[EAS] Activity at the FCC

[Adrienne Abbott]

        And, it was a government official who was
        "apparently" surprised to learn that  
        there were many stations with no 
        Internet access - or at best merely 
        expensive satellite connections. 
 
Ta-Dah!

And it's not just the broadcasters. There are public safety, law enforcement
and emergency management agencies across the West who are in the same
situation. And it's not likely to change given the economic climate and
budget demands.

But even worse than no Internet access is unreliable Internet access...you
sorta have it, and now you're connecting your CAP equipment to it knowing
that when things get tough, it might not be there...backhoe fade, weather
problems, power outages, too many demands for service...You know it's going
to be in and out during an emergency and there will always be critics who
want to know why you didn't use the Internet for such and such. Very
frustrating...
Adrienne



"Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it requires
constant attention, but we love it." Jim Aaron WGLN 


-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of k7cr
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 9:53 PM
To: The EAS Forum - accurate and up-to-date information on the EAS andits
implementation
Subject: Re: [EAS] Activity at the FCC

Barry wrote - 
> 
>        I believe one government worker did suggest
>        that EAS boxes might need more than one 
>        RJ45, so that two separate Internet access points
>        were possible. 
 
This is true.   Apparently the Sage has this dialed in.
Presently most Washington State EAS boxes are using 
one port for -polling - the CAP Server.   This is a nice way
to do things as it deals with firewalls and eliminates issues
with Static IP's etc.    Other systems that the box may be
connected to may well be different.   Don't forget that 
a station will connect the new box to their network for 
a number of reasons.

>        And, it was a government official who was
>        "apparently" surprised to learn that  
>        there were many stations with no 
>        Internet access - or at best merely 
>        expensive satellite connections. 

The bottom line is that there are likely far more stations
that can get Internet access than connect to a system 
any other way....That is unless you want to try and 
use POTS.    The Daisy Chain won't work due to the 
thru-put requirement of CAP.   I can just imagine how
long it would take to transfer the data in a CAP message
that contained an MP-3 or Wave file using POTS.   
Then there is DSL, but with that you have decent Internet
speed...Likely around 1.5 mps.

Clay 
 
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