[App_rpt-users] keeping connections permanent

[Bryan D. Boyle]

On 8/24/2013 4:09 PM, KJ6KO wrote:
> Do you need to do it to both ends of the link or only one?

Only one.  One thing you may want to consider as you build multiple
systems is the concept of a hub (or reflector) and spoke arrangement
where you have one allstar node configured as a hub, and use that as the
center of your repeater network, where the machines are located on the
spokes.

This allows you to centralize management of your repeaters as well as
ease the consistency and stand-up process (not to mention the
flexibility).  If you place it on a separate computer, you also reduce
the processing overhead; a hub node does no DSP, only routing of the
digital signals which is less intensive than decoding,
de/pre-emphasizing, and all the attendant folderol to get the signals in
and out.

It also means, in a well-architected system, that you have one place to
go to manage x systems; the repeater nodes do what they have to, and the
hub manages who is connected to whom through its own features,
capabilities, scripting, and so forth.

Asterisk: thinking outside the box for lots of years.  And Real
Programmers don't write Pascal.

Bryan
Allstar 27294, 27295, 27673, 27710, 27774, 28254, 28868, etc.