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Open interface specifications published
The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative has completed its product compliance test documentation for the OBSAI open interface specifications.
The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) has completed its product compliance test documentation for the OBSAI open interface specifications The documentation contains a full set of compliance test procedures, specifications and test cases to cover all the essential modules and interfaces of the current OBSAI specifications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Companies can use the test specifications in their own test facilities or in independent test laboratories.
The provision of test specifications is a key benefit of the OBSAI standards initiative and allows operators to have confidence that products from different manufacturers, working to the OBSAI standards, have been tested for interoperability.
OBSAI has also shown how versatile the OBSAI open interface specifications are through the completion of work on the integration of WiMAX technology into the baseband/RF interface specifications.
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One of the chief benefits of OBSAI's specifications is that they are air interface agnostic and are compatible with WCDMA, CDMA, GSM and GSM/Edge technologies.
The vast superiority of the OBSAI BTS architecture made it very simple to add WiMAX to the RP3 interface.
John S Csapo, OBSAI Management Board, said: "OBSAI has achieved a first in the industry by creating these specifications by using our expert members across the BTS, component and module vendor domains".
"True interoperability and a horizontal mode of operation are getting closer and closer".
"In fact, the first OBSAI components already meet the requirements of the OBSAI specifications".
He continued: "OBSAI is the only basestation initiative to have built a robust set of interface specifications for key parts of the basestation subsystem that can be used with GSM/Edge, CDMA and WCDMA air interface applications".
"The OBSAI BTS architecture enables less complex designs to be realised for single or multimode basestations supporting GSM, GSM/Edge, CDMA, WCDMA and WiMAX".
Available now to OBSAI members are: test specifications and procedural documents; all versions of the interface specifications related to the control, transport, baseband and radio areas of the basestation (identified as RP1, RP2 and RP3-including remote RF head) together with a system reference document; and module specifications related to the mechanics and functionality aspects of key modules, transport, baseband and control.
The first versions of interface specifications related to the control, transport, baseband and radio areas of the basestation (identified as RP1, RP2 and RP3) are also available to the public, together with a system reference document.
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