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Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. Read More >

EMWIN ByteBlaster

Internet File Push

 

• Byte Blaster:

 

     – Client/Server Internet Based Service (NWS is one of many participants)

          • Client software is used to receive products from other servers

          • Local server may have many clients - when a file is received it is immediately re-distributed      

          • A server may collect products from different sources (e.g., satellite broadcast, local LAN, or as a client to another ByteBlaster server)

          • Multiple daisy chains are possible: Server -> Client/Server -> Client/Server ->…    

       – LoadMaster (NWS )

          • Agent for load balancing clients on registered servers

          • Assists in reassignment of clients when a registered server is no longer active
 

• Future Service Outlook:

 

     – IDP Environment does not currently support the Windows environment.

     – Existing operational IDP file-push protocol (e.g., XMPP) does not adequately support binary file transfer today.

     – Alternative 1: Switch to NWWS End User Client software to receive a portion of the EMWIN distribution

          • Provides an Internet push of all EMWIN US-National text products, and then some

          • Does not include EMWIN International or Image Products

     – Alternative 2: Continue to operate client/server networks in absence of the NWS ByteBlaster Servers and LoadMaster.