| Harald Welte | c1fd70a | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | About OpenBSC |
| 2 | ============= |
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| Harald Welte | 9c201c3 | 2010-03-09 12:38:31 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | OpenBSC is a minimalistic implementation of the GSM Network, with |
| 5 | particular emphasis on the functionality typically provided by the BSC, |
| 6 | MSC, HLR, VLR and SMSC. |
| Harald Welte | c1fd70a | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | |
| Harald Welte | 9c201c3 | 2010-03-09 12:38:31 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | Its currently supported interfaces towards the BTS are: |
| Harald Welte | c1fd70a | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
| Harald Welte | 9c201c3 | 2010-03-09 12:38:31 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | * Classic A-bis over E1 using a mISDN based E1 interface. In other |
| 11 | words, you can connect existing GSM Base Transceiver Station (BTS) |
| 12 | through E1 to OpenBSC. So far, we have only tested the Siemens BS-11 |
| 13 | Test reports with other BTS are much appreciated! |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * A-bis over IP as used by the ip.access nanoBTS product family |
| Harald Welte | c1fd70a | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | |
| Harald Welte | 93ab0c3 | 2010-05-04 08:10:18 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | You can find the project documentation at http://openbsc.gnumonks.org/ |
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| Harald Welte | c1fd70a | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | This project is still in its early days, and there are lots of areas where it |
| 20 | doesn't behave as per GSM spec. |
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| Harald Welte | c1fd70a | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> |
| Harald Welte | 9c201c3 | 2010-03-09 12:38:31 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | |
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| 25 | libosmocore |
| 26 | =========== |
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| 28 | Please note that as of March 2010, OpenBSC has a dependency to a library |
| 29 | called "libosmocore". You can obtain that library from |
| 30 | |
| 31 | git://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore.git |
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