July 2008 Newsflash:
Satstream has announced an option for its standard SCPC EAS products which implements the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for distribution of EAS and other alert information.
All CAP messages appear at the auxiliary data port. The EAS information can be extracted from the CAP file and sent onto an EAS decoder as normally handled.
Satstream SCPC uses a small amount of dedicated satellite bandwidth to keep costs low and reliability high by avoiding shared satellite frequencies.