Availability Zones

The Phantom Bridge cloud infrastructure is hosted at various locations around the world to minimize lag and speed up downloads. When using over a local network, P2P connection is preferably established and geographical distance to servers plays a very small role. When teleoperating a remote machine or connecting via a TURN server, physical distance is much more important.

Below is the list of currenlty available locations. The closest one to your robot is automatically selected on machine registration, and can be also changed later. TURN servers are selected automatically.

Location	Bridge Server	TURN Servers	Response time (HTTP)
California, USA	us-ca.bridge.phntm.io	us-ca.turn.phntm.io
Ohio, USA	us-oh.bridge.phntm.io	us-oh.turn.phntm.io
Switzerland, Europe	eu-ch.bridge.phntm.io	eu-ch.turn.phntm.io
Korea, Asia	asia-kr.bridge.phntm.io	asia-kr.turn.phntm.io

To change which Bridge Server your ROS machine connects to, simply edit the bridge_server_address parameter in your phntm_bridge.yaml config file, then restart the Bridge Client node and reload the Web UI.

phntm_bridge.yaml

 /**:
   ros__parameters:

     bridge_server_address: https://us-ca.bridge.phntm.io # the Bridge Server instance to connect to

Our aim is to provide a geographically well distributed service, we will be launching more regional instances and TURN servers depending on user demand and feedback. Please get in touch either by or by opening an issue on GitHub to discuss this further.