{"id":652,"date":"2012-10-31T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backbone.infoportfolio.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:38:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:38:38","slug":"ibs-student-radio-network-stays-on-the-air-sandy-has-no-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/ibs-student-radio-network-stays-on-the-air-sandy-has-no-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"IBS Student Radio Network stays on the air, Sandy has no impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1341\" alt=\"Sandy Swirl\" src=\"http:\/\/backbonenetworksradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sandy-Swirl-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sandy-Swirl-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sandy-Swirl.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>While hurricane Sandy has come and gone its impact is still being felt all of our stations stayed up and on the air. \u00a0A good number of our college radio stations had school canceled and did not have access to their studios but they all remained on the air. \u00a0This is enabled by the cloud based design and architecture of Backbone Radio and provides two major benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The first is that your station is always available in the cloud. \u00a0Your station is not running the servers, we are. \u00a0And we have designed them to stay up and operational virtually all the time. When there have been outages in the past they are quite small and are often handled without the station&#8217;s intervention.<\/p>\n<p>The second is that your studio is mobile. \u00a0A few of our stations did not have access to their studios so could not broadcast live. \u00a0If they planned ahead they could have broadcast live from anywhere there was an Internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>Tres Wiggins,\u00a0Marymount\u00a0Manhattan: &#8220;We were on the air live when we could get an internet connection&#8211; but ran on backbone automation otherwise throughout, and working on post-storm coverage now&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope the clean up goes well for all of those impacted. \u00a0With our stations continually on the air they will be out there to bring you updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While hurricane Sandy has come and gone its impact is still being felt all of our stations stayed up and on the air. \u00a0A good number of our college radio stations had school canceled and did not have access to their studios but they all remained on the air. \u00a0This is enabled by the cloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,82],"tags":[10,11,47,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157425,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/157425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}