> I believe the 911 is a serious issue if one does an asterisk installation in > an office. How do you test 911? Won't they arrest you or something for > dialing 911 for no reason and talking to one of their agents who could have > taken a more important call?
That depends. Call and ask them - if you don't know where to call, check with your local police department on their non-emergency number. If you're in one of the cities where it takes them fifteen minutes to answer 911, I suspect they won't want the additional volume. I haven't needed to do it in a while, but around here, you used to be able to call 911 and say something along the lines of "This is a test. This is not an emergency call. Could you please verify that your system has identified this as NNN-NNNN at $address" and they'd very cheerfully verify it for you. > On the other hand what an emergency comes up (like someone got seriously > injured) and on top of that asterisk crashed all of a sudden bringing the > whole office PBX down. Since it would be not be possible to place a call and > emergency matter becomes more serious, who would be held responsible? The > person who installed the PBX for not implementing a redundant and reliable > system? I can sue you for being ugly, and I've never even seen you. If you've taken reasonable care, it's probably fine. Check with a lawyer if you're paranoid. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
