Just to make it clear - current "unlicensed" LTE technologies are LTE-U and LAA require an "anchor" channel in a licensed band. I.e. you still can't run it in your home unless you have a license for one other spectrum…
I'm the CEO of Fairwaves (http://fairwaves.co). We work with telcos, mostly in developing countries. But there are also customers who run our tech in indegineous communities in Mexico (https://rhizomatica.org/), on…
There is a hope that 3.5GHz Citizen Band will make it possible for smaller companies to run LTE.
Speaking of UEs (aka LTE modems) - there is an open-source implementation add well. See srsUE and srsLTE.
As mentioned above, half duplex of HackRF would be a limiting factor, unfortunately.
HackRF can't do it, because it's only half-duplex. But there are plenty of full duplex SDR devices - check out UmTRX and USRP B210. We're also developing a really tiny high performance SDR specifically for LTE -…
Yes. Osmocom/OpenBSC actually started as an open-source "network in a box" which implements all critical GSM network elements in a single executable. It greatly expanded since then - check out a list of projects there.…
That's not true. To run a benchtop setup you just need an inexpensive SDR (LimeSDR, UmTRX or B200) and your laptop - that's not "high thousands". If you're deploying networks professionally, then yes - you'll spend…
That's a really good idea, btw
Yeah, we're not as well known as some of the more prominent SDRs out ther. We're mostly targeting professional users and have been mostly focused on figuring out how to get our tech into the real telecom world. Stay…
Disclosure: I'm CEO of Fairwaves. Indeed, hardware is the key. You can't run a GSM base station without a good SDR transceiver attached to your PC. :) In 2009 when we tried to launch OpenBTS with a USRP1 (Osmocom didn't…
CEO of Fairwaves here. Just want to slightly correct here. We indeed started with OpenBTS, but we switched to Osmocom years ago for a variety of reasons including better code quality and proper community development…
The answer is to work with legal spectrum owners (aka cellular carriers), which is what we (https://fairwaves.co) and other in the space are doing. Someone mentioned that building a full networks (or even a full base…
Just to make it clear - current "unlicensed" LTE technologies are LTE-U and LAA require an "anchor" channel in a licensed band. I.e. you still can't run it in your home unless you have a license for one other spectrum…
I'm the CEO of Fairwaves (http://fairwaves.co). We work with telcos, mostly in developing countries. But there are also customers who run our tech in indegineous communities in Mexico (https://rhizomatica.org/), on…
There is a hope that 3.5GHz Citizen Band will make it possible for smaller companies to run LTE.
Speaking of UEs (aka LTE modems) - there is an open-source implementation add well. See srsUE and srsLTE.
As mentioned above, half duplex of HackRF would be a limiting factor, unfortunately.
HackRF can't do it, because it's only half-duplex. But there are plenty of full duplex SDR devices - check out UmTRX and USRP B210. We're also developing a really tiny high performance SDR specifically for LTE -…
Yes. Osmocom/OpenBSC actually started as an open-source "network in a box" which implements all critical GSM network elements in a single executable. It greatly expanded since then - check out a list of projects there.…
That's not true. To run a benchtop setup you just need an inexpensive SDR (LimeSDR, UmTRX or B200) and your laptop - that's not "high thousands". If you're deploying networks professionally, then yes - you'll spend…
That's a really good idea, btw
Yeah, we're not as well known as some of the more prominent SDRs out ther. We're mostly targeting professional users and have been mostly focused on figuring out how to get our tech into the real telecom world. Stay…
Disclosure: I'm CEO of Fairwaves. Indeed, hardware is the key. You can't run a GSM base station without a good SDR transceiver attached to your PC. :) In 2009 when we tried to launch OpenBTS with a USRP1 (Osmocom didn't…
CEO of Fairwaves here. Just want to slightly correct here. We indeed started with OpenBTS, but we switched to Osmocom years ago for a variety of reasons including better code quality and proper community development…
The answer is to work with legal spectrum owners (aka cellular carriers), which is what we (https://fairwaves.co) and other in the space are doing. Someone mentioned that building a full networks (or even a full base…