[nws-changes] 20111223: ISCS broadcast ending-replaced by GTS Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20111223: ISCS broadcast ending-replaced by GTS Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
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• Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:46:46 -0700

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NOUS41 KWBC 231157
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Service Change Notice 11-44
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
657 AM EST Fri Dec 23 2011

TO:       Regional Meteorological Telecommunications Network
          (RMTN) Users of the International Satellite
          Communications System (ISCS) in WMO Regions III and IV

FROM:     Craig Hodan
          Chief, NWS Dissemination Systems Branch

SUBJECT:  ISCS Broadcast Ending and Being Replaced by the
          GTS Internet File Service (GIFS) Effective
          June 30, 2011

ISCS Broadcast will end June 30, 2012, when the FAA ISCS
contract expires. NWS is replacing the ISCS satellite broadcast
service, which provides meteorological and aviation weather
products to WMO Regional Association IV members and
participating states, with the Global Telecommunication System
(GTS) Internet File Service (GIFS)

GIFS will make the ISCS broadcast products available for
download via https over the Internet as a data pull service.
GIFS will allow the current set of WMO Regional Association IV
(RA-IV) ISCS users and other select Member States to access
products through the NWS issuance of authorized service
usernames and passwords. The new system will be available for
preliminary use and assessment by April 1, 2012. All RA-IV
ISCS users will need to transition from ISCS to GIFS by
June 30, 2012.

Coordinating information and status updates on the GIFS
implementation and transition is provided on the NWS ISCS
Webpage:

  http://www.weather.gov/iscs/countdown.php

This Website will be updated to keep you informed on the
schedule, progress and status of this transition.

If you have questions or comments, please contact:

  Robert Gillespie, PMP
  Program Manager, ISCS
  Silver Spring, MD 20910
  301-713-9478 x 140
  robert.gillespie@xxxxxxxx

National Service Change Notices are online at:

  http://weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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