APEX backbone

Motorola Backbone

The Motorola backbone is a wireless network build with Motorola cannopy equipment. The network starts at Meraka and goes right up-to Mariepskop and then down to Mbuzini. See picture:

Throughput tests

The following benchmarks are for network throughputs between Meraka and each one of the remote sites. The measurement tool that was uses is iperf

Renosterkop (May 21 09:34)

Meraka:

Remote: PING 192.168.10.254 (192.168.10.254): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.10.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=40.677 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=19.507 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=19.293 ms

--- 192.168.10.254 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 19.293/26.492/40.677/10.030 ms

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Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)

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Client connecting to 192.168.10.254, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 32.5 KByte (default)

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[ 5] local 192.168.10.222 port 61471 connected with 192.168.10.254 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 5] 0.0-16.1 sec 7.62 MBytes 3.97 Mbits/sec

Lammerskop (May 21 13:37)

Meraka:

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Duhva (May 21 16:49)

Meraka:

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Garangkuva (May 22 10:29)

Meraka:

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Dullstroom (May 26 08:08)

Meraka:

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Mauschberg (May 26 09:29)

Meraka:

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Kiepersol (May 26 11:28)

Meraka:

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Mariepskop (May 26 13:36)

Meraka:

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Lamomahsa (May 27 07:50)

Meraka:

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Mbuzini (May 27 10:00)

Meraka:

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