[EAS] Single point entry of CAP messages

[Alan Kline]

Well, I don't have any ideas on how to do it--that would be up to our 
in-house IT guy working with corporate IT. The question in my mind would 
be, "In an emergency that would warrant a CAP activation, what assurance 
do we have that the corporate WAN would be available to deliver it?" The 
problem with our local cable broadband connection--where most of the 
station's websurfing is done--is that when folks in the newsroom all 
want to stream the same thing at once, our connection becomes 
overloaded. Can we rely on that for CAP?

Our DASDEC is actually already connected to the corporate WAN for the 
purpose of emailing alerts and logs to me and others in the building. 
But I don't know if that connection is also used for CAP ingest.

The third choice, a dedicated connection by another means, has its own 
issues with costs and technical complications. I just don't think we 
have any of those answers yet for our situation.

ak

On 5/19/2011 1:39 PM, Alex Hartman wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Care to share some of your ideas on the corporate WAN? I'm a state
> university with similar issues. My real only recourse was to get a
> "segregated" IP from the university that doesn't touch anything
> internally, which means i have to use a USB printer or something of
> the like since i cannot network print being off in this "DMZ" of
> sorts.
>
> I'd like to put it on my local LAN internally, but the university is
> skittish about allowing a linux box (essentially) sit there in the
> wild.
>
> --
> Alex Hartman
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Alan Kline<broadcast at snugglebunny.us>  wrote:
>> And there are still a *lot* of unanswered questions about how we're
>> going to make this thing work. Last week, I was talking to our TX
>> supervisor (who's also the assistant CO) about how we're planning to get
>> our DASDEC connected to the Internet--through the corporate WAN, the
>> local cable modem, or a dedicated connection by another means. All have
>> pros and cons that we have to weigh. Discussions like this allow us all
>> to compare notes...
>>
>> For the record, I'm not complaining about CAP--at least, not yet. I
>> recognize the need for moving forward, and like everyone else, our
>> trusty TFT 911 is due for retirement. And personally, I'm thrilled to
>> have a box that allows me to replace our handwritten EAS test logs with
>> one printout that I just have to initial and put in the book...
>>
>> ak
>>
>> On 5/19/2011 1:20 PM, Alex Hartman wrote:
>>> You're right, it is our reality, but it's threads like this that allow
>>> the ideas and information to flow with the people who have to deal
>>> with it day in and day out on how to implement the reality and make it
>>> work effectively. Hell, who knows, maybe it'll catch the eyes of
>>> someone at FEMA/DHS and realize how big of a cluster they're making
>>> it, and when they go to revise it in a decade, remember what we say,
>>> and learn from their mistakes.
>>>
>>> Complaining about the inevitable is how the inevitable changes,
>>> inevitably. If nobody complained, there would be no ideas on
>>> improvement. :) So no, this thread is not a waste of time.
>>
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