User:Marckean/The Wireless

New article name new article content ... The Wireless is an online interactive internet radio station from Sydney Australia. It's website is 100% live, it communicates directly with the internal studio computer and allows song requests in real time. The website uses a script written in PHP which displays a form, and uses TCP port 23 to communicate through the external firewall to the internal studio computer. The Wireless website acts as a type of remote control for listeners while displaying up-to-date information.

The studio computer runs on Windows XP Professional 32-bit VMware vSphere virtual machine guest. It has 2GB of RAM and uses a virtual sound card (Virtual Cable) to enable the audio. The software used to run the radio station is called StationPlaylist Studio Professional v4.33. Also installed is StationPlaylist Creator Professional v4.33, this software us used to manage the scheduling of the music that is played.

SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Server (DNAS) is setup to run as a windows service on a separate virtual server. The ShoutCast DSP plugin which is installed on the studio computer directs what is played in real time to the SHOUTcast DNAS server as an already encoded stream (AAC+ 48K). Port 8000 is open on the external firewall and is directed to the internal SHOUTcast DNAS server so that listeners can listen from the internet.

The Wireless exists completely virtual on a gigabit network with a Cisco switch using VMware vSphere. The VMware host has an external 2.5TB NFS drive setup, which is located on an Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d NAS. The virtual studio computer uses a 1TB network drive mapped to a Dlink DNS-323 NAS where all the music is stored.

An APC UPS keeps the station going by providing clean power.