Bart, Thank you very much for the reply. When we get closer, I will reach out to aid in design, if you guys are open to that. Thanks, Jamie Hughes WA7JH From: PSDR [mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org] On Behalf Of Bart Kus Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2018 3:25 PM To: psdr@hamwan.org Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Local Rings vs System Ring 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 _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR@hamwan.org<mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org> http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr