Fairwaves

11/05/2017

Want a real high-performance embedded ? Get yourself ready for XTRX:

A high-performance SDR in a mini PCIe form factor

10/24/2016

This is a tree 25km from a village people used to come to to make a call. This is a tower we built to let people make a call from home. 5x cheaper than traditional telcos. Completely solar powered.

10/23/2016

We built a tower and the village got some SIMs.
See how traffic went nuts in a matter of hours after commercial laumch (red "tch" graph).
Did someone say these people can't afford connectivity?

01/15/2016

UmSITE-TM10 going through testing before final assembly and shipping to a customer. Mesmerizing, isn't it?

01/13/2016

A true point:
"A smartphone that lasts for a full week on one charge would do more to accelerate smartphone adoption in emerging markets than Google Loon or Facebook’s Internet.org."

This phone serves a dual communications and power base purpose

10/28/2015

Serving the Underserved with Open Source Mobile Infrastructure:

http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/networking/862895-serving-the-underserved-with-open-source-mobile-infrastructure

Andrew Back shares work being done to bring mobile networking infrastructure to underserved areas of the world. He highlights a project in the...

09/25/2015

Has the Time Arrived for White Boxes in Wireless Infrastructure?

https://fairwaves.co/blog/has-the-time-arrived-for-white-boxes-in-wireless-infrastructure/

(via the blog)

In a post over on the Lime Microsystems blog, Paul Dillien notes how white box and bare metal switches are being used to reduce costs in wired...

07/29/2015

It's now possible to run two fully independent BTS with a single UmTRX or Fairwaves UmSITE.

https://fairwaves.co/blog/multi-bts-with-osmocom-and-a-single-umtrx/

The UmTRX platform that is at the heart of Fairwaves base stations was designed from the outset to have two fully independent transceivers. Since...

06/23/2015

New blog post: UmSITE passes temperature tests with flying colours!

https://fairwaves.co/blog/umsite-passes-temperature-tests-with-flying-colours/

Fairwaves base stations are designed from the outset with harsh environments in mind, benefiting from industrial-grade components and features...

04/16/2015

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2910645/wireless/bad-cell-service-just-start-your-own-telco.html..
Each village deploys its own GSM network with its own base station. They are connected to other villages via VoIP.

All villages can call one another for free and subscribers can roam between the villages.

Patch antennas, located on roof-installed bamboo poles, are used where the base station is not located in the center of the village. That allows for pe*******on into the adobe structures.

GSM spectrum is getting assigned to community use in some places.

04/07/2015

UmSITE successfully passed environmental testing, -40 - +60 degrees Celsium (-40 - +104 Fahrenheit).