[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Matt
How exactly does Asterisk provide E911 service?? ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Rich Adamson
How exactly does Asterisk provide E911 service?? It doesn't do anything with 911. You tell * what to do when someone dials 911 via your dialplan. To avoid legal issues down the road, I'd suggest handling it via a local pstn line (one way or another), and install a Red Phone with a normal pstn

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Matt wrote: How exactly does Asterisk provide E911 service?? Could you ask a slightly more open-ended and ambiguous question next time? This one might actually have some real answers... Asterisk does not provide _any_ service, the user configuring Asterisk makes that happen. Asterisk can be

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Rich Adamson wrote: To avoid legal issues down the road, I'd suggest handling it via a local pstn line (one way or another), and install a Red Phone with a normal pstn line for emergency use. (The pstn line for the Red Phone 'could' be used for incoming faxes as well, and when combined with

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Rich Adamson
To avoid legal issues down the road, I'd suggest handling it via a local pstn line (one way or another), and install a Red Phone with a normal pstn line for emergency use. (The pstn line for the Red Phone 'could' be used for incoming faxes as well, and when combined with something like

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Rich Adamson wrote: Agreed 100%. Think about how one might config a spa3k to accomplish everything noted, plus some. :) Well, incoming call handling on SPA-3000 kind of sucks at the moment... but I don't see how it could be configured to ring a bunch of phones anyway. At best it can deliver the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Rich Adamson
Agreed 100%. Think about how one might config a spa3k to accomplish everything noted, plus some. :) Well, incoming call handling on SPA-3000 kind of sucks at the moment... but I don't see how it could be configured to ring a bunch of phones anyway. At best it can deliver the call to a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin P. Fleming) writes: Well, incoming call handling on SPA-3000 kind of sucks at the moment... but I don't see how it could be configured to ring a bunch of phones anyway. At best it can deliver the call to a single gateway/proxy, and even it really wants to answer the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Rich Adamson
Well, incoming call handling on SPA-3000 kind of sucks at the moment... but I don't see how it could be configured to ring a bunch of phones anyway. At best it can deliver the call to a single gateway/proxy, and even it really wants to answer the line first and present a second dial

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Have the spa3k use an S0 dialplan: PSTN Line: ... Dial Plan 8:(S0 : ) ... PSTN Caller Default DP: 8 In the little bit of testing I did with an SPA-3000, I could not get it to automatically send the call on to the Asterisk server

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk E911?

2005-03-16 Thread steve szmidt
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 16:34, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Have the spa3k use an S0 dialplan: Come On Guys! Get your own thread! I've never had a problem with calling 911 and reporting the address that goes with that Caller-ID for their database. -- Steve