Packet Broker and hundreds of local network servers

mrpher
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:30:22 +0000
Packet Broker

A thought provoker… in two parts.

1. I saw that Packet Broker is open, but can it be run on our own infrastructure?

2. If so, could it be used to connect a bunch of TTN (Things Stacks really) all running locally on the actual gateway?

Here’s why I ask. @xoseperez project for running a full TTN network server locally on a Raspberry Pi gateway (with Balena) is quite interesting, especially if you consider it could be scaled out to hundreds/thousands of local gateways. If Packet Broker could tie them all together, you’d have a zero point of failure Lora network. If one gateway goes down, no problem. If one network server goes down, also no problem.

I understand that packet broker was really intended to tie network servers running in the cloud, but why not also use it to tie network servers running on the gateway?

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