Hi Benjamin, long time no see :)
Any plan to have a demo of OpenBTS for this FOSDEM?
I don't think so. Nobody applied for a license AFAIK and it's not far too late for this (the ibpt takes like 1.5 month to process a STA request).
If money is a problem, I could try to find sponsors for that.
Well, money is not the only problem. I'm not that interested in just providing a 'small' demo at a stand or something. OTOH, Running a live, usable network all over the FOSDEM ground, that's interesting. But to provide such a meaningful test network, you need equipement ... that I just don't have. Especially since OpenBSC and OpenBTS network are incompatible at the moment. (can't interact at a GSM level) And borrowing it from people not coming themselves to fosdem ist just inconvenient (shipping / responsability for the equipement / ...) There is also the issue of insurance. I mean all theses things (BTS/USRP) cost _a_lot_ and I would not risk them without proper assurance against stealing/damage. Even if 99.9 % of the people fosdem are responsible nice people, it only takes one ... (and that's not even counting outsiders that are not there for the fosdem). Now it's not _totally_ without hope for the future: - People are working on BTS side of A-Bis so plugging openbts in openbsc might become possible - Support for cheaper GSM microBTS is in the works (still 1kEUR ...) - Support for 3G femtocell is in the works (albeit more far off ...) (theses are much cheaper ~ 100-200 eur) - Converting phone to BTS (very far off as well, but we're hoping :) Cheers, Sylvain