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Dive into the World Radiocommunication Seminar with a focus on the broadcasting services web portal, tools, future directions, and hands-on exercises. Explore user logins, database snapshots, eTools, and ITU-R P1812 calculations. Share feedback, improve services, and engage with the community.
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World Radiocommunication Seminar A web portal for broadcasting services Andrea Manara Broadcasting Service Division Geneva, 6-10 December 2010
Agenda • Portal overview • The tools • Future directions • Hands-on exercises
BR DB BR DB BR DB BR DB Overview Weekly copy Daily copy Daily copy Snapshot “My own office @ ITU: opening ~24/7” “My test calculations on-demand” “Special Sections, the publication day!” “Online search on Plans and MIFR”
Overview TIES users BCD authorization required • Tips: • Check yourTIESaccount@itu.int • for eBCD 2.0 e-communications • You can set Email Forwarding to your work account from here TIES users
Overview Number of daily user logins
Overview 314 Users 106 Member States
Overview Region 1 259 Users 80 Member States Region 2 20 Users 11 Member States Region 3 35 Users 15 Member States
“Online search on Plans and MIFR” eQry Search by: Read-Only copy of BR Database (Updated daily) HF Geographic Area Administration Date of Receipt Frequency MIFR (FMTV) GE06 BR Identification Number Administration Unique Identifier GE75 ST61 GE84 Status (Recorded/Published) GE06L RJ81 GE89 8
ePub “Special Sections, the publication day!” Database Snapshots at publication date • Search by BR Ific • Search by Administration • My notifications • Notifications which affects me HF MIFR (FMTV) GE06 GE75 ST61 GE84 GE06L RJ81 GE89
“On-demand test calculations” eTools Read-Only copy of BR Database (Weekly copy) GE06A Coordination exam GE06D Plan Modification GE06D Compatibility Art5 (GE06D) Conformity exam ITU-R P1812 Point to Point ITU-R P1812 Point to Area
eTools: e-noticesubmission Check your TIES account! The ITU distributed processing infrastructure will treat your test submission and inform you at completion! yourTIESname@ties.itu.int
eTools: privacy & job sharing …you can now share them with other eBCD registered users! Jobs (e-notice and results) are owned and visible ONLY by submitter…
eTools: back-end infrastructure • Six independent processes currently available in ITU servers • System can upscale easily according to computing demand Pilot-project to integrate external cloud resources
eTools: ITU-R P1812 calculations Propagation prediction model terrain profile • 30 MHz -3 GHz • 0.25 km – 3000 km • 1% < time < 50% • 1% < locations < 99% SRTM3 terrain database 3 arc-sec resolution (90 m) ~ 40 GB data Good candidate for cloud computing pilot-project: • CPU demanding • Data demanding • Data publicly available • Calculation interesting for • a wide audience (e.g. Universities)
eTools usage 30 Users 16 Member States
“My own office @ ITU: opening ~24/7” myAdmin
“My own office @ ITU: opening ~24/7” myAdmin
My Profile “My own office @ ITU: opening ~24/7” Send me an E-mail when Coordination/Objection for my notices enters the database Send me an E-mail when new Special Sections containing my notifications or notifications affecting me are available on the web myAdmin
Future directions • Improve performance (speed) • Add services in • Ex. Assist administrations the planning of VHF-FM sound broadcasting services in accordance with the GE84 Agreement (GE84PLN evolution): • Add services in
Future directions • Open access to broadcasting recorded data to the general public • Extend the functionality outside the broadcasting community?
Please send us your eFeedback! • How can we improve our services? • What do you need? • Please answer the online survey and help us improve “Thanks all for your attentions!” “Thanks to all the people which sent very useful comments over the last few months!”