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Re: [dispatch] SIP and GSM/UMTS with OpenBTS

Tim Panton new <thp@westhawk.co.uk> Fri, 07 February 2014 12:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dispatch] SIP and GSM/UMTS with OpenBTS
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On 6 Feb 2014, at 02:39, Michael Hammer <michael.hammer@yaanatech.com> wrote:

> Interesting.  But, the 4G/LTE network is an IP internet of sorts.
> The SIP/IMS components do not need to be in the radio network, 
> and thus not at the locations where the power is constrained.

One of the nice properties of an openBTS install in a remote location is that it
can still function as a local 'pbx' at times when the internet link is down. This turns out to 
be fabulously useful in a crisis. If you delegate all the logic out to a cloud service that stops being true.

Tim.

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