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diff --git a/2016/netdevconf-osmocom/abstract.txt b/2016/netdevconf-osmocom/abstract.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12be02e --- /dev/null +++ b/2016/netdevconf-osmocom/abstract.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Running Cellular Network Infrastructure on Linux + +Traditionally, much unlike the Ethernet/IP network, classic telecom +infrastructure has been running proprietary hardware, operating systems +and protocol stacks. + +In recent years, some Free Software projects have set out to implement +some of the related protocol stacks and network elements on top of +Linux, including the unrelated OpenBTS and OpenBSC projects, as well as +the less known other members of the Osmocom umbrella project: OsmoBSC, +OsmoNITB, OsmoBTS, OsmoPCU, OsmoSGSN, OpenGGSN, and many more. + +As signalling protocols tend to be complex and in many use cases the +signalling performance is not super critical, those projects primarily +implement the protocol stacks and network interfaces in user-space. + +This presentation will cover an overview of the many different projects +out there, which of the cellular network elements they implement. |