On 2/6/19 2:23 PM, Jean-Michel Vien - VA2XJM wrote:
So we are a small group wishing to deploy an amateur network of analog and fusion repeater along with other features like phonepatch. I play with AREDN at the moment
ARDEN is not deterministic, and voip will be a crap shoot on it. Dedicated links with QoS are needed.
So far I know we can use internet to connect to other networks (just like Fusion Wires-X), but my main concern is what happen when internet goes down (it is a problem over here). So here is a list of questions:
1. Can we manage our network without connecting to ASL servers ? Let's say without any internet network, all our repeaters needs to stay linked.
There is no requirement to have your nodes talk to AllStar Link. Asterisk and app_rpt are completely independent for private nodes (beginning with 1xxxx). The HUB could be a public node if you wanted too.
2. Is there a way to have redundant link between the HUB and RPTs ? All RPTs would be normally connected to the HUB server, but if the HUB goes down or one node can't connect to it, it would try to connect to other nodes to remain inside the network.
You can do a permanent link where if the system goes down it will try to reconnect. You can setup a script to try reconnecting too if you want.
3. Does one needs to manage links manually or a "link" / "unlink" switch can be used ? Ex: *1 : connect/disconnect the RPT to/from the network (trying to connect to HUB first, then to other nodes until it can reach one) or a user needs to try each links manually using DTMF.
It will connect to the hub, and then bridge to the other nodes.
4. For the phone patch I am thinking about using an LTE phone interface that we can connect any regular analog phone to it. What kind of interface would be needed for it to work ? We prefer this LTE interface over VoIP services simply because the cellphone network is way more reliable than internet.
Most people use SIP. There are SIP interfaces to LTE/GSM which would work. -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net