[asterisk-users] OpenBTS chat with David A. Burgess

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 09:39:47AM +0100, randulo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "The OpenBTS Project is an effort to construct an open-source Unix
> application that uses the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)
> to present a GSM air interface ("Um") to standard GSM handset and uses
> the Asterisk software PBX to connect calls. The combination of the
> ubiquitous GSM air interface with VoIP backhaul could form the basis
> of a new type of cellular network that could be deployed and operated
> at substantially lower cost than existing technologies in greenfields
> in the developing world. "
> 
> Last Friday, the VoIP Users Conference had David A. Burgess as our
> guest for an hour of discussion of one of his projects, OpenBTS
> (http://openbts.sourceforge.net/) which uses asterisk as a backend for
> the GSM network.

See also http://lwn.net/Articles/320163 . Patents hit them really badly.

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