LimeNET Network-in-a-Box

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LimeNET Mini - Early Bird

A high-performance mini PC with an integrated and shielded internal LimeSDR USB micro Type-B, U.FL cables, and antennas. This hardware is fully qualified for compatibility with the LimeNET Ubuntu app store. Other than reduced pricing (save $300) and limited quantity (only five available), this early bird batch is the same as the regular LimeNET Mini with integrated LimeSDR.

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^$1,599

LimeNET Mini (without LimeSDR)

A high-performance mini PC without an internal LimeSDR, U.FL cables, or antennas. This hardware is fully qualified for compatibility with the LimeNET Ubuntu app store provided you have your own LimeSDR for external use. (NOTE: Those who purchased a LimeSDR before the launch of the LimeNET campaign get a $400 discount on the version of the LimeNET Mini without the integrated LimeSDR. To claim the $1,199 price, place your order by July 13, 2017 and include your LimeSDR order number in the order comments. Your price will be adjusted shortly after placing your LimeNET Mini order.)

Orders placed now ship Oct 31, 2017.

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^$2,699

LimeNET Enterprise

A high-performance PC with an external LimeSDR with Aluminum Kit from the original LimeSDR campaign. This hardware is fully qualified for compatibility with the LimeNET Ubuntu app store. Save $300 off the post-campaign retail price of $2,999. (NOTE: There is an $800 discount for a version without the LimeSDR with Aluminum Kit, but it is available only to those who purchased a LimeSDR with Aluminum Kit from the original LimeSDR campaign before the launch of the LimeNET campaign. To qualify, please place your order by July 13, 2017 and include your original order number in the order comments. The $800 discount will be applied shortly after your order is placed).

Orders placed now ship Oct 31, 2017.

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^$17,250

LimeNET Base Station - Early Bird

This is a steeply discounted combination of the LimeNET Core + LimeNET Amplifier Chassis. This is all you need to set up your own cellular network!

Orders placed now ship Feb 28, 2018.

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LimeNET Base Station

This is a steeply discounted combination of the LimeNET Core + LimeNET Amplifier Chassis. This is all you need to set up your own cellular network!

Orders placed now ship Feb 28, 2017.

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Frequency Band

^$13,199

LimeNET Amplifier Chassis

Amplifier Module for long range connectivity features: Set of two (MIMO): 10 W RF Output Power Amplifier + Duplexer + Antenna Your choice of frequency band (700 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.6 GHz, 3.5 GHz) Thick monolithic aluminum body

Orders placed now ship Feb 28, 2018.

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Frequency Band

Funding ends on Jul 13, 2017 at 04:59 PM PDT (11:59 PM UTC)

A software-enabled network-in-a-box based on LimeSDR

As Featured In

eeNews Europe

"Over 3,600 developers are currently involved in efforts to create apps, called Snaps, for LimeSDR, with several free and paid-for apps having already appeared on the open community LimeSDR App store."

Light Reading

"By ‘open sourcing’ Lime Microsystems’ 5G and IoT capable SDR base station design, Lime and Canonical are looking to effectively ‘commoditise’ network hardware and shift the value centre towards software."

EE Times

"Commoditised base stations allow any enterprise to run their own base station and get spectrum from their operators as a service. Base stations can have new form factors as well, like being embedded into vending machines or attached to drones."

LinuxGizmos.com

"Lime Microsystems’ upcoming LimeNET Network-in-a-Box base station will support Ubuntu Core host systems. The open source micro base station is based on the Ubuntu Core ready LimeSDR SBC for software defined radio, which was a big hit on CrowdSupply..."

Electronics Weekly

"'Radio access technology for wide area networks accounts for a significant portion of the overall deployment cost,' said Lime CEO Ebrahim Bushehri. 'We’re seeking to make the hardware an open-source commodity sold for a fraction of current offerings...'"

everything RF

"LimeNET Mini - A software defined radio small cell network in a box for mobile and IoT applications, based on an Intel i7 processor and... LimeSDR. This combination makes it an ideal implementation for high data rate communication applications...”

Components in Electronics

"LimeNET base stations hold the potential to completely transform the way telco networks run, shifting the emphasis and value away from proprietary hardware to open hardware with app stores on top."

Microwave Journal

"The LimeNET Mini is an app enabled, small cell base station... It is ideal for developing residential SDR applications--like IoT. The more-powerful LimeNET version is for carrier-class wide area network deployments."

The Mobile Network

"With Lime Microsystems [EE] is delivering a software defined radio base to Open Source, and hopes to attract developers to build applications on top of the Lime SDR platform."

MWee

"[Limenet seeks] to make the hardware an open-source commodity sold for a fraction of current offerings, with the real value being in the software it runs. Doing it this way would effectively turn LTE, GSM or LoRa, or even 5G, into just an app.”

Total Telecom

"The three new platforms for developers, enterprise networks and carriers; uses among the most advanced radio technologies to dramatically cut the cost of wireless innovation, and change the way networks are developed."

Our mission is to democratise wireless innovation. Last year, we launched the LimeSDR campaign as the first step towards this goal. Now, we are launching LimeNET, a new campaign that offers the community a line of pre-qualified hardware with integrated LimeSDR technology. There are three main LimeNET hardware stacks: Mini, Enterprise, and Base Station - all of them are pre-qualified to work with the recently announced Ubuntu App Stores, so you can easily find, share, and publish apps specifically written with LimeSDR technology in mind.

What’s New?

If you’ve been following the LimeSDR project, here’s a summary of what’s new in LimeNET:

Complete, qualified systems of LimeSDR + commodity hardware that will work with the Ubuntu app store:
- LimeNET Mini
- LimeNET Enterprise
- LimeNET Base Station
A new, high-performance member of the LimeSDR family - the LimeSDR QPCIe board
Long range power amplifier offered as part of LimeNET Base Station or on its own
If you already have a LimeSDR, you can put it to use as an external peripheral with LimeNET hardware
If you ordered a LimeSDR with Aluminum Kit before the launch of the LimeNET campaign, you get a generous discount on LimeNET Enterprise
Out-of-the-box support for the HF band (LimeNET Mini only)

Read on for details!

Open Radio Stack

LimeNET extends LimeSDR’s open source software-defined radio ecosystem by offering an array of standard LimeSDR-based hardware configurations on which you can run Ubuntu Core to find, share, publish, and deploy pre-packaged applications (“snaps”). The idea is to replace specialized, closed equipment, software, and knowledge with open source software and commodity hardware. LimeNET is an open alternative to the incumbent, closed wireless model.

	LimeNET Open Model	Incumbent Closed Model
Chipset	Readily available and open source software	Closed and proprietary with vendor lock-in
Radio Hardware	Readily available and open source	Closed and highly specialised
Baseband & Digital	General-purpose motherboards	Proprietary ASICs
Software	App-based with worldwide developer network	Closed and expensive with vendor lock-in
Deployment & Maintenance	Uses general IT skillset and commodity hardware	Highly specialised and requires OEM support

What is LimeNET For?

LimeNET is the next step in the evolution of software defined radio. What you actually use it for is completely up to your imagination (and the imagination of thousands of other developers). Broadly speaking, LimeNET is a great option for any application that is a convergence of wireless technologies, such as:

IoT
Media streaming
Test & measurement
Cellular base stations

For example, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017, there was a demonstration of a complete 4G network running on a commodity laptop connected to a software-defined radio dongle (a LimeSDR!) streaming HD video to standard, off-the-shelf smart phones. Several aspects of this demo were unique:

Complete LTE stack and EPC was running on low-cost, high-volume equipment
The APIs and drivers for the radio were completely open source and available to developers worldwide
None of the software or hardware came from incumbent cellular suppliers

This is just one example. There are plenty of others involving HAM, radio astronomy, AM/FM, GNSS, and more.

Hardware Offerings

In this campaign, we’re offering the LimeNET Mini, LimeNET Enterprise, LimeNET Base Station, and many of their constituent components.

LimeNET Mini

Complete with an integrated LimeSDR USB micro Type-B with added shielding, this mini PC will get you up and running with the LimeNET app store in no time.

LimeNET Mini

Mainboard
- Form Factor: 105 x 110 mm
- Processor: Intel Core i7-7500U, two cores, 2.7 GHz (3.5 GHz boost)
- Memory: 32 GB (2 x 16 GB SO-DIMM) DDR4 2133 MHz
- Storage: 512 GB SSD
- Video
  - Intel HD Graphics 620
- Mini DisplayPort 1.2: 3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz
- HDMI 2.0: 4096 x 2160 @ 60 Hz
- Audio: Realtek ALC255
- Connectivity
  - 1 x USB 3.1 Type-C
  - 1 x USB 3.1
  - 2 x USB 3.0
  - 1 x Gigabit Ethernet
- Wi-Fi + Bluetooth (tentatively Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168)
Power Supply
- Power adaptor: 19 VDC input @ 3.42 A, 65 W
- Cooling: single fan
Enclosure
- Material: injection molded plastic and stainless steel
- Dimensions: 11.2 x 12.0 x 5.2 cm (exclusive of antennas)
- Partitions: top (black) holds mini PC, bottom (green) holds LimeSDR
Radio (Integrated)
- Board: LimeSDR USB micro Type-B
- Shielding: attached to LimeSDR
- Antennas: five (of which one is dedicated for HF reception)
- Cables: 5 x U.FL (internal and pre-installed)
- Transmit Range: Approximately 15 meters for LTE
- Power Amplifier: None
- Filters: None
Pricing & Availability
- Estimated first shipment: October 2017
- Early bird: $1,899 USD
- Campaign: $2,199 USD
- Pre-order: $2,399 USD
- Retail: $2,599 USD

The LimeNET Mini available both with and without the LimeSDR USB micro Type-B board and associated cabling and antennas pre-installed - complete and bare versions, respectively. You can use an external LimeSDR USB board with a bare version simply be using one of the LimeNET Mini’s external USB ports. However, internally integrating your own LimeSDR within the LimeNET Mini is not supported, as it requires careful soldering to add the RF shielding necessary to protect the integrity of the RF signals from noise from the mini PC. In fact, the bare version’s enclosure doesn’t even include room for an integrated LimeSDR.

Special Offer for LimeSDR Backers

As a token of appreciation to our early LimeSDR backers, we’re making available for a limited time the bare (i.e., without integrated LimeSDR) version of the LimeNET Mini computer at a $400 discount off its standard campaign price. This offer is only available to backers of the LimeSDR USB boards (Type-A, micro Type-B, Aluminum Kit, and respective early birds) who ordered before the launch of the LimeNET campaign (before May 23, 2017). You can take advantage of this discount by entering your original LimeSDR order number in the comments field of your order for a LimeNET Mini. This discount is available until July 13, 2017. Thank you for your early support!

LimeNET Mini ports layout

Left	Right
1. USB 3.0	1. Risecard connector
2. LAN	2. USB 3.1 Type-C
3. Mini DisplayPort
4. HDMI 2.0
5. DC input
6. SATA cable connector
7. Microphone/headset
8. USB 3.1 Type-A
9. 30-pin debug connector
10. Power connector