ANSS Network Architecture and Interconnection Subcommittee

As part of the effort to develop guidelines and standards for the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) the Technical Integration Committee (TIC) has formed a number of subcommittees: The Network Architecture and Interconnection subcommittee has been given the charge:
Develop consensus specifications for the integrated design of national, regional, and urban monitoring components and for communications among the components (sensors, data centers, and real-time recipients of data and products). This includes the technical design of communications protocols and data center design and functionality, but does not include specifications of data formats. The system should include consideration of appropriate levels of timeliness, completeness, robustness, and redundancy. The design must examine distributed data acquisition and processing, and must allow for distributed data archiving and distribution. The capability to incorporate data from sensors and networks owned and operated by other organizations should be included. Performance specifications for the data acquisition and exchange hardware/software system nationwide need to be identified.

Because of the very close tie between the activities of this Subcommittee and the Data Archiving and Distribution Subcommittee, it is anticipated that this committee may conduct some joint meetings with the Archiving and Data Distribution Subcommittee.

Members of the NAI include

with the following liaison members to the TIC:

The NAI subcommittee can be reached by email at anss-nai@seismo.berkeley.edu.

According to the timetable established by the TIC, the plan is to produce a draft document of ANSS guidelines and standards by July 2001. Given the need for review and interaction with the other subcommittees, the NAI subcommittee will need to produce its draft by March 1, 2001.