EMWIN ByteBlaster Internet File Push

Pacific Storm Moves Inland; Clipper System for the Northeast; Strong Storm Impacting Alaska

In Alaska, a powerful storm will bring dangerous seas, blizzard conditions, strong winds and bitterly cold across the state through mid-week. Meanwhile, Pacific storm will move inland across California with lower elevation rain and accumulating mountain snow; Strong winds will affect the central Great Basin. A clipper system to bring snow and gusty winds for the Northeast corridor into Wednesday. 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Assists in reassignment of clients when a registered server is no longer active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.