[EAS] What About Legacy for the NPT?

[Allen Sherrill]

Gonna be really interesting to see how the CAP servers hold up when thousands of EAS boxes are requesting downloads of the same audio file.  

We have had a couple of Amber alerts go south in the last week because the audio file download timed out.

Allen Sherrill

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Ed Czarnecki <ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com> wrote:
>That is what I would expect, NPTs from OTA as well as CAP ... it will be a
>race condition between the EAS relay and CAP polling.  Stations may well
>receive the EAS message first, if their IPAWS polling does not happen first.
>"Transmit immediately" really makes this a race.