[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and picoCell GSM Base Stations

[Simon Anderson]

picoCell/microCell/nanoCell Base stations are low powered GSM nodes
designed for indoor or small area GSM coverage. Their transmission power
is low enough to meet the legal restrictions of many countries.

Here are two examples; 

http://www.rivanetworks.com/nano/nano.htm
http://www.ipaccess.com/ipaccess_pages2/bts2.html

Both of these Base Stations have an RJ-45 in order to do Ethernet on the
back end; GSM in, IP out.

I wonder if anyone has experience interfacing one of these or a similar
product with Asterisk?

I also wonder if Digium has any plans to supply PCI cards which provide
similar functionality?

The prospect of recycling old cell phones for use as Asterisk extensions
is extremely attractive.

Cellular phone ---GSM---> picoCell ---IP---> Asterisk

Regards,
Simon.