Mobile Industry Review - Latest Comments in Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

Re: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

artesea — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:14:40 -0000

Was it possible to set your own network name like "Garfone". All I could see was the 00104.

Re: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

Guest — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:06:55 -0000

I WANT ONE. OR TWO

Re: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

Mike42 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:05:57 -0000

"Radio waves should be free, man."

No they bloody shouldn't! That's VC talk there. Standards, properly co-ordinated and managed, are it, man. This is the RF equilvalent of saying that IP should be free - We don't need that pesky IPv4/ICANN system. Free the Bits!

Proponents of free RF favour the 'Detect and Avoid' mechanism, relying on ultra/fast and sensitive detectors to sense when spectrum is in use by others. Nice idea, but there are fundamental flaws in this logic when operating at the noise floor, as CDMA systems do.

We've seen what 'Free' radio waves delivers - Any Blyk subscribers out there?

Funnily enough, I like call quality. I like 5 9's of reliability. I have no desire to bring the wonderful end-user experience that is WiFi RF "management" to the voice/sms world.

You'll be telling me mesh networks are viable next!

Re: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

Mike42 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:59:12 -0000

It's the red velour chair / throne thing....

Re: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

Kirk Bateman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:16:17 -0000

Yup complete agreement here ... if we can figure out the prices I'm sure the usual crowd (and the prom queen) could knock something together that works. Sounds like a good bit of fun too...

Re: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

jamesbody — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:28:22 -0000

Well - if you want your own setup - but do not want to pay the GBP 20 price tag, then there is always the wonderful OpenBTS projecy - see Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Of course you will still have to find someone with some spectrum to 'borrow' - but the thought of 'Community owned' GSM is one that really appeals to me - particularly as I live in a rural village in a valley in SW Wiltshire where GSM just does not reach (an the MNOs appear relctant to provide coverage).

Re: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

Ben Smith — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:19:44 -0000

Jay Fenton for King!

or president

or prom queen

just give the man a medal... dammit.

Re: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

TerenceEden — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:13:00 -0000

Brilliant review :-)

When you roamed your T-Mobile SIM on to the network, were you able to receive calls on it? If so, who is getting the roaming interconnect revenue that you'd pay? I guess that making calls wouldn't cost roaming charges?

I wonder why the software isn't wholly Linux? If it really needs to run some Windows software, why not use WINE or run Windows as the virtual machine? Slightly odd.

It would seem to me that the perfect addition to this would be a satellite phone. OK, you can plug it into a LAN or phone jack - but there aren't many of those in the middle of the jungle.

Finally, "No user serviceable parts"? That sounds like a challenge to me. Get some torx and crack it open!

Re: Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)

Kirk Bateman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:02:46 -0000

Excellent review Jay.

Having had a few comments with J, it looks like a lot of the issues could be resolved by moving to a linux only solution, SMSC software is relatively available these days and using only linux would probably cut the cost by somewhere around £2k - £5k I suspect, also it could possibly resolve the heating / cooling issues.

Just my thoughts... nice piece of kit though ... wouldn't mind one myself (make it open source and I'll do the mods too :)