[24481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 911 doesn't work, try a FAX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Balling)
Sun Jul 4 13:12:57 1999
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 10:11:03 -0700
To: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990704095132.D22152@touchstone.power.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I've found, from my experience, they tend to be on analog PORTS on phone
systems (e.g., they're given a DID in the PBX, but it just comes out on an
analog port instead of a digital one).
Thus, if the PBX dies, so do most of the fax machines, at least in larger
companies...
D
At 09:51 AM 7/4/99 -0700, Dirk Harms-Merbitz wrote:
>Faxes tend to be on analog phone lines. They will still work even
>when a companies phone system is down.
>
>Dirk
>
>On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 01:54:07AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > At the last NANOG several folks chuckled when I pointed out that
> > many real emergency plans include sending a FAX as a backup when
> > the phones don't work. I thought I would pass this news story along.
> >
> > http://www.cjonline.com/stories/070399/com_phonesout.shtml
> > --
> > Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> > Affiliation given for identification not representation
> >
> >
