[Openbts-discuss] New open hardware for OpenBTS

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Alexander Chemeris alexander.chemeris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 17:29:10 UTC 2011


Kurtis,

I will. And thank you for your interest.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 21:17, Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> This is awesome Alexander. Please keep the list (and me personally)
> informed, I'd love to help in whatever context I can.
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Alexander Chemeris
> <alexander.chemeris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, (and sorry to those who receive this twice)
>>
>> At Sept 15th I will speak at the Open Hardware Summit at the breakout
>> session "Open Hardware in Voice Telecommunications" and there I will
>> present Fairwaves project to create an open hardware transceiver for
>> OpenBTS. Someone may recall I proposed similar project about 1.5 years
>> ago, but then abandoned due to lack of interest from the community.
>> Now it was revived on a new level, thanks to financial and
>> motivational support from Jean-Samuel Najnudel of BJT Partners SARL.
>> As an experiment this project will be completely open-sourced in an
>> open-source hardware way.
>>
>> Project is in active development, so just to give you an idea of what
>> we're aiming:
>>  * Targeted for rural installations.
>>  * CAPEX and OPEX optimized.
>>  * 2 TRX per sector. Each TRX connected to its own antenna with its
>> own saturated (=cheap) power amplifier on Tx side. On Rx side both
>> antennas are used to provide diversity receive.
>>  * Reference clock synchronized to GPS for accurate timing.
>>  * Based on USRP N200, but with Xilinx Spartan 6 and LimeMicro
>> LMS6002D. Which means it's actually design is much more capable then
>> just GSM.
>>
>> More details, web-site, schematics, etc will be available after OHS.
>> First samples of the hardware we hope to have at the end of this year.
>>
>> If you're going to OHS - come to our breakout session to discuss the
>> project and share your ideas!
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Alexander Chemeris.
>>
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Alexander Chemeris.




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