ABIS over IuB SCTP

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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.org
Sat Jun 2 12:49:53 UTC 2018


Hi Borjan,

On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 02:15:38PM +0200, Borjan Jovanovski wrote:

> my device is a multimode device BTS NodeB and eNodeB 2G + 3G + 4G and
> uses SCTP protocol for BSC RNC and MME connection

Can you tell us more about that device?

> ... but i couldn't get OpenBSC to work with abis over sctp. So my final question is:
> How to handle Abis over SCTP with OpenBSC.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no 3GPP specification for Abis over SCTP.

As such, it's not a surprise that we're not implementing it in OsmoBSC :)
Maybe I missed something.  Can you please point me to relevant
specification for this Abis dialect?

I would assume it's some vendor-specific dialect.  Do you have protocol-level
documentation for that available?  Do you have protocol traces of this dialect?

In any case, even with documentation and/or traces, you would need to
develop the respective code to interface this new Abis
dialect/encapsulation.  The required effort depends on how far that
dialect diverges from the existing "known" dialects/formats.  If it's
just 08.58 RSL and 12.21 OML inside SCTP, then it should be rather
little effort.  But that's a big "if" :)

Regards,
	Harald
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