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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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