[82482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Tue Jul 19 21:30:21 2005
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:29:50 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0507190838100.3636@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Perhaps -- but how does it work inside? Are we relying/requiring the user
to put up a GPS antenna?
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Daniel Senie wrote:
>
>> use the customer's billing address, attempt to determine location based on
>> IP address or some other voodoo? It'll be interesting to see if they
>
> If you look at the webpage of telecomsystems (http://www.telecomsys.com) they
> state that their platform is GPS based.
>
> I see no other way of doing this reliably than to put some kind of GPS device
> into the VoIP unit.
>
> Article regarding indoor GPS and other locator service.
>
> <http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=3053>
>
> If you can put a locator into a cellphone, I see no reason why you cannot do
> the same in a VoIP unit.
>
>
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Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben
Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net
