Kinda hard to know what goes on past your regional toll access tandem. The FCCs latest ACAM order presumes it will all be VOIP and ILECS will no longer even own switches.
From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2016 7:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 911 Most of your traffic has been travelling over VoIP for decades if your call travels further than your LATA. Chuck would obviously know more about that. On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:47 AM Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: We work on a number of 911 "centers" out here in rural Texas. What most people don't know is in the hinter lands out here the same person that takes care of the jail inmates, monitors, feeds, and watches over them, that person is also the person answering calls and dispatching first responders. So if they are tending to something in the jail they are not by the phone. Not that it is a huge issue but the perception is that someone is standing over the phone waiting for it to ring. Around here, that is not the case. If two calls come in at the same time one of you rings or gets a message. Those systems are not redundant either. On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:17 AM Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: So people are all up in arms about (well, maybe more relevant 10 years ago) about VoIP and 911 reliability. That's assuming the 911 service is even operational. http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2016/11/02/911-board-calls-for-redundancy-after-outage/acd4nl/ ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP
