[79290] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Apr 1 16:21:24 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:19:59 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050331192527.60482.qmail@web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com>; from David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com> on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:25:27AM -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:25:27AM -0800, David Barak wrote:
> > most american PBX's don't have 911 as a dialplan.
> > you have to dial 9-911.
>
> We work on different PBXes. The ones on which I work
> are specifically configured to respond to 911 OR 9-911
> to avoid a problem. Would YOU want to have been the
> person who didn't enable one of those options, and
> thus delayed response time?
Would *you* want to be the person who got a dressing down from the
local fire chief because several of your phones had skip-py 1 keys,
people trying to dial 9-1-800-555-1212 kept dialling 911 instead?
There are *many* possible failure modes involving 911:
http://www.911dispatch.com/911_file/911_misdials.html
And for background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1
It's not as simple as it looks, off topic though it probably is.
Cheers,
-- jr 'learning opportunity' a
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