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Joint ICT GTS-WIS MTN and ET-GTS WIS OIChris Little, The Met Office

23-26 September 2008 Geneva, Switzerland

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Contents

The Met Office [UK] RTH Status Report

• RTH & NMS connectivity from Exeter

• Message switching systems – Frost

• File switching systems – DART

• E-Mail gateway systems - IronPort

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RTH GTS connectivity from Exeter

RTH Connection Circuits Protocol Infrastructure Type

Melbourne, Australia CCT = 256Kbytes

IP BW = 256Kbytes

Alphanumeric

GRIB

T4

IP sockets Frame Relay RTH

Toulouse, France CCT = 3.75Mbytes

IP BW = 3Mbytes

Alphanumeric

GRIB

T4

FTP RMDCN RTH

Offenbach, Germany CCT = 2Mbytes

IP BW = 2Mbytes

Alphanumeric

GRIB

T4

FTP RMDCN / Internet backup

RTH

Rome, Italy CCT = 2Mbytes

IP BW = 2Mbytes

All data FTP RMDCN / Internet backup

RTH

Moscow, Russian Federation CCT = 512Kbytes

IP BW = 512Kbytes

Alphanumeric

GRIB

T4

FTP RMDCN RTH

Washington, United States of America

CCT = 64Kbytes

IP BW = 64Kbytes

Alphanumeric

GRIB

T4

IP Sockets Frame Relay / ISDN backup

RTH

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RTH GTS daily traffic

Country Messages in

Files in Messages out

Files out Volume in (Mbytes)

Volume out (Mbytes)

Melbourne, Australia 9272 158 69886 21 400 283

Toulouse, France 30373 94 206204 830 170 1984

Offenbach, Germany 138558 n/a 83549 n/a 1680 270.7

Rome, Italy 2926 n/a 15962 n/a 5.5 38.5

Moscow, Russian Federation 7454 n/a 77014 184 12.5 779

Washington, United States of America 160950 2275 92208 n/a 2746 433

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NMC GTS connectivity from Exeter

NMC Connection Circuits Protocol Infrastructure Type

Brussels, Belgium CCT = 2Mbytes

IP BW = 2Mbytes

Alphanumeric

GRIB

T4

FTP RMDCN NMC

Montreal, Canada CCT = 64Kbytes

IP BW = 64Kbytes

All data IP Sockets / FTP Frame Relay NMC

Copenhagen, Denmark CCT = 2Mbytes

IP BW = 2Mbytes

Alphanumeric

T4

IP sockets RMDCN NMC

Reykjavik, Iceland CCT = 128Kbytes

IP BW = 128Kbytes

Alphanumeric

GRIB

T4

FTP RMDCN NMC

Dublin, Ireland CCT = 1Mbytes

IP BW = 1Mbytes

All data FTP RMDCN NMC

De Bilt, Netherlands CCT = 2Mbytes

IP BW = 768Kbytes

All data IP Sockets RMDCN NMC

Oslo, Norway CCT = 2Mbytes

IP BW = 2Mbytes

All data IP Sockets RMDCN NMC

Lisbon, Portugal CCT = 768Kbytes IP BW = 768Kbytes

All data FTP RMDCN NMC

Madrid, Spain CCT = 2Mbytes

IP BW = 2Mbytes

Alphanumeric

GRIB

T4

IP Sockets / FTP RMDCN NMC

ECMWF, United Kingdom CCT = 1Mbytes

IP BW = 1Mbytes

All data FTP RMDCN Bilateral

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NMC GTS MSS daily traffic

NMC Messages in

Files in Messages out

Files out Volume in (Mbytes)

Volume out (Mbytes)

Brussels, Belgium 1171 n/a 14967 n/a 16.1 51.3

Montreal, Canada 2057 135 80558 n/a 64.4 347.7

Copenhagen, Denmark 773 n/a 36532 75 7.8 130

Reykjavik, Iceland 156 n/a 9313 n/a 0.05 11.9

Dublin, Ireland 1102 1755 77013 n/a 102 84.4

De Bilt, Netherlands 4468 n/a 62898 n/a 46.5 147.9

Oslo, Norway 1316 n/a 50396 n/a 0.3 61.3

Lisbon, Portugal 907 n/a 29756 n/a 3.8 32.7

Madrid, Spain 1005 n/a 26445 n/a 3.2 35.9

ECMWF, United Kingdom 2742 1405 118730 1400 13028 2260

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RMDCN daily usage

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RMDCN weekly usage

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RMDCN annual usage

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Daily data volumes

Daily volume of message and file traffic through 16 GTS circuits: a) incoming:

messages : 2.2 Gbytes file : 0.2 Gbytes

b) outgoing: messages : 2.8 Gbytes file : 2.0 Gbytes

Daily numbers of messages and files through 16 GTS circuits:a) incoming:

messages : 362,496files : 1,700

b) outgoing: messages : 1,012,834files : 1,100

Daily Internet traffic volume:incoming : 6.1 Gbytesoutgoing : 35.9 Gbytes

Daily volume on non-GTS connections: incoming : 26.7 Gbytesoutgoing : 41.2 Gbytes

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Frost WMO Message Switching System

Frost 24 hour number of messages input & output

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Frost WMO Message Switching System

Frost 24 hour data volumes input and output

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DART FTP File Switch

DART File Daily throughput

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DART FTP File Switch

DART Daily Volume (GBytes)

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IronPort e-mail gatewaySpam (Brightmail) & Viruses Blocked (Average Per Day) - August 2007 to July 2008

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IronPort Email Filter

Breakdown of Blocked Email (Average Per Day) - August 2007 to July 2008

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RTH Switch availability

Availability figures for period September 2007 to August 2008:

• WMO message switch – 99.998%

• FTP file switch – 100%

• E-mail gateway – 100%