[77958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage complains about VoIP-blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Tue Feb 15 14:34:20 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:30:47 -0500
From: John Fraizer <nanog@enterzone.net>
To: Samantha Fetter <sama@snowplow.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.61.0502151400370.32642@ssh.snowplow.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Samantha Fetter wrote:
> Hi, just wanted to let you know that a friend recently got Vonage, and
> they had to go through a special process to get 911 properly associated
> with her address so that it would work right. I'm guessing that means
> they have "REAL 911 access"? I'm not familiar with that all, so pardon
> my lack of technical terms :
>
> Cheers,
> Samantha
If they had to go through a "special" process, then no. That would
indicate that Vonage still doesn't have PS/ALI, at least in your friends
market.
That "special" process is Vonage determining the "default" PSAP in your
area and routing your 911 call to the 7-digit number for that PSAP.
With PS/ALI, Vonage wouldn't be doing the routing. They would hand the
call off to the 911 Selective Router which would THEN hand the call off
to the appropriate PSAP based on a DIG to get your ALI information.
For those of you unfamiliar with how E911 works, and specifically,
PS/ALI, take a look at:
http://www.xo.com/products/smallgrowing/voice/local/psali/
Or... Simply google for "PS/ALI".
John
