Re: [ldm-users] Updraft reorganization, net network, and a need for peers

  • To: tenki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: [ldm-users] Updraft reorganization, net network, and a need for peers
  • From: Evan Breznyik <evan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:15:48 -0700
Ah, that had not occurred to me.  Thanks for reminding me.  We CC'ed them
on this thread and have a ticket open, but haven't yet heard back.  :)

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:14 AM James Murakami <tenki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Evan,
>
> Usually, many members of ldm-users offer feeds upon request, but being
> mid-summer, maybe they're on vacation...or maybe these messages are finding
> their way into a spam folder.
>
> You might try "support-idd.unidata.ucar.edu" to request a feed from
> Unidata (process I went through to get our feed).
>
> James
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> James Murakami
> Staff Meteorologist/Student Affairs
> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
> University of California, Los Angeles
> 405 Hilgard Ave.
> Los Angeles, CA  90095-1565
>
>
>    e-mail: tenki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> telephone: 310-825-2418
>       Fax: 310-206-5219
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> On 07/24/2018 08:57 AM, Evan Breznyik wrote:
>
> You may have it once it comes online.  Can you offer any advice on
> procuring peers from which to pull NEXRAD2, etc?
>
> ldm-users seems so quiet as of late, and UNIDATA isn't the most responsive
> organization...
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:54 AM James Murakami <tenki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Good morning Evan,
>>
>> Our connection isn't what you could call reliable (currently some campus
>> issue with the Internet flow), but our Department has a feed to Unidata (
>> idd.unidata.ucar.edu). We don't request everything you're requesting (no
>> NEXRAD2 and not all of CONDUIT data, to mention a couple). However, if you
>> just need data for testing of your system, I can provide a feed.
>>
>> In future, I'd be interested in a alternate feed from your L.A. server.
>>
>> James
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> James Murakami
>> Staff Meteorologist/Student Affairs
>> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
>> University of California, Los Angeles
>> 405 Hilgard Ave.
>> Los Angeles, CA  90095-1565
>>
>>
>>    e-mail: tenki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> telephone: 310-825-2418
>>       Fax: 310-206-5219
>> ----------------------------------------------
>>
>> On 07/22/2018 08:20 PM, Evan Breznyik wrote:
>>
>> Hello.  Let me introduce ... myself.  I've taken over management of
>> updraft.us.
>>
>> We've been quiet on the network as of late, but we're reorganizing and
>> deploying some 1Gbps servers starting with one in Los Angeles, CA (One
>> Wilshire, 40Gbps+ of BGP peers).
>>
>> We're in need of peers for all feeds, and we'd like to be multihomed if
>> possible for HDS, NGRIN, IDS|DDPLUS, WMO, UNIWISC, NEXRAD2, NEXRAD3, etc.
>>
>> Here's the benefits:  we'll peer with anyone and give you any feeds you
>> want provided:
>> - You've a genuine need and interest in having them.
>> - We have the bandwidth.
>> - It makes sense topologically from a network perspective.
>> - Priority will be given to universities/academia/government, then
>> private organizations (non-commercial) and finally commercial organizations.
>>
>> Our servers will be interconnected and anyone who's permitted to peer at
>> one location will have equivalent ALLOW entries on all our other
>> servers...same priority as above.  (There's only so much bandwidth.)
>>
>> We just need some assistance in getting ALLOW entries ourselves from
>> reliable peers.  Can anyone out there (or the powers-that-be at
>> UCAR/UNIDATA) give us a hand?  We'd like to give a lot more back to the LDM
>> community and make the network more robust and carry some of the weight as
>> a private organization to abate some of the burden from those who also
>> donate.
>>
>> Our ultimate goal:  *we'd like to be come a tier 2 or tier 1 backbone
>> provider* at some point.  We have plans to add gigabit (or better)
>> servers in the following locations as well over the next calendar 24 months
>> (each to be a minimum of 100Mbps to 1Gbps):
>> - New York, NY
>> - Atlanta, GA
>> - Tampa, FL
>> - Fremont, CA (SF Bay Area, California)
>> - Chicago, IL (CBOT)
>> - Potentially, locations with the US regions in Google Cloud Platform
>> (Oregon, Los Angeles, Omaha area, Charleston, SC area, Northern Virginia,
>> and any others that come online) for archival and pushing things like VCP
>> modes into Pub/Sub, to which access will be free.
>>
>> Thanks for the consideration.  We'll have our first gigabit server (Los
>> Angeles @ One Wilshire) online in the early days of August to begin our
>> experiment, but we're bereft of peers.  We thank TAMU for helping us
>> through the years, and we'll always miss bigbird.  :)
>>
>> We would also be interested in working on Sruth and sharing all our open
>> source code as well...including our LDM configuration real-time
>> orchestrator for adding/modifying peers to many servers at once.
>>
>> If anyone can help us (especially at UNIDATA/UCAR), please let us know.
>> Ideally, we'd like to start the Los Angeles server with at least 3 reliable
>> peers for the feeds listed above.
>>
>> Evan, Jared, and Kyle from Updraft Networks
>>
>>
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