aucoop/hahatay-community-network

A dockerized self hosted server running on the Comunitarian Network of Gandiol, Senegal # Hahatay Community Network ## About Hahatay is a non-profit asociation for community development, aimed at providing effective responses to forced migrations in Africa that deprive its youth of hope. The organization's objective is to empower and involve young people to become true protagonists in improving their lives, and to be a meeting space that connects individuals committed to integral human development. ## Purpose This repository aims to showcase the implementation details of the network topology. The goal is to show how we deployed the network, which hardware and software technology stack we used and how we manage the network in order to be open and transparent about the work done and inspire more people from the community networks community to embrace self-hosted projects and target other rural areas around the world. Documentation is focused on 3 main areas: backhaul network architecture, low cost Mesh Networks deployment and micro-services deployment. ## Thanks to Contributors This is a non-profit project and it's driven mainly by students or volunteers that dedicate their free time on collaborate into tasks of the project. The project is mainly funded by the CCD at the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) TODO Collaborating corporate entities donated servers for these services, including Labdoo and Typeform. ## Network Implementation ### Backhaul Networks The backhaul network interconnects geographically distributed areas using radio links (Ubiquiti airMAX antennas). At the edge, there is a small datacenter with three edge servers: one dedicated to network management functionalities and two others dedicated to perform multimedia tasks. ### Low-Cost Mesh Networks The aforementioned geographically distributed areas have a surface that is big enough, so several access points are needed. In order to have proper WiFi access networks, we have built mesh networks using low-end routers. All documentation and code around Mesh Network deploy …