Great Lakes Reflector

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Great Lakes Reflector IRLP ref9610 Owner: KB8ZGL - Mike Admin: K8SN - Sam

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Great Lakes Reflector. IRLP ref9610. Owner: KB8ZGL - Mike. Admin: K8SN - Sam. Location. Located just south of Grand Rapids in Byron Center, MI. Housed in state of the art Fiber Network Operations Center for West MI Network and rack provided by FreedomNet Solutions. Fiber Network. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Great Lakes ReflectorIRLP ref9610

Owner: KB8ZGL - Mike

Admin: K8SN - Sam

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Location

• Located just south of Grand Rapids in Byron Center, MI.

• Housed in state of the art Fiber Network Operations Center for West MI

• Network and rack provided by FreedomNet Solutions

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Fiber Network

• The Great Lakes Reflector is connected via dual GB Fiber links

• BGP routing via Charter, Level3, USS and others

• Direct connection to Global Crossing for outside the US connections

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Hardware Specs• Dell 1955 Blade Server• Mirrored GB Ethernet ports on Cisco GB switch• VMWare vSphere (Virtualization)

– vMotion, High Availability (HA), Disaster Failover

• Dell MD3000i iSCSI Storage Area Network (2TB)• CentOS (Linux)• 10 day diesel generator• 3 hour Liebert UPS• SNMP Monitoring

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Channel Assignments• 9610 – Open Ragchew (English)• 9611 – Nets

• Say Good Morning with Radio Net (Daily 1500UTC)• IRLP Open Forum Net (Fridays 0100UTC)• The Friendly Manitoba Net (Wednesdays 0100UTC)

• 9612 – Florida Hurricane and Skywarn (when active)• 9613 – Kentucky IRLP Reflector Channel• 9614 – South CARS – integrated Echolink *SCARS* - voip.southcars.com

• Full Net (Sat 1300-1500UTC) / Pacific Coast Connection (Sat 1700-1800UTC)• Eurasia Connection (Sat 1800-1900UTC) / Australia Connection (Sat 2100-2200UTC)• Traders Net (Sun 1500-1600UTC & Wed 1500-1600UTC)• TNT Open Forum (Fri 0100UTC)

• 9615 – Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) – www.sbe.org/IRLP.php• 9616 – West Michigan linked repeaters• 9617 – Michigan Channel – integrated Echolink *MICHIGAN*

• Upper Peninsula Net(Sun 2000EST) / Michigan IRLP Link-up Net (Tues 0100UTC)• 9618 – Alaska Channel – integrated Echolink *ALASKA*• 9619 – General Ragchew and extended one-time events (English)

http://ref9610.irlp.net

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Additional Uses

• Virtualized Server Environment– Integrated Echolink conference server

• *MICHIGAN*, *ALASKA*, *SCARS*, *WMPORN*

– Dstar Reflector ref004 (http://ref004.dstargateway.org)• Channel A – Experimental (Analog audio present) / Backup SouthEastern Weather• Channel B – Texas Dstar Permalink Repeaters• Channel C – Ragchew (English) / Digital with GPS position monitoring

– Dstar Reflector xrf004– IRLP exp0042 – experimental technologies– Streaming Audio Server (ShoutCast)– Webserver (Apache and mysql)– Custom written channel sysop control pages and user listings

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Mike Wolthuis – [email protected]