Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-10-02 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:22:43 -0600 Pete Ashdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My cursory investigations reveal there is no apparent alternative to Cidera in the US right now. I'd be interested in talking to anyone who knows the technology behind uplinking a newsfeed in order to replace

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-10-02 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I have found a possible source of satellite bandwidth for this, assuming a critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay for it. Interested parties should send me an email off list please. If a critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-10-02 Thread Robert Boyle
At 02:57 PM 10/2/2003, you wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I have found a possible source of satellite bandwidth for this, assuming a critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay for it. Interested parties should send me an email off list please. If a critical mass of

RE: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-10-02 Thread Alexander Kiwerski
] Subject: Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I have found a possible source of satellite bandwidth for this, assuming a critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay for it. Interested parties should send me an email off list please

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-10-02 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:57:16 -0400 (EDT) Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I have found a possible source of satellite bandwidth for this, assuming a critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay for it. Interested parties should send

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-10-02 Thread Gerald
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Robert Boyle wrote: Something about a DS3 of bandwidth for an ihave news feed for $350-500/month was mentioned At the last company I worked for, I replaced our terrestrial news feeds with Cidera. The first flyer we received from them they were called Skycache, but they

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-10-02 Thread Adam Maloney
Only complaints I had about their service before I left were they wouldn't offer a filter before transmission service. It would have cut down on the transmit load and saved some time for my news server if they were filtering before it got to me. I think they couldn't do this because it was a

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-10-02 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:55, Adam Maloney wrote: It was extremely nice to take the NNTP load off of our upstream links when we first set it up. As I understood it, they were not doing well on binary feeds towards the end there though. I think they ended up filtering posts over a certain

Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-09-30 Thread Jeffrey Wheat
Since Cidera is going offline again, I am in need of seeking an alternative. Does anyone know of a non-land line based news feed? With the tremendous amount of news that we pull a day, I am not willing to spend the kind of money that would be required to sustain the same amount of traffic over

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Irving
If you are at an exchange, we can do the old days type usenet peering... We (operators) used to have a full mesh along the core prior to Cidera Much of that is disassembled It will now probably be re-assembled. (Heavens knows I am FWIW. :) Anyone interested , private

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-09-30 Thread Pete Ashdown
My cursory investigations reveal there is no apparent alternative to Cidera in the US right now. I'd be interested in talking to anyone who knows the technology behind uplinking a newsfeed in order to replace Cidera's news service. I'd guess there is a whole lot of infrastructure on the client