[132911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Thu Dec 2 16:52:08 2010
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:50:32 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
In-Reply-To: <4CF80BFE.1090801@brightok.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jack Bates wrote:
> What would be really awesome (unless I've missed it) is Internet access to
> the emergency broadcast system and local weather services; all easily handled
> with multicast.
NWS transmits their NOAAPORT data as a multicast stream from geostationary
satellites. All someone has to do (actually it would make more sense if
NOAA/NWS did this themselves and bypass the satellites) is to gateway that
stuff onto the Internet MBONE. NOAAPORT already has globally-assigned
multicast addresses and port numbers reserved for it.
Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp: tony@lava.net
