New open hardware for OpenBTS

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Ashwin Mansinghka ashwin.lists at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 15:05:06 UTC 2011


Hi,

What is the Tx power being aimed for 1W & 5W or more ?

with Regards,
Ashwin

On Thursday 08 September 2011 10:08 PM, Alexander Chemeris 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!
>

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