Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP)

Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP) is a method of managing and provisioning SIM cards remotely without the need for physical interaction. This enables mobile operators to remotely activate and configure SIM cards, and manage subscriber data such as phone numbers, services, and preferences.

OpenRAN on AWS

Earlier this week, I read an interesting whitepaper from AWS about how public cloud providers are moving to 5G and optimizing their services to gain more market share. AWS in this whitepaper covers OpenRAN as one of these technologies, providing useful hints about new services around 5G SA networks. This whitepaper is a technical guide that describes the architecture and best practices for deploying OpenRAN solutions on the AWS cloud. The paper begins by providing an overview of OpenRAN and its key components, including the vRAN (virtual RAN) and CU (central unit), as well as the O-RAN (OpenRAN) Alliance and its goals.

Docker Compose With Podman

Podman is a container engine that enables users to manage OCI-compliant containers on Linux systems without the need for a daemon. It is popular among users as an alternative to Docker due to its ease of adoption. However, the lack of support for Docker Compose, a command-line tool that coordinates multiple Docker containers for local development, has been a major concern for many users and the container community. Podman starts to support docker-compose from version 3.0 but changes in docker-compose from version 2.0 made some incompatibilities, so a community project called Podman Compose has been born. Podman Compose processes the Compose spec and translates it into Podman CLI commands [1].

Hep Protocol and Homer

Capturing telecom protocols or traffic for various purposes is a topic that has been discussed for a long time and always has been done with different tools or through some vendors.

One of the tools that help to capture protocols, especially SIP, is Homer. This project provides valuable tools to capture and monitor your VoIP network and use it for troubleshooting or analytics purposes.