Over the last 15 years, HAMNET (Highspeed Amateur Radio Multimedia NETwork) has developed from an experiment into a stable infrastructure, particularly in German-speaking regions.

It generally connects unmanned amateur radio stations via microwave links using the IP- and BGP-protocol and provides a platform for networking amateur radio applications.

This talk will show how HAMNET has evolved and how it could evolve (challenges in deployment, expansion in Europe, densification of the backbone, higher speeds, access technologies for non-line-of-sight propagation).