[EAS] [BC] What's the point of LP-1s anymore?

[Bill Ruck]

Mike,

There are advantages to an IP based mesh system but the cost of 
building and maintaining your own private system will make that 
really difficult.

Relying on AT&T or Verizon or Comcast or any other ISP for your 
Internet access is likely less reliable than whatever Ma Bell is left 
in your area.  So far I've had amazing reliability and speed with 
Sonic's fiber but they only serve a limited area.  Sonic depends on 
aerial spans for delivery and lesson learned from the Sonoma fire is 
that aerial is the first to go in a big fire.

Perhaps FirstNet might provide the necessary connectivity but (1) it 
is still a fantasy and (2) may cover much of the population but that 
leaves a substantial part of the US without service.  There are too 
many places that are not a "major metropolitan area" that need 
working warning systems.  For example, the west half of Marin County 
and the west half of San Mateo County suffers from poor cell coverage 
and those two counties are part of the San Francisco Bay Area.  Now 
consider Alpine County, California.  They'll never see any benefit 
from FirstNet but have the same needs as the east half of Marin and 
San Mateo counties.  My estimate is that more than half of California 
will not get FirstNet.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco

At 04:52 PM 11/5/2017, you wrote:
>  . . .
>
>I'm thinking more along the lines of private LAN/WAN/VLAN that allows
>messages to still get out to the media. Something of a streamlined MESH
>system ideally. Or at minimum, p2p to the LP1/LP2 in a broadcast mode.