MaxTracker said:
The SBN & IBN Feeds have been Incredible. Have used TeamSpeak for Battlefield but never to listen to scanners. Puts new fun into TS. Additionally, makes a few of us from Texas consider TS for our state.
During the CEDAR fire a few years back California OES discovered the Teamspeak feed and loved it.
They could get realtime updates in the Sacramento warning center 360 miles away, without the time lag waiting for formal reports.
Beauty of teamspeak is you can run your own server and clients within a private government network if you wanted to.
This year I noticed a few FEMA folks listening to San Diego fires as well.
Most of the Teamspeak servers sit in a data center on big pipes, and then each person that feeds only needs to stream a 16kbps client stream, which can even be done over a phone line or a satellite internet link and it's reflected to a large number of users.
Very versatile. Very low bandwidth.