| Harald Welte | d94ee1e | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | About OpenBSC |
| 2 | ============= |
| 3 | |
| Harald Welte | 3f015f0 | 2015-12-05 23:13:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 4 | OpenBSC started as a minimalistic all-in-one implementation of the GSM Network, |
| 5 | with particular emphasis on the functionality typically provided by the BSC, |
| 6 | MSC, HLR, VLR and SMSC. Today it is a growing suite of libraries and programs, |
| 7 | implementing protocol stacks and functional elements, including |
| Harald Welte | d94ee1e | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
| Harald Welte | 3f015f0 | 2015-12-05 23:13:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 9 | * OsmoBSC - a pure GSM BSC, speaking Abis/IP to the BTS and A/IP to the MSC |
| 10 | * OsmoBSC-MGCP - MGCP helper to the OsmoBSC software |
| 11 | * OsmoNITB - a BTS+MSC+VLR+HLR+SMSC "Network in the box". |
| 12 | * OsmoSGSN - a GPRS SGSN with Gb interface over IP towards the PCU |
| 13 | * Osmo-GbProxy - a Proxy to aggregate many Gb links as one Gb link to the SGSN |
| 14 | * OsmoBSCNAT - a gateay aggregating many A links as one A link to the MSC |
| 15 | * OsmoGTPHUB - a hub aggregating many GTP links (between SGSN and GGSN) |
| 16 | * ipaccess-utils - some tools to discover + configure ip.access nanoBTS |
| 17 | * bs11_config - a tool to configure the Siemens BS-11 microBTS |
| 18 | |
| 19 | The currently supported interfaces towards the BTS are: |
| Harald Welte | d94ee1e | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
| Harald Welte | 61b4232 | 2010-03-09 12:38:31 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | * Classic A-bis over E1 using a mISDN based E1 interface. In other |
| 22 | words, you can connect existing GSM Base Transceiver Station (BTS) |
| Harald Welte | 3f015f0 | 2015-12-05 23:13:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 23 | through E1 to OpenBSC. So far, we have made it work with the Siemens BS-11, |
| 24 | various Ericsson RBS2xxx BTS models and the Nokia MetroSite. |
| Harald Welte | 61b4232 | 2010-03-09 12:38:31 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
| Harald Welte | 3f015f0 | 2015-12-05 23:13:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 26 | * A-bis over IP as used by the ip.access nanoBTS product family as well as |
| 27 | the Open Source OsmoBTS software (by the same authors as OpenBSC). OsmoBTS |
| 28 | in turn supports various transceiver hardware, including the sysmoBTS |
| 29 | product family, as well as SDR transceivers supported by OsmoTRX, such as |
| 30 | the UmTRX or USRP boardss. |
| Harald Welte | d94ee1e | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | |
| Harald Welte | 3f015f0 | 2015-12-05 23:13:35 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 32 | You can find some unfortunately relatively unmaintained project documentation at |
| 33 | http://openbsc.gnumonks.org/ |
| Harald Welte | d94ee1e | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | |
| Harald Welte | d94ee1e | 2008-12-29 04:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> |