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20040812: NOAAPORT Evolution-IMPORTANT!!!

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NOXX10KWBC 121647
DATA MGT MESSAGE 08-04.06

TO  AWIPS/NOAAPORT USERS.. FAMILY OF SERVICES/FOS/SUBSCRIBERS...
EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK /EMWIN/
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE /NWS/ CUSTOMERS... WAFS USERS...
GTS USERS... NWS FAX CHART USERS

FROM RTH WASHINGTON DATA MANAGEMENT

SUBJECT NOAAPORT EVOLUTION

REFERENCE NOTICE  DM04-03.01
REFERENCE NOTICE  DM07-03.01
REFERENCE NOTICE  DM04-04.01

NOAAPORT EVOLUTION UPDATE

AS THE INVESTIGATION OF THE NEW DVB-S TECHNOLOGY HAS PROGRESSED... IT
HAS BECOME
APPARENT THAT SOME OF THE DATES... PHASES... AND PLANNED OPERATIONAL
CAPABILITIES FROM THE ORIGINAL NOTICE NEED TO BE CHANGED.  THE ORIGINAL
NOTICES
/DM04-03.01/DM07-03.01/DM04-04.01 CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE DATA
MANAGEMENT
NOTICES PAGE AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATION LISTED BELOW.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/datamgmt/notices.shtml

THE FOLLOWING CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE ORIGINAL NOAAPORT EVOLUTION
NOTICE

PHASE 8
TRANSMISSION OF NOAAPORT WILL BEGIN ON A SINGLE CHANNEL WITH AN
EQUIVALENT 6 T1
CAPACITY. THE SINGLE CHANNEL WILL BE ON THE SAME SATELLITE... BUT ON A
DIFFERENT
TRANSPONDER THAT IS CURRENTLY USED... USING THE DVB-S TECHNOLOGY.  THE
SPECIFIC
TRANSPONDER WILL BE DETERMINED AT A LATER DATE. 1/17/05

PHASE 9
SHUT DOWN ALL OLD NOAAPORT CHANNELS. END OF ALL LEGACY NOAAPORT
CHANNELS. ALL NOAAPORT USERS MUST HAVE DVB-S CAPABILITY BY THIS DATE!
2/28/05

PHASE 10 (NEW)
DEPENDING ON THE INTERNAL NWS PERFORMANCE LEVEL OF THE NEW DVB-S
CHANNEL/TRANSPONDER... A DECISION WILL BE MADE WHETHER TO MIGRATE THE
SINGLE
DVB-S CHANNEL BACK TO THE ORIGINAL TRANSPONDER AND OVERLAP THE LEGACY
NOAAPORT
CHANNEL FREQUENCIES. IF THE DECISION TO MIGRATE BACK TO THE OLD
TRANSPONDER IS
MADE... DUAL DVB-S SPACE SEGMENT OPERATION WILL BEGIN ON BOTH OLD AND
NEW
TRANSPONDERS. 3/7/05

PHASE 11 (NEW)
IF THE DECISION WAS MADE TO MIGRATE THE DVB-S NOAAPORT TRANSMISSION BACK
TO THE
OLD TRANSPONDER IN 10 ABOVE... NOAAPORT TRANSMISSION ON THE NEW
TRANSPONDER WILL
CEASE. 3/31/05

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE /BASED ON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF EACH
EARLIER PHASE/

PHASE 2        COMPLETE
PHASE 3        COMPLETE
PHASE 4        COMPLETE
PHASE 5        COMPLETE
PHASE 6        COMPLETE
PHASE 7        ELIMINATED
PHASE 8        1/17/05
PHASE 9        2/28/05
PHASE 10       3/7/05
PHASE 11       3/31/05

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS NOTICE. PLEASE CONTACT:

PHIL CRAGG
E-MAIL  Phil.Cragg@xxxxxxxx
PHONE NUMBER  /301/ 713-1570 X134

THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED ON THE NWS DATA MANAGEMENT
NOTICES WEB PAGE. THE URL IS LISTED BELOW.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/datamgmt/notices.shtml

DATA MANAGEMENT
TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATIONS CENTER
RTH WASHINGTON SENDS



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