Hi Gilbert and everyone,
While I haven't seen this one yet myself till now, this story has been
playing out for a little while as the article alludes to. I'm less
concerned about this for NOAAPort, we've seen that our 5G filters have done
incredible jobs, but you are right that there are concerns. But based on
that article my bet is any migrations with C-band allocations would
_probably_ happen after NOAAPort goes offline. Hopefully.
This might be a hot take, but I believe that NOAAPort should go away. It
has served us well for neigh on 30 years now but it's time to move on...
past time, really. We are now under two years to go before it gets
decommissioned if that schedule holds, but like you said we aren't hearing
much about what's coming next. On that I have some thoughts...
The timing here is pretty funny actually; I'm working on a presentation
that I'll give in about two weeks where I'll be discussing this exact
topic, and what I believe the future could look like post-SBN.
Coincidentally that'll also be on the first day for Unidata Fall Joint
Committee meetings. I'm hoping it will get live streamed, or at least
recorded, and if that happens I'll share the link(s) here; I think it's
related enough.
What I'll say now though is while I do have some concerns, I am also VERY
excited for what will come next. I might be wrong but I think we're about
to see a modernization overhaul to our industry's data flow and
visualization techniques. We're still attached to NOAAPort at the hip so
it's difficult for us to see past it, but a lot has happened in recent
years and decades with massive advancements in computer tech, the internet
and web app capabilities to name a few. Other industries, biotech is a
great example, have some impressive tools to view their Big Data sets, and
they are incredibly close to what we'd want to use for our data.
Either way though, like Gilbert said, these are things we need to pay
attention to in the event timelines accelerate or plans change. Hopefully
this will be an agenda item for the Committee Meetings and we'll hear more
from Unidata leadership in the comings weeks with their thoughts on the
subject.
Best,
-Mike
On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM Sebenste, Gilbert <sebensteg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good evening everyone,
>
> I had been meaning to post this article, and I apologize for not doing so
> sooner. I wanted to bring up something that we'll have to keep an eye on.
> As many of you know, NOAAport is scheduled to go bye-bye in a few years as
> AWIPS pulls it's data from online sources in the not-too-distant future,
> instead of NOAAport.
>
> But it could happen even sooner than that. The cellular/wireless industry
> is pushing the FCC hard to get rid of the 3.8-4.4 ghZ band that television
> networks, NOAAport and others use...to repurpose for 5G and 6G cellular use.
>
> For it's part, the television industry is rejecting it, saying that they
> don't have anywhere else to go; fiber is not as reliable for delivering
> video and audio on a 24/7/365 environment where the broadcast simply must
> get through. I agree with that point.
>
> But the FCC wants them, and NOAAport, and everything else in those
> frequencies to switch to fiber, possibly as early as next year.
>
> The question is, what will replace NOAAport? That remains a mystery.
>
>
> https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/airwaves-battle-brews-over-upper-c-band-at-fcc
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