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This came out from the National Weather Service early this morning... very interesting! This summer, NOAAport is going from 30 mb/sec to 60+ mb/sec (DVB-S2 can handle bursts up to 100 mb/sec). I don't know where the NWS got the funding for this, but this news is significant and wonderful! And for those of you who get the NOAAport feed, all you need to do is point your receiver (for most of you, that's the Novra box) to the new frequency to get it (and get a new ingester box if it's a clunky Pentium 4, but otherwise, no other changes need to be made). EXCEPT...of course....make sure you have the bandwidth to handle this! This doubles and, in peak bursts, triples what you are seeing now coming across the feed. ------------------------------------------------------ ^A 801 NOXX01 KWBC 261145 FROM.....NWSTG TO.......ALL SUBJECT..SBN/NOAAPORT EXPANSION UPDATE NOTICE 001 THE AWIPS PROGRAM OFFICE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF EXPANDING THE AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH ON THE AWIPS SATELLITE BROADCAST NETWORK SBN/NOAAPORT FEED TO ABOVE 60MBPS. AS PART OF THIS EXPANSION, THE FEED WILL CONTINUE TO USE THE CURRENT DVB/S2 STANDARD AS WELL AS POINT TO THE SES1 SATELLITE. THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AS WELL AS UPDATES ON THE SBN EXPANSION PROJECT WILL BE POSTED ON OUR WEBPAGE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. A 45 DAY WINDOW OF DUAL ILLUMINATION WILL BE ACTIVATED FROM AUGUST 17, 2014 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 TO ALLOW AMPLE TIME FOR ALL NWS AND NOAAPORT CUSTOMERS TO COMPLETE THE TRANSITION. DURING THIS PERIOD, THE FULL SBN/NOAAPORT FEED WILL BE AVAILABLE ON TWO DIFFERENT DOWNLINK FREQUENCIES. ON OCTOBER 1, 2014, THE SBN/NOAAPORT FEED WILL ONLY BE DISSEMINATED VIA THE NEW TRANSPONDER SUPPORTING THE NEW BANDWIDTH CAPABILITY. THE INCREASED SBN/NOAAPORT BANDWIDTH WILL ALLOW FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF A WIDE RANGE OF NEW AND ENHANCED WEATHER PRODUCTS. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTACT US VIA EMAIL AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS. NWS.NOAAPORT.SUPPORT -AT- NOAA.GOV NWSTG/KMC ------------------------------------------------------ ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NIU_Weather ** Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/niu.weather * *******************************************************************************
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