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Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Woodfield)
Fri Mar 4 12:44:30 2005
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Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>, "'John Levine'" <johnl@iecc.com>,
<fergdawg@netzero.net>
From: Christopher Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:45:54 -0500
To: <swm@emanon.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
This does bring up a hardware design question...I'm wondering how
difficult of an engineering/marketing problem it would be to design
VoIP adapters with built-in backup batteries. How does the power
consumption profile of a VoIP adapter compare to, say, a cellphone?
What would this add to the cost of the device, and how long could the
battery last?
-C
On Mar 3, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Scott Morris wrote:
>
> Perhaps it varies by state, but I thought part of the E-911 service
> regulations was that if you were offering (charging) for it, you had to
> offer it as "lifeline" service which meant it had to survive power
> outage.
> *shrug*
>
> I guess the original regs weren't written with these things in mind!
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf
> Of John
> Levine
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:17 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Cc: fergdawg@netzero.net
> Subject: Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...
>
>
>> There was actually a story in USA Today a couple of days ago where a
>> family tried calling 911 on their VoIP service during a burglary only
>> to be told by a recorded message that they must "dial 911 from another
>> phone"...
>
> I was surprised to see on Packet8's web site that they now offer E911
> in a
> lot of places. You have to have a local phone number and pay an extra
> $1.50/mo. They remind you that if your power goes out, your phone
> still
> won't work, but if you can call 911, it'll be a real 911 call.
>
> This still has little to do with port blocking, but a lot to do with
> the
> whole question of what level of service people are paying for vs.
> what level they think they are paying for.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be,
> http://www.johnlevine.com,
> Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
>
>
