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On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Harald Welte <laforge(a)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
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