We’re looking at app_rpt for sites with up to eight radios, all currently controlled by a RLC-3.  Our initial approach is to use a PC and try to run all eight radios off of it.  For testing we’re using modified fobs running on USB 2.0 ports and when we try to use more than four, things break up, sound bad, etc.  I’ve found that CentOS 5 that comes on the ACID disk doesn’t support USB 3.0, which we were thinking might offer more bandwidth and handle the added fobs.

Has anyone used this PC based approach for 4+ nodes using USB fobs?  Or could I get some suggestions as to how to approach the implementation of eight nodes without using fobs or the discontinued 4 port PC card? 

Or is it a viable solution to use a BBB for every radio and connect them all with Ethernet switches and treat each BBB like a separate server.

Any ideas are appreciated

Cole

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