BS-11 for Sale?! Other Hardware besides NanoBTS?

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Stuart Baggs stuart at bluewave.im
Tue Oct 12 15:21:33 UTC 2010


To advise the group, we have a quantity of nanoBTS 1800 GPRS capable units still available. We have sold other to group members and would be happy to email photos and references across. This is more of a helpful hunt than an advert so please feel free to ignore.

Kind Regards 

Stuart

On 12 Oct 2010, at 14:49, Harald Welte wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:01:14PM +0100, luca bongiorni wrote:
> 
>> i wanted only to know if you know some "used", "cheap" hardware like BS-11 to
>> buy and start to work on it.
> 
> I think getting GSM-R BTS equipment is more difficult than regular GSM BTS
> equipment.  If you want to play with GSM-R from the network side, your  best
> option might be to implement the NCH and ASCI support inside OpenBTS.
> 
>> From the telephone side, you can simply use OsmocomBB. It can use a standard
> GSM handset like the Motorola C123 and talk to GSM-R BTSs.  Of course you still
> need to implement the GSM-R specific features on layer 3 like ASCI.
> 
> In both cases I think the hardware is there for whoever has a serious interest in
> experimenting with this technology, and who is not afraid to implement the GSM-R
> specific bits.
> 
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