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BrandMaster/BrandMeister is an operating software for master servers participating in a worldwide infrastructure network of amateurradio digital voice systems.
- If you are a radioamateur working in digital voice modes like D-Star, DMR, C4FM, APCO25 or others, you do not need to know much about BrandMeister, you will easy operate on it’s infrastructure.
- If you are a radioamateur operating a repeater for your local area, you may be interested in some more about BrandMeister and how you can take part with it.
A brief overview of BrandMeister core features:
- Switching system for IP-enabled conventional DMR radio
- Supports the most known network-access and end-user equipment, easy expandable
- Performs switching on the Layer 3 (Call Control) of DMR stack
- Has embedded data stack (Layer 4)
- Has embedded data and voice applications
- Flexible routing based on data of global database, local inmemory cache and Lua scripts
- Event notification using messaging queues (calls, connections, alarms, messages, locations and telemetry)
- Allows to build own network based on mesh technology
BrandMeister allows to connect to MOTOROLA DMR-MARC and Hytera DMRplus networks, this means you can operate with DMR radioamateurs on both infrastructures the same time.
The above is not in use due to ”political” reasons. But we have links into other C-Bridge based networks as UA Talkgroups
BrandMeister allows me…
- To roam automatically from repeater to repeater
- To make private conversations on any time-slot
- To make world-wide conversations with any type of amateur DMR network
- To send my location to APRS
- To send SMS and receive
- To send (and receive) SMS to (or from) APRS
- To control some electric thing using my DMR radio as remote
Embedded Applications
- Common-use applications:
- Interactive voice response for status messages (with national language support for 5 languages),
- Signaling expansion (UU-Req/UU-Resp)
- Automatic registration/roaming (Hytera RRS)
- Auto-patch call gateway
- SMS gateway (vendor independent, supporting ETSI/Hytera/Motorola)
- IP bridge
- Radioamateur-use applications:
Architectural principals
The general architecture of BrandMeister consists of three different layers:
- the first layer provides drivers for frontend-/radio interfaces like Hytera Repeaters, Motorola repeaters, UP4DAR, homebrew repeaters
- the second layer is being build by the logical kernel with an implemented routing mechanism
- the third layer are interfaces supporting communication service protocols to the WAN (IPSC, CC-Link, APRS, XRF)
All BrandMeister Master servers communicate together by the own BrandMeister FastForward (FF) high-speed protocol.
- BrandMeister is only front-end application that works in real-time
- All business logic to distribute routing lists and user profiles implemented outside of BrandMeister like a set of back-end applications and scripts
- BrandMeister supports multiple sources of routing information: scripts, databases, in-memory cache, configuration files at the same time
- Web applications and diagnostic tools are also separated
- BrandMeister uses event-driven mechanisms (MQ) to notify backends about events, in-memory data storage and relational database to get location, routing and user profiles
We are in the process of implementation of a mesh-based distributed network storage, in this paradigm all network servers will be equivalent nodes.
This is a prerequisite for high availibility of the network and will keep the infrastructure most resistant to temporary or permanent loss of single nodes.