Subject: Administrative NOAA -17 end of life testing (TIP Swap) Issued This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020602070207000905070201 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *NOAA-17 end of life testing (TIP Swap) *Update*: NONE *Date/Time(UTC) Message Issued:* February 11, 2013, 2245 UTC *Product(s) Involved/Affected:* No anticipated impact to Users *Date/Time(UTC) of Initial Implementation:*February 12, 2013, Time 13:09 UTC *Date/Time(UTC) of Expected End: *February 14, 2013, Time 17:17 UTC *Length of Outage: *about 52 hours (2 1/3 days) *Details/Specifics of Change:**NOAA-17 TIP Swap*: During a contact on Feb 12, 2013 at ~ 13:09:30UTC, SOCC engineers plan to swap sides of the telemetry information processor (TIP) and begin using side 1. Be advised that processes in your system(s) may be affected please note that the TIP data stream will contain '000B'x (or '11'decimal). This is a change from '000C'x (or '12'decimal). The TIP will be swapped back to side 2 on Feb 14, 2013 at ~17:17:40 UTC. The swap is a test. Similar action was taken on NOAA-17 in 2006. *Products that use NOAA-17 that will be affected:* None *Contact Information for Further Information:* ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 Carl Gliniak at carl.gliniak@noaa.gov at 301-817-4207 Paul Haggerty Paul.Haggerty@noaa.gov at 301-817-3876 * Web Site(s) for applicable information:*N/A --------------020602070207000905070201 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Topic: NOAA-17 end of life testing (TIP Swap)

Update:  NONE

Date/Time(UTC) Message Issued:  February 11, 2013, 2245  UTC

Product(s) Involved/Affected:  No anticipated impact to Users

Date/Time(UTC) of Initial Implementation: February 12, 2013, Time 13:09 UTC

Date/Time(UTC) of Expected End: February 14, 2013, Time 17:17 UTC

Length of Outage: about 52 hours (2 1/3 days)

Details/Specifics of Change: NOAA-17 TIP Swap: During a contact on Feb 12, 2013 at ~ 13:09:30UTC, SOCC engineers plan to swap sides of the telemetry information processor (TIP) and begin using side 1.  Be advised that processes in your system(s) may be affected please note that the TIP data stream will contain '000B'x (or '11'decimal).  This is a change from '000C'x (or '12'decimal).  The TIP will be swapped back to side 2 on Feb 14, 2013 at ~17:17:40 UTC.

The swap is a test.  Similar action was taken on NOAA-17 in 2006. 

Products that use NOAA-17 that will be affected:
None

Contact Information for Further Information:
ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880
Carl Gliniak at carl.gliniak@noaa.gov at 301-817-4207
Paul Haggerty Paul.Haggerty@noaa.gov at 301-817-3876


Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A

 

 

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