Joost Blog

One of the main things holding us back right now is the dependency on a tiny 50Mbit fiber to the Leiden office (which is also not exactly redundant). In order to solve this - we're planning on using a datacenter in Luxembourg as our effective 'headend' from where we broadcast into the peer to peer network. And from thereon we may have 'repeaters' spread out globally to prop up the peer to peer network in specific markets or markets which have relatively thin connections or poor peering.

unpacking

packing

So after some serious unpacking (left), testing and packing (right) we are on our way to Luxembourg.

At 4am, a mere few hours before these pictures were taken, we found that a key piece of equipment was dead on arrival (yup, that was indeed the main router). Usually we can get those replaced in just a few hours - but unfortunately Luxembourg is too small a country to warrant its own depot - so we're now hoping that the replacement arrives early tomorrow. (Newsflash: Cisco came through - and a new shiny 7301 was waiting for us when we got to the colo - well ahead of time. Excelent!) This means that we should be up and running just before Christmas.

So on to the next phase! Where we are almost like normal TV - with a 'headend', broadcasting station or 'satellite uplink' like everyone else.

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