[67945] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kuhnke)
Thu Feb 26 06:13:08 2004
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:13:23 -0800
From: Eric Kuhnke <eric@fnordsystems.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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> E911 and FBI surveillance are just the tip of the iceberg...
>
> Joe
Does anyone have documented instances in which misconfigured or failed
residential VOIP services have resulted in deaths, or major injury? I
can see how it would be easy for the typical end-user to choose the
wrong regional 911 call centre when configuring their service. Outside
of those of us with well-equipped home offices, I don't think many
typical residential broadband users keep a UPS connected to their
cablemodem/DSL modem and NAT box. Vonage and their competitors provide
thorough warnings about this, but I think they may be going unheeded.
As a side note, are *all* cablemodem operators and DSL operators
deploying UPSes as standard policy, in manholes or on poles with their
digital loop / hybrid fibre-coax converters? Will the FCC desire that
they do so in the future?
That said, most POTS cordless 2.4GHz phones don't operate in a power
failure situation, as the base station requires 110V AC from the wall....
