new examples with us at _no_ costs, but they were very reluctent to provide us with new firmware for the couple of dozens nano's we allready have. Odd, not?
But all i really would like to do, is play my own gsm-provider at home, and route voice and sms to my asterisk onto my voip/isdn-provider.
I'll bring one along for further examination. Perhaps i can tell you more about model / current firmware.
Hans
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