flexitnode Flex over Starlink

Starlink is amazing. But Flex was never designed to run over it.

Flexitnode is a small appliance for your remote site, paired with a node in the cloud. Together they make your radio behave as though it were on a fixed line.

“Starlink is amazing, but Flex was never designed to run over Starlink — Flexitnode fixes that.”

Does this sound like you?

Five lines. If the first four are yours, the fifth is the answer.

  1. 1You have a FlexRadio. A 6000, an 8000, an Aurora — anything you would normally drive with SmartSDR.
  2. 2You have a remote site. Somewhere quiet, away from the noise, where the radio actually wants to live.
  3. 3You have Starlink at that site. Because it is the only sensible way to get bandwidth to your remote site.
  4. 4And you cannot get it working properly. It will not connect from outside. It was supposed to be easy. Many hours spent trying things, and forum post after forum post — to no avail.
  5. 5Get a Flexitnode. Problem solved. The appliance goes in at the site, the cloud node does the rest, and your client connects to something that stays still.

How it works

Starlink puts your site behind shared, carrier-grade NAT: there is no fixed address to dial into, and nothing from outside can reach in. Flexitnode stops trying to fight that and turns the connection around.

At your site

Your Flex, plus the Flexitnode appliance. It reaches out; nothing needs to reach in.

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In the cloud

Your own cloud node — a fixed, reachable address that never moves, whatever Starlink does.

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Wherever you are

SmartSDR on a PC or Mac, an iPad, an iPhone or your Maestro connects to the cloud node. It looks like a radio on a fixed line.

What you get

The appliance

Goes in once, stays put

Small, quiet and low-power, sitting beside the radio. It holds the link open to your cloud node and brings itself back after a power cut or a Starlink outage without anyone driving out there.

The cloud node

A fixed point that never moves

A high performance public node that belongs to you. It is what your clients talk to, so the address you connect to stays the same no matter what your ISP does with yours.

Remove the complexity

Most remote-Flex setups end up as a stack of workarounds piled on top of one another, each one something else that can break while you are nowhere near it. Flexitnode replaces the stack.

Whatever you already use to drive the radio: SmartSDR on a Windows PC or a Mac, SmartSDR on an iPad or iPhone, or your Maestro. Nothing extra to install: simply log in with Flex SmartLink and you are done. It works the way it does at home.

Bonus things you can do!

Once the radio is reachable from anywhere, it stops being just your radio when you want it to be.

Get in touch Built by an operator who runs remote stations, because this problem needed solving.