[EAS] CAP Polling Interval Questions

[ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com]

Alex - please do not construe my comments to be defense of the IPAWS architecture, or any state architecture for that matter.  

As someone working for a manufacturer of CAP EAS encoder/decoders, our task is designing the "client" not the server.

We've been told that the IPAWS alerts will be published via RSS feed (the example of an email server doesn't fit here - web server is more like it).  The government's task is to design their own architecture that can take a minimum of 31,000 web hits.  That is not huge compared to some systems out there - as a loose comparison, Akamai right now in the week hours of the morning is handling 1.89 million views per minute, for substantially heavier content than the RSS XML feed that IPAWS will be publishing.  They handled a peak of 3.59 million VM today.

Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D.
Senior Director - Strategy, Development and Regulatory Affairs
Monroe Electronics, Inc. / Digital Alert Systems
ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com

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