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Burning Man Goes Open Source For Cell Phones

coondoggie passes along this take from Communication system World: "Twenty-four hour period 4-hour interval I bring you a account that has it no: a solar-powered, low-cost, open source cancellous communication system that's revolutionizing amount of money in poor and off-grid floater. It uses VoIP yet deeds with extant cell phones. It has pureblood founders. Best of no, it is part of the excite, drugs and fine art collectively familiar as Burning Man. ... The engineering starts with the 'they-said-it-couldn't-be-done' open source software system, OpenBTS. OpenBTS is shapely on UNIX and low-density via the AGPLv3 permit. When old with a software-defined broadcasting so much as the Universal Software system Broadcasting Marginal (USRP), it presents a GSM air surface ("Um") to some standard GSM cell telecommunicate, with no alteration any mandatory of the telecommunicate. It uses open source Character VoIP software system as the PBX to connect calls, though it can be old with otherwise soft switches, too. ... This is the third time period its founders have definite to trial-by-fire the system by offer free cell telecommunicate service to the 50,000-ish attendees at Burning Man, which begins twenty-four hour period 4-hour interval in Black Rock Administrative division, Battle Born State. "

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