Downtown Cullman Transmitter

  
West Cullman Uplink
(This link powers sites across West Cullman County including Lewis Smith Lake)
 

  
East Cullman Uplink
(This link powers sites across East Cullman County )

 
    

  
  Lawrence County Uplink   
(This link powers sites near Hatton and Town Creek in Lawrence County)

  

  
   Uplink to Smith Lake Broadband Network 
(This link powers sites around Smith Lake - Curry, Arley, etc. )
 
   

  
West Cullman - South and East (Legacy)
(Including Lewis Smith Lake, Trimble, "Goat Island", Bremen areas, & more)
 

  


  
West Cullman
(Including Logan, Battleground, West Point, & More)

  

  


  
West Cullman - Panel # 1
(Including Logan, Battleground, West Point, & More)

  

  


  
West Cullman - Panel # 2
(Including Logan, Battleground, West Point, & More)

  

  


  
West Cullman - Panel # 3
(Including Logan, Battleground, West Point, & More)

  

  


  
West Cullman - Panel # 4
(Including Logan, Battleground, West Point, & More)

  

  


  
West Cullman - Panel # 5
(Including Logan, Battleground, West Point, & More)

  

  
North East Cullman - South West
(Including Simcoe, Gold Ridge, Fairview, and More)
  
  

  
North East Cullman - South East
(Including Fairview, Baileyton, Joppa, and More)
 

  
North East Cullman - North East
(Including Baileyton, Eva, and More)
 

  
North East Cullman - North West
(Including Eva, Gold Ridge, Simcoe, Fairview, and More)
 

  
South East Cullman - West
(Including Holly Pond, Welti, Walter, Simcoe, and more)
 
 

 
South East Cullman - East
(Including Holly Pond, Schoolhouse Road, Highway 67, and more)
 

( Joppa -  Panel 1 - South )


( Joppa - Panel 2 )
 

( Joppa - Panel 3 - West )


( Joppa - Panel 4 )


( Joppa - Panel 5 )


 ( Joppa - Panel 6  - North)
 
 Joppa Transmitter
(Including Joppa, Highway 67 / 69 Corridor, Eastern Baileyton)

 ( Joppa - Panel 7 )
 
 Joppa Transmitter
(Including Joppa, Highway 67 / 69 Corridor, Eastern Baileyton)
 

 ( Joppa - Panel 8  )
 
 Joppa Transmitter
(Including Joppa, Highway 67 / 69 Corridor, Eastern Baileyton)
 

 ( Joppa - Panel 9 )
 
 Joppa Transmitter
(Including Joppa, Highway 67 / 69 Corridor, Eastern Baileyton)

 
 

  
Good Hope / Old Highway 69 / Dodge City Transmitter
(This transmitter uplinks through our West Cullman Uplink)
 

  
78 - Smith Lake - Bremen & Cold Springs Area (Transmitter #1)
(This transmitter uplinks through the West Cullman Uplink)
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78 - Smith Lake - Bremen & Cold Springs Area (Transmitter #2) 
(This transmitter uplinks through the West Cullman Uplink)
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 78 - Smith Lake - Bremen & Cold Springs Area (Transmitter #3) 
(This transmitter uplinks through the West Cullman Uplink)
 

  
84 - Smith Lake - Misty Harbor, Catalina Point, Dogwood Point
(This transmitter uplinks through the West Cullman Uplink)
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Vinemont & North Cullman - Omni
(This transmitter uplinks through our West Cullman Uplink) 
 

 
  
Vinemont - Panel #1

 
  
Vinemont - Panel #2

 
  
Vinemont - Panel #3

 
  
Vinemont - Panel #4
      

 
  
Vinemont - Panel #5

 
  
Vinemont - Panel #6

 
  
Vinemont - Panel #7
 

 
  
Vinemont - Panel #8
 

 
  
Jones Chapel - Facing South

 

 
  
Jones Chapel - Facing East

 
  
Jones Chapel - Facing North

 
  
Jones Chapel - Facing West

 
  
  Garden City Transmitter 
     

 
  
  Battleground Transmitter
 

Access Point - Omni - Village @ Blount Springs
(Feeds most of the Village at Blount Springs Development in Blount County)

Access Point - 5.7 Ghz Directional - Village @ Blount Springs
(Feeds customers east and south)
(Located at the Village at Blount Springs Development in Blount County)

Non Line of Sight Village 900 mhz Access Point
(Feeds customers behind poolhouse and Ridge Street)
(Located at the Village at Blount Springs Development in Blount County)

61 - Prospect Mountain

  
84 - Smith Lake - Misty Harbor, Catalina Point, Dogwood Point
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Gibson Transmitter #1
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Gibson Transmitter #2
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Sipsey Pines Transmitter
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Sipsey Pines Transmitter #2
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Dismal Creek Transmitter #1
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Dismal Creek Transmitter #2
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Wilson Bend Transmitter 1
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Wilson Bend Transmitter 3
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Wilson Bend Transmitter 4
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Wilson Bend - Site #2
(Feeds areas around Lewis Smith Lake)

Helicon Transmitter
(Feeds areas around Arley and Helicon)

Rocky Springs Transmitter
( Feeds areas on Lewis Smith Lake )

Crane Hill Transmitter
( Feeds areas on Lewis Smith Lake )

  
Additional Trivia About Our Network:

( Updated 6/15/2012 )

• Each "Customer" radio you see here is capable of passing approximately 4000.0 k of traffic (4 megabytes of traffic).  We continue to research new types of radios that can pass more traffic.
   
• Dialup connections ran at kilobits - if you had a 56k modem connection, you were at 56 kbps, or .056 mbps, or roughly 1/6th of a 256k connection.  Connections are no longer measured in kbps, but in mbps (or megabits per second).
   
• Connections from our distribution tower to our other towers run at very high speed compared to other parts of the network.  The distribution tower (West Cullman Uplink) which is also a customer tower is fed by a link capable of running at 50 mbps.  This link was upgraded from a 12.5 meg link in June, 2012.
  
  The east Cullman uplink is also fed by a link capable of running at 20 mbps. The link to Holly Pond is also capable of running 20 mbps.
   
• Several radios have their own independent source of bandwidth while other radios have shared bandwidth. The total amount of bandwidth available to the entire network at any given time is approximately 50 mbps.  We purchase our bandwidth from AT&T via a fiber backbone.  This connection was upgraded from 20 mbps in December 2011.  It was supposed to have been done much earlier but the April 27 tornado caused us to have to move and redesign our network - and thus create a new bandwidth order from AT&T.
   
• Our network currently passes on average around 35-40 megabit.  From a few years, ago, we were surprised to see 10-15 megabit.  See below  - New Bandwidth Record - Christmas Eve, 2009, we saw over 10,200k (10.2 meg) usage around 9 PM. Our previous record, set in 2007, was  9000.0k k (9 meg) of traffic on Christmas morning.  Since adding additional network segments, it's not unusual to see that amount of traffic on one single uplink to an area of the county. This record was set for the west Cullman network - usage was not very high at the time on the east side of the county.
   
• Remember each radio is only polled once every five minutes so what you see is an average - a sampling - if you will - of overall usage.  On a broadband connection you can download a file in 30 seconds and it will never show up on this graph.
   
• We are continuing a process of adding more sectors (and thus more radios) to each tower, to help increase the amount of available bandwidth to each customer.  You will see which towers are upgraded as we perform this process - such towers will have several graphs.
   
• Our network administrator created this webpage and is always monitoring it. Isn't he nice to share his information? :)
   
• A large(r) amount of "green" traffic (data from our customers back to the internet) can significantly impact performance of our network. When data is sent from the internet to our customers - our customers must send an "ACK" , or acknowledgement packet back to the internet in order for the transmission to be complete. Due to the configuration of our network, the amount of data capacity in this direction is limited (much like DSL is). Therefore we try very hard to keep that path as free of "sustained traffic" as possible.  This restriction does not apply to our new High Speed network in the downtown Cullman business district.