I've got plenty of spare capacity in Kenya - I can give them a couple of
Gbps for just US$1,000/month :-).
_classic_
Mark.
On 12/10/20 15:27, Mel Beckman wrote:
Something is stupidly wrong here. From a non-paywallled article (WaPo
blocks me from reading its content):
https://newsbeezer.com/aus/the-national-weather-service-is-facing-a-lack-of-internet-bandwidth-and-is-proposing-access-restrictions/
<https://newsbeezer.com/aus/the-national-weather-service-is-facing-a-lack-of-internet-bandwidth-and-is-proposing-access-restrictions/>
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The weather service hosted a public forum on Tuesday to discuss the
proposal and answer questions. When asked about the computer
infrastructure investments that would be required to keep these limits
off, agency officials said a one-time cost of approximately $ 1.5
million could prevent interest rate restrictions. The NOAA budget for
fiscal 2020 was $ 5.4 billion.
However, Buchanan stated that the real cost of solving the problem
would be higher since the $ 1.5 million would “be just one component
of a multi-faceted solution.”
Forum officials also said that management of the weather service was
aware of the relatively low cost of solving the problem, but that the
agency was facing “competing priorities”.
Buchanan said that dissemination of data is a priority for the weather
service’s leadership, but that it is “continually” weighed against others.
When asked if Congress was aware of the agency’s data dissemination
challenges, forum officials said they did not know.
Senator Maria Cantwell (Washington), a Democrat on the Senate Commerce
Committee that oversees NOAA, said a request to upgrade the weather
service’s computer infrastructure would likely receive non-partisan
support.
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This is either some kind of bizarre political maneuver, or bureaucrats
at NWS need to be seriously fired and replaced with competent people
who‘s tech jobs have been waylaid by Covid.
Obviously it’s a trivial task to fix delivery capacity, if it will
only cost $1.5 million to an agency with a $5.4 */billion/* budget.
And how does a 2000-employee agency blow through $5.4 billion a year
anyway?
This stinks to high heaven.
-mel via cell
On Dec 10, 2020, at 12:15 AM, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote:
Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting
key data
