[128239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Tue Jul 27 22:48:09 2010
To: "Joe Greco" <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, "Jim Richardson" <weaselkeeper@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:47:58 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201007280137.o6S1bvKX021279@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:21:56 -0400, Jim Richardson
<weaselkeeper@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's already a problem for getting alert pages. Any actual *pager*
> companies left? They all seem to have gone to SMS systems.
SkyTel is the only one I remember. Sadly, their coverage is about that of
Cricket or Clearwire. (at least in NC)
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:37:57 -0400, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
> Relatively speaking, at&t's Enterprise Paging (which appears to just be
> enterprise SMS with a TAP/SNPP gateway) has been a lot more reliable. I
> have no idea how reliable it'd be in a major telecom crisis, of course.
I'd expect it to work as well as the cellular network, since it's riding
on it. (read: it stops working when your cellphone does.)
SkyTel *used* to have satelite pagers. I don't think anyone runs such a
network anymore... the pagers were bulky and the network is quite
expensive to run. (just look at Iridium.)
--Ricky
