OpenBSC with A-interface

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Dmitri Soloviev dmi3sol at gmail.com
Sat Sep 7 20:33:04 UTC 2013


Hi Harald


Thank you for a letter.


as for intra-BSC handover, there could be 2 ways:
- process them as inter-BSC. I'm pretty sure that in 2003 ip.access
followed this way, as both nanoBTS involved were connected to a single BSC,
and it was a gateway that processed handover
- use osmo-bsc_mgcp as it was originally desired
It doesn't make much difference: minor changes in transcoder control, as
MGCP logic was just reduced.
Meantime if the second way is chosen, I'll face the old problem again: I
could not get how the endpoint from BTS is delivered to osmo-bsc_mgcp, and
why it is lost in the particular deployment


I'll appreciate your vision of codec management: reasons for keeping it at
BSC side (and some key/example how to configure them), or permission to
reduce this logic.
If there is a demand to interact with a particular inflexible MSC, I would
offer to filter out unsupported codecs in assignment procedure, keeping a
single control point/decision maker


Best Regards,
Dmitri








On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> wrote:

> Hi Dmitry,
>
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:46:09PM +0400, Dmitri Soloviev wrote:
> > in fact, last night I did a hack, and it started to work
> > http://www.opensigtran.org/bsc.html
>
> congratulations!  Thanks for your effort.
>
> > I'm doing without osmo-bsc_mgcp at all: after a chanel is being opened,
> my
> > transcoder just replies the first rtp from bts and keeps this address as
> > endpoint.
>
> Do you already have a plan for dealing with intra-bsc hand-over in this
> case?  The advantage of having different RTP IP/Port on the A and the
> A-bis side is that the BTS can change due to intra-BTS or intra-BSC
> hand-over, while on the A interface everything remains stable/unchanged.
>
> > 1) in my case, OpenBSC makes BTS to talk to a predictable port at
> transcoder
>
> See my comment above.  I'm not sure if this is the best solution moving
> forward...
>
> > 2) I could not guess your reasons (as well as ways) to configure voice
> > codecs within BSC, and hardcoded them within bssap_handleassingm_req()
>
> I'll let holger comment on that.  My guess is that the MSC that was used
> didn't have enough flexibility in configuring the codecs so we override
> it in the BSC.
>
> > Hope to prepare a proper letter it in about a week
>
> Looking forard to it!
>
> Regards,
>         Harald
> --
> - Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>
> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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