Upgrading eskinews

[Eskimo North Support <support@eskimo.com>]

We're currently in the process of upgrading the equipment on Eskinews.
The info we posted earlier about this upgrade follows:

     Eskinews is also going to be moved from the existing 4/670MP to an
SS-10, this will enable us to use all four CPU's instead of just two, will
double the speed of one of the two disk controllers, and provide more bus
bandwidth, all of which should be conducive to better news processing.  I
am also talking to Skycache about a possible satellite news feed, pending
a site survey that hopefully will resolve long standing problems with the
feed from Sprint.  They are also upgrading their equipment to provide a
45mb/s feed and that will provide capabilities like web and ftp cache
pre-loading which ultimately could save us some bandwidth down the road. A
full news feed if it were actually coming down the pipe at the full rate
would eat up approximately 2.3mb/s of bandwidth which would fully saturate
one T1 and part of a second.  So long term I really don't see any cost
effective alternatives.  When we know what kind of feed rate we will
really be getting we'll work on the disk issue.  There have been a number
of new larger drives recently on the market that would enable an economic
expansion of the spool.


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