EMWIN ByteBlaster Internet File Push

Heavy Great Lakes Snow through Friday; Watching Potential for Major Winter Storm Late Week into this Weekend

Heavy lake effect snow will continue in the Great Lakes into Wednesday before another storm brings a widespread general snow followed by another round of heavy lake effect snow. A wide-ranging winter storm will produce great swaths of heavy snow, sleet, and treacherous freezing rain from the southern Rockies/Plains and Mid-South starting Friday and shifting toward the East Coast through Sunday. Read More >

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Assists in reassignment of clients when a registered server is no longer active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