[109740] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Telecom Collapse?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skywing)
Thu Dec 4 22:25:33 2008
From: Skywing <Skywing@valhallalegends.com>
To: Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com>, Paul Stewart
<pstewart@nexicomgroup.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:25:15 -0600
In-Reply-To: <49380009.8050407@rxsec.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
No POTS line here. New office is all VoIP, too. For my own use, though, I=
'm sticking with cell. Don't recall the last time that there was an outage=
to the point where I couldn't make a voice call in the past few years (tho=
ugh I've seen EVDO data go down for my region and have had to fall back to =
1xRTT for an hour or once in the past couple years).
Naturally, that doesn't really disprove a negative, but the chances of ther=
e being, all at the same time:
- a sufficiently localized disaster where I'd have to call 911, and
- a sufficiently broad disaster where the cell infrastructure had completel=
y failed for all the CDMA carriers in my area, and
- nobody near by who could help or had a landline, and
- despite said broad disaster taking out *ALL* CDMA cell networks within ra=
nge, a condition that still permitted landlines to operate
...seem to be quite vanishing to me. Not impossible, but there's a whole l=
ot more likely concerns to deal with than that, nowadays. The only likely =
types of situations that might result in that, in general, would probably b=
e things like wide-area hurricane-style events. Those typically provide en=
ough advance warning to get out of harm's way. (Not that I would have to w=
orry about hurricanes in the middle of the continental US, anyway.)
- S
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Marlatt [mailto:cmarlatt@rxsec.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:07 AM
To: Paul Stewart; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Telecom Collapse?
Paul Stewart wrote:
>=20
> There's at least two cell phones in our house whenever the family is
> home and I have neighbors within quick walking distance.
>=20
That's assuming they're not doing the same thing you are, are home, or
are willing to let you borrow their phone. You're assuming a lot. I find
it surprising that many people replying haven't kept a 911 only POTS line.
Regards,
Chris
