Bug#806584: ITP: osmo-bts -- Layer2/3 of a GSM Base Transceiver Station (BTS)

[Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com>

* Package name    : osmo-bts
  Version         : 0.4.0
  Upstream Author : Osmocom
* URL             : http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/OsmoBTS
* License         : AGPL-3
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Layer2/3 of a GSM Base Transceiver Station (BTS)

OsmoBTS is a software implementation of Layer2/3 of a GSM Base Transceiver
Station (BTS). It implements the follwing protocols/interfaces:

 - LAPDm (GSM 04.06)
 - RTP
 - A-bis/IP in IPA multiplex
 - OML (GSM TS 12.21)
 - RSL (GSM TS 08.58) 


OsmoBTS is modular and has support for multiple back-ends. A back-end talks to
a specific L1/PHY implementation of the respective BTS hardware. Based on this
architecture, it should be relatively easy to add a new back-end to support
so-far unsupported GSM PHY/L1 and associated hardware.

So far OsmoBTS has been integrated with several different L1/PHY and hardware
systems. The backends are:

 - osmo-bts-sysmo
     Multiple indoor and outdoor BTS products called sysmoBTS
 - osmo-bts-trx
     Wideband SDR transceiver hardware supported by OpenBTS transceiver or
     [OsmoTRX] PHY layer software
 -  osmo-bts-bb
     A pretty crazy experimental BTS hardware based on two OsmocomBB phones
     had originally been supported, but needs to be re-integrated with core code
     changes. 


I plan to maintain it as part of the Debian Science team just as other OpenBSC
related packages.