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Hi Blair, We appreciate the bandwidth and I am certain the community does as well :) > We've been serving the LDM/UNIDATA community for about 5 years now with > free bandwidth for a lot of people, and I was hoping we could get primary > feeds from some UCAR/UNIDATA servers for these trees: > > IDS|DDPLUS > CONDUIT > > ...and possibly NEXRAD2. It appears as if you are already getting: IDS|DDPLUS CONDUIT and NEXRAD2 via our top tier site Texas A & M. Are you experiencing difficulties with these feeds? > We're interested in these servers in particular: > tampa-fl-1.ldm.updraft.us [206.51.238.220] > albany-ny-1.ldm.updraft.us [173.233.71.110] > chicago-il-1.ldm.updraft.us [166.78.240.196] > > You can check the history, but Tampa has been around since mid-2008. All > three are symmetric 100Mbps servers with open feed/peering for any and all > academic/government/nonprofit entities. > > We're also planning to add/donate at least one 1Gbps server in the next > quarter, which may be of some use in getting out the higher bandwidth feeds > like NEXRAD2...and we'd gladly volunteer our bandwidth to aid in > distribution. > > -- > Blair Trosper > Weather Data / Updraft Networks > address@hidden <address@hidden> > NOC: 512-666-0536 > Let us know if you are not getting what you need from A & M and we can help sort that out, they have great connectivity and get the full boat of data, so you should be able to get full data satisfaction. ;) Curious...are you currently feeding any .edu's from any of your machines? Cheers, Jeff Jeff Weber Unidata User Support http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: OBI-925465 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Open