Scaling Community Cellular Networks with CommunityCellularManager
summary
Provides a concrete system: CCM client runs a microscale mobile core at each site while a cloud CCM controller mediates spectrum, numbers and interconnection with Globe Telecom. Demonstrates a 3-year, 17-site Philippine deployment serving ~2,100 monthly active users, 50,000 call-hours and 3 million SMS, using 256 kbps VSAT per site, a prepaid credit ledger replicated via minute check-ins (median <3 KB, 90% delta compression), disconnected operation that recovers 19% more local calls and 16% more credit transfers, and open source code on GitHub.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 0:32Key Contributors to the Ccm Open Source Project
- 0:52The Spread of Mobile Networks Worldwide
- 4:00How Cellular Networks Work
- 5:25Design Principle behind Ccm
- 6:21Ccm Controller
- 9:22Subscriber State
- 10:46Usage History
- 11:51Uptime History
- 13:11Components of Why Sites Go Down
- 13:30Backhaul Failures
- 15:56Barriers to Entry for Community Networks
- 19:19Wireless Backhaul Is Feasible
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