Talk:OSE Network Plan
- Does OSE use any sort of two-way radio, VHF, or UHF radio at the Factor e Farm? I was just curious as this could also be integrated into a rack server with products such as these:
http://www.novexcomm.com/store.php?category=1
http://www.icomamerica.com/en/products/systems/analog/xbandair/default.aspx
http://www.icomamerica.com/en/products/systems/analog/xband50/default.aspx
- So for a quick clarification of how this works:
There is a large rack mounted "Primary Server" which allows for massive storage, network switching, network bonding , and processing power. Rack Mount Radio, And Phone Servers are also an option.
This is contained in an area with another rack which contains a "Render Farm" Which is essentially a bunch of GPU's linked together in a server rack. This allows for users to connect on very power limited PC's via the server's high speed networking, and do things in real time like
1. Complex Scientific/Engineering Simulations
2. Complex, High Part Count Cad
3. Render Super High Resolution Photos And Videos ( Raw 4k, 5k, and even 8k )
4. Edit Super High Resolution Photos And Videos ( Raw 4k, 5k, and even 8k )
5. Real Time Animation/CGI Rendering (All the way from low resolution to Super High Resolution)
6. AI/Neural Networking Work
7. Tons of Virtual Machines
A user can also rent it out over the internet for additional revenue
The mesh WiFi network simply is a group of special WAP Transmitters that create one giant mesh or bubble of WiFi that is all the same, instead of many smaller networks like some home WiFi repeaters. Think of Airport/ Shopping Center/ University WiFi.
Then there are the inter building connections.
These are either done by
1. Wireless WiFi "Satellite Dish Like" Antennas and Transmitters
2. Buried Coaxial Cable or Fiber Optic Cable (Preferably the latter due to less signal loss, and longer max cable lengths)
3. A combination of both 1 and 2
Then Finally we have the Secondary Servers. These are very small servers, for remote buildings, that take in the signals mentioned above and convert them to many more local connections via switches and also provide small local storage. They needn't be larger than a PC Case on top of a few network/phone switches. These secondary servers have the added benefit of making many smaller redundant LAN's below the larger LAN .
Do Routers like Netgear R6400 and/or something more hackable like WRT54GL support mesh networking ? I think Unify AC Mesh Pro Antennas are kind of the industry standard, but if we can make something ourselves using those routers you suggested, that would be great too! - Eric (contribs) Template:16:15, Template:22 Template:November Template:2017 (UTC)
Yea, it looks like there are software options for mesh style topologies.
Current information on ISP and internal Networking is out of date. From the last meeting, it sounds like the main issue currently may be limited data over the satellite service. There are several buildings that are mostly earthen etc. so a wireless mesh is a good option. Main use areas are likely HabLab, Work Shop, and residences. Low cost is important, but better service would be useful. The 25/3Mbps satellite seems to work ok, so immediate helpful solutions would be software to manage the timing of data use. Simple, generic equipment that is easy to maintain is also important since there are not regular technicians on site and breakdowns or required changes could cause service disruption. More inquiries to Marcin about current internal network are needed since info is out of date. There were some recent security/hacking issues, but I'm not sure if that was caused by to much info on the public wiki. Regardless some network security specifics need to be determined by someone on site and not logged to the wiki.
As too larger systems the nature of OSE is distributed and currently, computation needed is distributed with workloads to end developers, but needs will scale in time.
Eric, btw has anyone contacted you directly yet? If not please email Marcin. Also see the Slack Channel if you can't make the meetings.
- Again this is an old edit so i'll probably want to clean up more of my stuff etc, but it's okay for now
- Information might be a bit out of date now as well, so checking that out and getting that Documentation up to date is a good idea
- Also Buried Cable Maps if that was done
