OpenBridge Additions

HBNet contains some optional and additional enhancements to the OpenBridge protocol.

Encryption

OpenBridge traffic can now be optionally encrypted between servers using symmetric encryption (specification here). This is experimental. Note, this is not high grade encryption, but it is better than nothing.

Unit Calling

HBNet can send various server to server commands over OpenBridge. For example, whenever a user keys their radio, the subscriber ID is sent to other HBNet servers, where it is stored in memory and used to route private calls (voice and data). No more flooding all systems to find a subscriber, each server already knows where every subscriber is, regardless if it is on a different server.