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Welcome iQSO is the main information hub for the newly formed Solihull Interlinking Group that has a specific interest in Internet Linking and digital communications. The new group is a collaboration between Mark G4LCH & Dave G4DPZ plus a carefully selected close down & administration team for each system.
There are many new industry standard tools in production that will be released for public use, 100% free from malware and developer controlled phone home functions that in our opinion have no place in modern software development.
Domain Update We have created the new iqso.co.uk domain has been created to allow us to move away from maintaining multiple domains, the domains for gb3dx, gb3ui and mb7ibg have all been pointed at the new area. To make better use of computing resources we have now combined the England Conference Server and the iqso web services onto one high speed, high availability server. This reduces the overall costs along with then energy required to run the system. We will be phasing out the machine specific dns entries during 2010 this will reduce the managament overhead and also reduce costs further. Software Development Update 2010
Following some hard work initial tests during the Christmas holiday we have been testing various combinations of operating systems and Echolink software solutions. We have tested all of the latest Microsoft operating systems with some very interesting results.
We have also been evaluating several Virtual Machines which have delivered some interesting but disappointing results, it is very apparent that Virtual Machines do have performance issues when used with applications such as VOIP, in client operations they do offer an excellent alternative to running a native operating system but its a very different story in a server environment where the IO demands are much greater.
Our goal is to reduce the overall energy footprint of the MB7IBG gateway and GB3UI repeater systems. This reducing the hardware used to drive the systems. The multi-processor computer selected has been commissioned to also run as a network server that will start in the near future to host this web service in addition to acting as a local LAN server and a router / firewall for the main local area network eliminating the need to run an additional hardware router(s). There are many more functions that this high specification server will deliver, throughout 2010 the network will change in a controlled fashion with predefined milestones and announcements on this web site. MB7IBG VHF Internet Gateway URGENT -Gateway operations have returned to normal there are no service restrictions in place. We are using a 3g router to access the echolink system from our test bed which is proving to be both reliable, quick and cost effective. A great way to get communications into hard to reach areas that have access to a 3g signal. You can also use them mobile which is great news, we will be writing up the results of our experimemnts in the near future but our priority is the project we are working on at the moment. |