The Noaaport Broadcast System Processor (Nbsp) is a software suite for receiving, processing and distributing the contents of the NOAAPort data stream. Nbsp comes with extensive and flexible facilities to enable product arrival notifications, database insertions, web site transfers and many other extensions.

Nbsp can run standalone, or in a master-slave mode combination. In a master-slave setup, the master instance of nbsp receives the broadcast stream in one computer, and then transmits the complete files to a slave instance of nbsp running in a different computer for further processing and/or distribution of the files.

Extensive and flexible capabilities exist for processing the files further by any number of postprocessors or filters. The filters, which can be written in any language, can be used to rewrite the files in any format, or to save them in different directories or using a particular naming convention, or for distributing the files using any external program. These facilities can be used for configuring the system for specialized tasks, such as installing a notification system when particular files are received, or to fit specific customized storage, backup and retrieval schemes.

Nbsp can distribute the files through the network in various formats, including standad http and ftp channels, or the QBT (Quick Block Transfer byte blaster) format used by emwin (pure text bulletins as well as jpg satellite images and gif radar images). It has the capability to distribute the files by nntp, via an inn news gateway, and by RSS feeds accessible from the built-in web server. Nbsp has a web interface for monitoring its activities. The built-in web server supplies information about the files received, and can report various statistics that nbsp keeps about its internal state.