Welcome to any new visitors who read the stories today in the Albany Democrat Herald and Corvallis Gazette Times. I really appreciate the ongoing support of everyone back home - I couldn’t be here without you all. Our situation has improved a bit since my last, rather depressing post. Three more people arrived and are currently out in the field with the rest of the team getting work done. We’re trying to pull in another 10 MB or so of bandwidth from Mobile, AL, which we need pretty badly. There’s also a pretty good chance that our 2-week overdue 18-wheeler of supplies will show up today. Granted, we think that every day, but I have a good feeling about today!
I was woken up this morning by a call from Cisco, which is OK by me. We’ve been asking some contacts there if they can supply us with the routers and switches we need to finish up our core network. Sounds like they’re really interested in helping us....let’s just hope they can convince the beancounters. Same with Trango (the company who’s donated almost all of our radios). With the additional bandwidth we hope to have, we really need to upgrade the capacity of our backhauls. Additionally, we currently have a single path through the network, which doesn’t do much for redundancy. One of our main sites for this area - the 35-story hotel/casino - has lost power for a couple hours each night. This is a major problem for us, so adding multiple paths around the network is a high priority. We really need both these vendors to come through for us to be able to finish our network core. As for me, I’m probably only looking at another week here. There’s only so much unpaid time you can take off work without hurting too much. Plus, there’s stuff back at OSU that I have to take care of. Everyone’s been really supportive, but there comes a time when you just have to get back. I’m hoping we can get the hardware and personnel here before that time so I can at least see our core become what it should. I’ll post later when I have more to say.
- Matt
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