nRF91 with R&S BTS(Bast Station Simulator)

RE: nRF91 with R&S BTS(Bast Station Simulator)

Håkon Alseth — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:12:03 GMT

Hi KK,

[quote userid="78215" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/58566/nrf91-with-r-s-bts-bast-station-simulator/243013"]Can you please name other simulator you use?[/quote]

We mainly use the R&S CMW500, so I'm unable to give advice on other solutions, unfortunately. We haven't looked deep into using other SDR boxes / hardware yet, but there are promising solutions out there. I would recommend that you contact companies that provide such services, and have support for LTE-M1 and NB-IoT, and ask them for a quote.

Standalone SDR hardware would require such software as openair-cn + openairinterface5g (or other lte eNB software solutions), which isn't straight-forward to setup manually.

Best regards,

Håkon

RE: nRF91 with R&S BTS(Bast Station Simulator)

kk2mkk — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 14:44:39 GMT

[quote userid="66115" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/58566/nrf91-with-r-s-bts-bast-station-simulator/237973"]different kinds of base station simulators[/quote]

Martin - Can you please name other simulator you use? we are looking to buy a SDR box like (PICO BTS, AMARI Callbox etc..) which are of lowcost and scalable, if you can name one which you been using that gives me confidence to make a procurement, and the CMW call box which i use is bit expensive and it doesn't support multiple UEs.

CMW is good for RF related testing not for application end.

thanks in advance

regards

RE: nRF91 with R&S BTS(Bast Station Simulator)

kk2mkk — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 14:28:06 GMT

Thanks for the documentation

RE: nRF91 with R&S BTS(Bast Station Simulator)

Martin Lesund — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:47:06 GMT

Using nRF9160 against R&S CMW500 (or CMW290) in signalling callbox mode

RE: nRF91 with R&S BTS(Bast Station Simulator)

kk2mkk — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:54:23 GMT

thanks, let try and come back

RE: nRF91 with R&S BTS(Bast Station Simulator)

Martin Lesund — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 09:43:35 GMT

Hi KK,

Yes, we do tests with the nRF9160 different kinds of base station simulators and also the CMW500.
If you have the Data Application Unit (DAU) on your CMW500 you can set up your own servers e.g. an HTTP server and then set up your own IP-subnet which you can connect to with the nrf9160.
You would need to modify the HTTP sample to be able to connect to your server.

Please check out the FOTA download documentation.