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3 | 6 | laforge | h1. Ericsson RBS 2000 |
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6 | There is some initial/experimental code in [[OpenBSC]] to support the Ericsson RBS 2000 family of BTS. |
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8 | 1 | laforge | As opposed to Siemens/ip.access, Ericsson A-bis is much farther away from the specs, particularly |
9 | since their Organization and Maintenance Layer (OML) is a proprietary protocol called OM2000. |
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11 | Nonetheless, we have been making quite a bit of progress in getting the RBS 2000 series supported. |
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12 | Right now it is still not complete. Don't expect anything to work at this stage. |
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14 | 6 | laforge | We are collecting links to documents describing the Ericsson RBS architecture at [[RBS_Links]] |
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16 | 6 | laforge | h2. Requirements |
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19 | 6 | laforge | * Ericsson RBS 2000 series BTS |
20 | * E1 or T1 interface card, supported by the [[DAHDI]] driver. WE DO NOT SUPPORT RBS with mISDN drivers! |
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21 | * RBS with software + IDB in default configuration, especially OML TEI set to 62 |
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22 | * /etc/dahdi/system.conf with "dslot=1,4" in it |
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25 | 6 | laforge | h2. Setup |
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28 | * Check that dahdi_tool is showing the link as OK, otherwise you have some wiring/polarity issues |
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29 | * Create an openbsc.cfg that lists your BTS as 'rbs2000' type (see attached example) |
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30 | ** do not try to be clever and use non-standard E1 timeslot assignments, the code is hard-coded and assumes certain values |
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31 | * start [[osmo-nitb]] as usual |
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32 | 9 | dexter | * OM2000 messages can be decoded with Wireshark, set the following options: |
33 | 10 | dexter | ** Right-Click on Link Access Procedure, Channel D (LAPD) ==> Protocol Preferences ==> Use GSM SAPI values |
34 | ** Right-Click on GSM A-bis OML ==> Protocol Preferences ==> A-bis dialect to be used ==> Ericsson OM2000 |
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36 | h2. Status |
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39 | 1 | laforge | So far, you should get |
40 | 6 | laforge | * A-bis link initialization, i.e. BSC telling the BTS to use TS1 as signalling for IXU/DXU OML |
41 | * [[OpenBSC]] configuring and starting the CF (central function) |
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42 | * You can manually connect, configure and enable the IS via the VTY |
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43 | * With some luck, the OML SAPI to the RRU/TRU's can then be established |
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44 | * Using the '-p foo.pcap' option, you can write a PCAP protocol trace to be used with wireshark and our OM2000 wireshark dissector |
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46 | What is NOT supported yet: |
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47 | 6 | laforge | * Actually initializing the transceivers and Um timeslots |
48 | * Any actual communication with phones |
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49 | 7 | laforge | * Any form of GPRS. This requires us to implement a PCU compatible with the Ericsson PCU-CCU A-bis protocol. See [[Ericsson_RBS2000_GPRS]] for some collected information on this topic. |