Delivering Alert Messages to Members of a Work Force

Global Alert Resolution Network (GARNET) is a software system for delivering emergency alerts as well as less-urgent messages to members of the Goddard Space Flight Center work force via an intranet or the Internet, and can be adapted to similar use in other large organizations. Messages can be presented in visible and audible forms on such diverse terminals as desktop computers, portable alphanumeric pagers, telephones, fire alarms, and closed-circuit television. GARNET includes client components running on workers’ desktop computers, and server components running on redundant computers behind firewalls.