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TO - ALL AWIPS CUSTOMERS
SUBJECT - NESDIS/ESPC Partner Zone Network Outage - August 1, 2012
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Product/Data Impacted: -- Products/data received or disseminated to select
partners
-1- AWIPS text products,
-2- EMWIN re-broadcasts and environmental products
-3- Jason-2 products,
-4- Wallops CIP-Products
Date/Time of Initial Impact: -- August 1, 2012 1600 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: -- August 1, 2012 1730 UTC
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Details/Specifics of Change: The NESDIS Environmental Satellite Processing
Center
-ESPC- is planning a network outage for August 1, 2012, between 1600 -1730 UTC
to
upgrade the Partner Zone network. This upgrade impacts the network router and
firewall components. We realize this temporary product outage may cause some
inconvenience, and we appreciate your understanding as we work to increase
system
reliability for the future.
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Products/data received or disseminated to the following users will be impacted
during this network upgrade:
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-1- National/Naval Ice Center (NIC) - AutoSnowIce and IMS products will be
....available.
-2- The National Weather Service Telecommunication Gateway (NWSTG) - nport5
....will NOT be available.
-3- Jason-2 Users - All product distribution and reception will be delayed
....for the duration of the network outage, but no products will be lost.
-4- AWIPS Users - Text data only will be impacted. AWIPS imagery data will
....NOT be impacted. N-AWIPS will NOT be impacted.
-5- Meteo-France - All products that go to them through a point-to-point
....connection (data distribution circuits) will be impacted. At the
....moment, we would not know which passes would be delayed or missed.
-6- UK's National Weather Service (UKMET) - All products (including HRPT data)
....that go to them through a point-to-point connection (data distribution
....circuits) will be impacted. At the moment, we would not know which passes
....would be delayed or missed.
-7- European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
....(EUMETSAT) EARS System - All products that go to them through a
....point-to-point connection (data distribution circuits) will be impacted
....for the duration of the network outage.
-8- LRIT (EMWIN) - EMWIN re-broadcasts and environmental products will NOT
....be delivered for the duration of the network outage.
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Please note: No backup capabilities exist for individual network zones within
the
ESPC operational network. Any users not listed above should not experience a
disruption in communications via the ESPC Partner Zone. If you have any specific
questions, please contact User Services at SPSD.Userservices@xxxxxxxx between
7:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. (EDT), Monday through Friday, at least 24 hours prior to
the scheduled start of the outage.
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THANK YOU.
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