I would say it's likely much larger. https://twitter.com/CoasterBGW/status/1336387160220569603/photo/1 Their design is to run everything from one datacenter? I am enjoying the level of irony that the rest of us consider catastrophic weather events in our datacenter planning, but the NWS does not. I'm sure like most things with technology and government it's less about desire and more about politics of proper funding. On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:40 AM Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
Simply get rid of the gigabytes of JavaScript and stupidly designed crap and hire someone who knows what they are doing and a bandwidth DOWNGRADE will be in order. The root cause is incompetence and it can be fixed by getting rid of all the children and hiring someone who knows what they are doing.
-- Be decisive. Make a decision, right or wrong. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision.
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+kmedcalf=dessus.com@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec Sent: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 01:13 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <farber@gmail.com> -----
From: Dave Farber <farber@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:47:44 +0900 Subject: [IP] Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data The National Weather Service is proposing to place limits on accessing its life-saving weather data in a bid to fix Internet outages. By Jason Samenow and Andrew Freedman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/09/nws-data-limits- internet-bandwidth/
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This seems like a problem that this group could solve rather rapidly with minimal incremental expense. It also seems like one that's very much worth solving.
---rsk