[HamWAN PSDR] Local Rings vs System Ring

[Bart Kus]

The ring is not so much of a ring 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology#Ring> anymore, it's more 
of a mesh network topology 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology#Mesh> in reality.  It 
contains several rings (cycles 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_%28graph_theory%29>) inside the 
mesh (graph).  The HamWAN cell sites offer a standardized network 
interface (frequencies, bearings, polarizations, bandwidths, 
modulations, tdma, dhcp, ip).  What you do with that is entirely up to 
you.  You can connect to any number of sites at once (including multiple 
sectors at once at each site, and the OPP 
<https://hamwan.org/Labs/Open%20Peering%20Policy.html> offering), and 
have your own private networking in between the routers that interface 
to HamWAN sites.  You're not limited to using ring topologies in your 
own networks either.

In short, yes, everything you're talking about is fine and doable.

--Bart


On 7/15/2018 2:49 PM, Jamie Hughes wrote:
>
> Good afternoon,
>
> Since there is some chatter about support emergency communications 
> stuff, I’d like to ask some questions as well.
>
> Would it make sense to build a small “private” ring that then has a 
> few connection points to a few “cell” sites? IN other words, create a 
> private ring, between all the locations my team needs, and then at a 
> few of those sites, hoping on to the Ham Wan.
>
> The goal would be to use all HAM WAN Routing, but remaining in the 
> local ring unless we needed to route externally.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jamie Hughes
>
> WA7JH
>
>
>
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