Berkeley

A privately owned site in the low hills of Berkeley (map)(photos)

The Berkeley site's primary purpose is to bridge the Backbone to the more general Internet. This bridge will be replaced with a permanent bridge at Hurricane Electric.

Backbone

Dish to Wolfback

• Radio: airFiber 5XHD
• Antenna: UISP 30 dBi dish
• Frequency: -
• Bandwidth: 20 MHz
• Location: 37.888, -122.268
• Altitude: -
• Bearing: 259°

Transit Information

This site provides a peering point between the Backbone and the more general Internet.

Software

The Backbone network is peered using BGP running on Mikrotik CHR. We accept a full table for both IPv4 and IPv6.

Transits

Peering operates over Wireguard tunnels to two transit points:

• FreeRangeCloud (Fremont) - primary
• Route64.org (Kansas City) - backup

Hardware

The Mikrotik routing software runs on a redundant Ryzen cluster running Proxmox and Ceph.

Connections

The site primary connection to its peers is over 2Gb/s fiber. Backup connectivity is provided by Starlink.

Power

The site has limited battery backup plus a backup generator to handle longer outages.

Contacts

Site Admin

• Tim Wilkinson - KN6PLV - tim@sfwem.net

Mesh Admin

• Tim Wilkinson - KN6PLV - tim@sfwem.net