[196018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Information about the national test of the Emergency Alert System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike.lyon@gmail.com)
Thu Sep 28 05:22:51 2017
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From: mike.lyon@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <CAEE+rGqK02M3p5A=sTh=21VBNs2hhPaK2fZwPXMMDvh9mi7APQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:08:42 -0700
To: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Went through this AM. Here in the SF BA, alerts went out on the airwaves aro=
und 11:20am today.
-Mike
> On Sep 27, 2017, at 21:01, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> w=
rote:
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> I didn't see a blip on my TV, or hear anything on the local radio
> stations. I didn't even get an alert on my cell phone. Did I miss
> it, or did it get cancelled?
>=20
> -A
>=20
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> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>>> And your upstream(s) to work. And their upstream(s) to work. etc. If 90%=
>>> of the stations in the EAS web are down you may end up with nothing work=
ing.
>>=20
>>=20
>> 6% of TV stations are operating in Puerto Rico
>> 15% of radio stations are operating in Puerto Rico
>>=20
>> Nationally, there are about 28,000 cable systems, radio and television
>> stations.
>>=20
>> This test will not use the FEMA primary entry point system, so its only a=
>> partial test of the national EAS.
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>> Today's national test of the Emergency Alert System will be the same as t=
he
>> 2016 national test. It is a partial test of the EAS, using the FEMA IPAW=
S
>> system over the internet (i.e. Akamai and Cloudfront are used as CDNs) to=
>> the distribute the emergency test message. Cable, radio and TV stations n=
eed
>> a working Internet connection as well as radio receivers and transmitters=
>> for IPAWS and EAS.
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>> Although the national test was scheduled back in July, its still a good t=
est
>> opportunity to see how the internet and EAS works in Puerto Rico and the
>> U.S. VI with so much damage to the infrastructure. The one minute nationa=
l
>> test should not intefere with disaster recovery efforts in PR or USVI.
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>> For more information:
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>> https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/09/19/mandatory-nationwide-test-em=
ergency-alert-system-be-conducted-september-27
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>> https://www.fcc.gov/document/nationwide-emergency-alert-system-test-plann=
ed-september-27
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