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categories: ["Datengarten"]
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tags: ["Mobilfunk", "GSM", "LTE"]
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series: "Datengarten"
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title: "Datengarten 102"
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no: 102
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subtitle: "Commercial Cellular Base Station Technology"
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speaker: "Harald \"LaF0rge\" Welte"
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date: 2019-09-04T16:23:00+02:00
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event:
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start: 2019-09-10T20:00:00+02:00
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end: 2019-09-10T22:00:00+02:00
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location: CCCB
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language: en
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streaming: true
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recording: https://media.ccc.de/v/dg-102
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---
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In today's hyper-connected society, everyone constantly uses their smartphone,
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which in turn uses the commercial cellular networks (from 2G/GSM to 4G/LTE)
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in order to achieve connectivity. However, contrary to WiFi technology, even
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most technology-minded people don't have much of an idea how the infrastructure
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behind those cellular networks looks like.
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This talk does not cover the architecture and protocols of underlying
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cellular systems, but focuses on the physical side of things:
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* what are the typical components of cellular base stations?
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* what are their key functionalities?
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* how did cellular base station technology evolve during the past 20 years?
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* how do we expect cellular base stations to change in the [near] future?
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We will not cover DIY or hobbyist projects here, but the actual technology deployed
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in the field by real-world commercial operators.
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#### About the speaker
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Harald Welte is a CCC member since the 1990ies, developing Free Software
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for more than 20 years, has a prior life as Linux Kernel developer. He has
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founded the [Osmocom project](https://osmocom.org/) about 10 years ago
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and focused his life on implementing cellular protocols, interfaces and
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network elements as Free Software.
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