Skye has moved once again to have a new home approximately 600 Metres to the North East which not only provides good LOS to existing nodes within the network but also greater coverage and better redundancy between the CBD and northern suburbs.
The core router of Skye is the 3rd location to bare the name ‘Skye’. It was originally deployed in May 2007. It currently runs a ‘standard’ Air-Stream Core router configuration; comprising of a Routerboard 433, two 5Ghz backbone links and a 2.4Ghz Access Point. The original setup made use of the Air-Stream FreeBSD distribution, running off a CF Flash card, however this was upgraded to the current configuration in early 2008.
Skye’s backbones link to Highgate (Formerly Julia-Farr) and Walkerville.
