[EAS] CAP Polling Interval Questions

[Alex Hartman]

Eric,

I had similar thoughts as well. Or, what about the station in
backwoods Montana that has nothing more than a consumer DSL line (a
bad one at that) and while the president wants to address the nation,
the station is downloading it's overnight programming for instance,
saturating the DSL link?

Even a push system from a central point is still a bad idea. It has
the same flaws outlined above. The other reason a "push" method would
be a worse idea is then every station would then have to have holes
punched into their firewalls to allow the traffic AND be registered
with the central server. Given how many misconfigured things i run
across in a given day, i can see that being catastrophic.

--
Alex Hartman
KVSC Radio

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Eric Adler <EAdler at wskg.org> wrote:
> This discussion of routing has me thinking again:
> Why a polling system?  Why not a push system?
>
> Also, I see problems for stations with cable modems hitting their packet-limit and dropping packets (which may affect the station's existing traffic and/or the CAP retreival traffic, causing additional delays).  If they want to require a robust network connection, they should be providing it.  Otherwise, why not simply mass push the messages to broadcasters (and other low-latency media) via satellite?
>
> Eric
>
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