Fwd: Can open BTS run on RasPi?

GNU Radio
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Hi,
I just watched a video on this link:

They say they have ported OpenBTS and GR to RasPi and they could make
phone
calls between 2 mobile phones.

Is that even possible?

Is RasPi strong enough for handling that kind of data?

I am very curious to hear your comments on this,

BR,
Farhad

2

HI Andrew,
Thanks, I will ask the question on OpenBTS, I thought that OpenBTS was a
layer on top of the GR, thanks for correcting me.

BR,
Farhad

3

Hi Farhad,

On 29 July 2013 13:04, Farhad A. [email protected]
wrote:

Hi,
I just watched a video on this link:
- YouTube

They say they have ported OpenBTS and GR to RasPi and they could make phone
calls between 2 mobile phones.

Is that even possible?

I don’t see why they would lie.

Is RasPi strong enough for handling that kind of data?

It would seem that it is possible to make something work, but as far
as I’m aware it’s not practical/useful, unless perhaps there were
OpenCL support for RasPi and you could rewrite parts of OpenBTS to
make use of the GPU.

In any case, the host is just a small part of the hardware costs and
it would be better to run OpenBTS on something more capable.

I am very curious to hear your comments on this,

You are aware that OpenBTS and GNU Radio are different codebases? I’d
suggest posting questions such as this to the OpenBTS discuss list:

OpenBTS Mailing Lists

Cheers,

Andrew

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Andrew B.
http://carrierdetect.com