sysmocom announces the availability of a starter kit to enable an easy jump start into testing and developing 3G applications. The well known open NITB has been upgraded to 3G (aka UMTS or WCDMA) network. It now hosts hNodeB-Gateway, MSC/VLR and HLR, SGSN and GGSN but remains a simple "full network in one box" system. This makes the setup of a self-contained 3G network a snap and you can invest the resulting time savings in your research and development work.

To get more information about the sysmo NITB 3.5G starter kit LE, please visit the product page

The Osmocom project has just provided some updates regarding Osmocom Conference 2017:

• The Schedule, full of exciting talks (Abstracts available here)
• Travel Grants to enable community members to attend who could not otherwise attend
• Details on the Social Event

OsmoCon 2017 is held on April 21st, 2017 and is the first technical conference for Osmocom users, operators and developers.

sysmocom is happy to provide organizational and administrative support for OsmoCon 2017. You can get your OsmoCon 2017 ticket at the sysmocom webshop.

OsmoCon (Osmocom Conference) 2017 is the first technical conference for Osmocom users, operators and developers!

For the first time ever, the Osmocom Conference brings together users, operators and developers of the Osmocom Open Source cellular infrastructure projects, such as OsmoBTS, OsmoBSC, OsmoSGSN, OpenGGSN and others.

OsmoCon 2017 is your opportunity to deepen your understanding of Osmocom technology and to meet other people in and around the Osmocom Ecosystem.

Join us for a day of presentations and discussions with the main developers behind Open Source Mobile Communications, as well as commercial and non-profit users of the Osmocom cellular infrastructure software.

Find more information on Osmocom.

In 2016, Osmocom gained initial 3.5G support. This means you can run your own small open source 3.5G cellular network for SMS, Voice and Data services. However, the project needs more contributors: Become an active member in the Osmocom development community and get your nano3G femtocell for free. We hereby issue a call for proposals to the general public. Let us know how you would help us improving the Osmocom project if you were to receive one of those free femtocells.

nano3G femotcell

We will setup a dedicated community where all developers of the 3.5g acceleration project can share their experiences and will receive dedicated support of the Osmocom team. For this exciting project, sysmocom - one of the main drivers of the Osmocom project - will provide 50 nano3G femtocells for free, each with 5 SIM cards for an easy start. The call for proposals end is extended until 15th of February 2017. The selected developers will be announced on February 27.

Read the announcement.

For many years, we have been offering SIM/USIM cards alongside our cellular network infrastructure product. After all, of what use is a small, private GSM/GPRS/EDGE or now UMTS network without your own SIM cards.

sysmocom SIM/USIM cards

The customers of our SIM/USIM cards have traditionally been cutsomers of our cellular infrastructure products, and there was little requirement to provide any type of documentation or support for the cards themselves.

However, more recently, quite a number of customers are using our cards also with other cellular network infrastructure implementations, and hence are asking about more information for the cards.

We are happy to respond to this with the newly-created sysmoUSIM User Manual which includes some generic introduction to SIM/USIM cards, a full reference list of the specifications our cards comply with, as well as some examples on how to use the Osmocom utilities to test and/or re-provision the cards.

Today, sysmocom GmbH announces the public availability of a set of freely available user manuals for a range of Osmocom software projects for operation of Free Software based cellular networks.

The Osmocom projects themselves do not provide a lot of documentation, and the sysmocom-created user manuals had so far been available only to customers of sysmocom GmbH.

"We expect that the availability of free public user manuals will simplify the configuration, deployment and operation of Free Software based cellular networks world-wide." says Harald Welte, Managing Director of sysmocom GmbH.

The release includes user manuals and VTY command line reference manuals for the OpenBSC flavors OsmoBSC and OsmoNITB, as well as OsmoBTS, OsmoPCU, OsmoNITB and OsmoSGSN. Both PDF versions as well as the asciidoc source code is made available under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

The PDF renderings of the latest version of the manuals are available from http://ftp.osmocom.org/docs/latest/, while the asciidoc source code is available from http://git.osmocom.org/osmo-gsm-manuals/

Osmocom (http://osmocom.org/) is a vendor-neutral, collaborative effort to create and maintain Open Source implementations of mobile communications protocol stacks and network elements. It was originally created by Harald Welte in 2010, when the OpenBSC project was joined by more sister projects related to Open Source Mobile Communications.

sysmocom GmbH (http://sysmocom.de/) is a Berlin (Germany) based business offering custom tailored cellular infrastructure and testing solutions. It was founded by two of the original developers of OpenBSC, and is a major contributor to many of the Osmocom software projects.