[138636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: voip vs tdm fallout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Mar 11 13:42:07 2011
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:42:05 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D7A69F8.2030104@mtcc.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/11/2011 10:29, Michael Thomas wrote:
>
> Is it too soon to start to compare and contrast how voip
> held up vs. tdm? Back in the old days circa mid to late
> 90's, there was a lot of hand wringing about whether
> voip would be up to the task of dealing with a massive
> emergency. Well, we certainly have one now in Japan
> on almost every front imaginable.
>
> Is voice such a small fraction of data that the larger
> issues of cuts, electricity, etc make it moot, or has
> there been some appreciable differences between the
> two's ability to stay in usable service?
>
My question would be what communications methods are working *right now*
in the inital stages? (I heard cellular was down.) Past that, what's
seeing service restoration first?
~Seth
