Great Lakes Reflector

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Great Lakes Reflector

• IRLP 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
http//ref9610.irlp.net

• 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)

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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 KB8ZGL

• kb8zgl_at_kb8zgl.net

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