[138130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Feb 28 13:19:04 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
In-Reply-To: <344A1A048FD34A6FAAA3F4BACD19C138@intra.ilk.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:17:44 +0000
To: jm@ilk.net
Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Simplicity.
POTS lets me plug almost anything in from the past =
who-knows-how-many-years and it just works. When it breaks, I can go =
next door and borrow a telephone.
When I can pick up an automagically configured VoIP device from a huge =
selection down at the local electronics shop and when it just works at =
my house and my kids houses then it will be interesting.
VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people =
on this list, not my mother.
--
Leigh
On 28 Feb 2011, at 17:55, <nanog@ilk.net> wrote:
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> Power supply!
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> Old POTS is remote-power-suplied,
> so the phone will work for hours, days or even weeks
> from remote battery power.
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> In my area, one mobile network was off after 4h,
> the other after 10h,=20
> but my good-old analogue telefone did work all the
> time during an 40h power outage (it was 11 years ago).=20
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> Juergen.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nathan Eisenberg [mailto:nathan@atlasnetworks.us]=20
>> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:33 PM
>> To: NANOG list
>> Subject: RE: What vexes VoIP users?
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>> Some provider woes:
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>> FAX over VOIP is a PITA. I've not yet seen an ATA or=20
>> softswitch that handled it reliably.
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>> E911 for mobile devices sucks. Regulations, and the E911=20
>> system, do not seem to have the flexibility for handling this=20
>> in a seamless way.
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>> Call routing (on a more global scale) sucks. Keeping calls=20
>> pure IP is sexy, but the routing protocol for it is=20
>> nonexistent (and please don't say ENUM).
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