[Troop139] Randy, WU2S & Gordon, W2TTT Tunnel Mesh to TX & CA

[w2ttt at att.net]

Hi Folks!
Building on the awesome VTUN script work and help from Randy, WU2S,  Darryl,  K5DLQ, Joe, AE6XE, and Clint, AE5CA, we now have Internet backbones connecting our BroadBand HamNet Mesh network "islands" allowing for enhanced connectivity among active developers and users of experimental and emergency applications.  This will accelerate development and deployments when infrastructure networks fail, or when they don't reach a location in an adequate or cost-effective manner.  
By extending the BBHN mesh to a fixed, mobile or portable Internet Gateway that has a tunnel to other sites, key support elements and applicarions can be remoted from a stable location in support of a challenging field operation.   This Amateur Radio-based "cloud" computing capability, originally developed on Linksys WRT-54 hardware by Radio Amateurs in Austin, Texas,  enables wireless support of public safety,  Red Cross, Salvation Army, and other NGOs deployed in emergencies,  public events and drills.  
Applications include web, file, time, IRC chat, VOIP telephone,  conference and video and camera servers.  

Randy and Gordon, W2TTT each have two tunnel connections from their respective "clouds" using AT&T Wireless and Verizon FiOS broadband connections.  Each has tunnel connections to Darryl's "cloud" and more will be added to other sites shortly.  In addition to the two portable cellular wireless Mesh nodes, Gordon has a mobile wireless cellular Mesh node that can be rolled up to a site in an operational state on the tunnel network.    These capabilities will augment the fixed site nodes that can now operate on 900MHz, and 2.4, 3.4 and 5.7 GHz using Ubiquiti or Linkys hardware loaded with Amateur Radio BroadBand HamNet software thanks to Conrad Lara, KG6JEI who has been working with Andre Hansen, K6AH.  

Go to the www.bbhn.org web site for software downloads and more information.  Another source of current operational project information is the COMTECHGROUP on Yahoo Groups. 
Contact Gordon, W2TTT at arrl.net (201.314.6964) for more information on the Yahoo group.

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