Mike, I help run KRYZ LPFM, we run two simultaneous streams with buffering from two locations/providers to prevent these issues. StereoTool is what we use to create and send the encoded data streams. Even then we can/do have upstream provider issues, so our second stream runs 'fill in' music that is hosted on a local hard drive. Most transmitters have this capability built in too, its better than dead air and we get notifications and fix things if we can or hassle our upstream. Having outages is life, preventing people noticing them is our job! https://www.thimeo.com/stereo-tool/ Colin Constable On Sun, Sep 14, 2025, 13:29 Mike Hammett via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
I have a radio station customer who is utilizing one of those streaming services to bring their broadcast station online. We've received a complaint of a half dozen or so 1-second drops in connectivity over the Internet to this streaming service in the six or so months they've been a customer. I consider that pretty amazing service delivery. However, the customer does not. I suspect this is a layer 8 issue, but what have your experiences been in these kinds of situations, and what technical remedies would be available? I don't know what sub-second failover systems exist, but I'm sure they're not cost-effective if they do.
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