This is primarily for those who receive NOAAport off a dish, but the
ramifications extend to the data coming across the LDM. It looks
like with this NWS action, dual-pole data gets pushed back until
late next spring at the earliest. And, beg your bosses for a DVB-S2
receiver for NOAAport now. You have until March 2011! End the rumors and
conflicting info: NOAAAport goes from 10.24 mb/sec to 30 mb/sec using
the DVB-S2 protocol in March 2011! Read on...
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Gilbert Sebenste ********
(My opinions only!) ******
Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University ****
E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ***
web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu **
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:22:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: LDM Weather <ldm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: NWS NOAAport message
580
NOXX10 KWBC 081521
DATA MGT MESSAGE 08-10.02
TO NOAAPORT USERS
FROM RTH WASHINGTON DATA MANAGEMENT
SUBJECT SBN/NOAAPORT EXPANSION AND HARDWARE
UPGRADE/NOTICE 001
EFFECTIVE DATE MARCH.. 2011
THE AWIPS PROGRAM OFFICE /APO/ IS PLANNING ON EXPANDING THE
BANDWIDTH ON THE AWIPS SATELLITE BROADCAST NETWORK
/SBN/NOAAPORT/ FEED FROM 10.24MBPS TO ABOUT 30MBPS.
AS PART OF THIS EXPANSION.. THE SBN/NOAAPORT FEED WILL ALSO BE
TRANSITIONING FROM THE CURRENT DVB-S STANDARD TO THE MORE
EFFICIENT DVB-S2 STANDARD. ACCORDINGLY ALL SITES WILL BE
REQUIRED TO UPGRADE THEIR HARDWARE TO SUPPORT THE DVB-S2 STANDARD.
AS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ARE FINALIZED AND HARDENED.. THE
APO WILL PROVIDE MONTHLY MESSAGE UPDATES VIA MULTIPLE
DISSEMINATION METHODS AS WELL AS THE NOAAPORT WEBPAGE
HTTP/COLON///WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/NOAAPORT/HTML/NOAAPORT.SHTML
TO AID OUR CUSTOMERS WITH THE TRANSITION.. THERE WILL BE A 30 DAY
WINDOW /MARCH 5TH 2011 ? APRIL 3RD 2011/ OF DUAL ILLUMINATION TO
ALLOW AWIPS SITES AND NOAAPORT CUSTOMERS ADEQUATE TIME TO
COMPLETE THE TRANSITION. DURING THIS TRANSITION PERIOD.. THE FULL
SBN/NOAAPORT FEED WILL BE DISSEMINATED BOTH IN DVB-S AND DVB-S2.
INTERNALLY.. NWS PLANS TO USE BACKWARDLY-COMPATIBLE
RECEIVE-SIDE HARDWARE /TO ENABLE THE EQUIPMENT TRANSITION TO
COMMENCE PRIOR TO THE DUAL ILLUMINATION PERIOD/.
THE DRIVING FORCE OF THIS BANDWIDTH EXPANSION AND HARDWARE
UPGRADE IS TO SUPPORT THE DISSEMINATION OF ADDITIONAL DATA
PRODUCTS OVER THE SBN / NOAAPORT SUCH AS
DUAL POLARIZATION RADAR PRODUCTS
GOES AND POES SATELLITE PRODUCTS
ANALYSIS AND FORECAST PRODUCTS /E.G. NCEP MODELS/
CURRENT PLANS DICTATE THAT ANY NEW.. VOLUMINOUS PRODUCT
ADDITIONS WILL NEED TO BE HELD TILL AFTER THE INITIAL SBN
BANDWIDTH EXPANSION PHASE HAS BEEN COMPLETED. THE SBN
PRODUCT ADDITIONS WILL BE DESCRIBED FURTHER IN SUBSEQUENT
NOTICES.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTACT
US VIA EMAIL AT THE FOLLOWING EMAIL ADDRESS
NWS.NOAAPORT.SUPPORT/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV
THANK YOU
NWS NOAAPORT SUPPORT TEAM
THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED ON THE NWS DATA MANAGEMENT
CHANGE NOTICES WEB PAGE. THE URL IS LISTED BELOW.
HTTP/COLON///WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/DATAMGMT/NOTICES.SHTML
DATA MANAGEMENT
TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATIONS CENTER
RTH WASHINGTON SENDS
