The telephone companies (I'm looking at YOU Verizon!) are bringing this situation onto the community. I can see the FCC NPRM now:
"What percentage of E911 terminations is being serviced over VoIP with carrier-based network switching, or third-party network switching, interfaced to the PSTN? "How many emergency service areas terminate E911 VoIP into an on-premises device like a Cisco voice router with outward-facing T1/E1 cards, or even outward-facing DS0 ports?" This is just the flip side of the problem with VoIP on the consumer side, not being able to easily associated a location with a 911 call without significant help from the calling device. Think cell phones on the one hand, and the ubiquitous Cisco VoIP desk set on the other. (Personal note: I have two copper-based DS0 lines here at my home office. And I'll keep them until Nevada Bell pries them out of my cold, dead hands. Now, those lines do terminate at a neighborhood SONET ring fiber terminal with a battery, but it's not my worry. Fax works fine -- which you can't say for VoIP connections.) On 12/28/18 2:21 PM, Patrick Boyle via NANOG wrote: > Ouch. Feel bad for the guys on the ground at C-link. Not a fun 24 hours. > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Friday, December 28, 2018 3:17 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. > <amitch...@isipp.com> wrote: > >> And the other latest news is that the FCC is investigating the CenturyLink >> outage: >> >> https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/fcc-investigating-centurylink-outage-says-unacceptable/ >> >>> On Dec 28, 2018, at 3:11 PM, Patrick Boyle via NANOG nanog@nanog.org wrote: >>> Yes, there were 911 services affected. The latest word from C-link as of >>> 1:46PM mountain is that all 911 services are restored where they are the >>> provider. I'm not 100% sure if that's system-wide, or just my area in the >>> northwest, however. >>> Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. >>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >>> On Friday, December 28, 2018 1:03 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 07:07:42AM +0000, >>>> Erik Sundberg esundb...@nitelusa.com wrote >>>> a message of 131 lines which said: >>>> >>>>> CenturyLink will be conducting an extensive post-incident >>>>> investigation and root cause analysis to provide follow-up >>>>> information to our customers >>>> >>>> Is this problem also responsible for the 911 outage? If so, the >>>> post-mortem analysis is not useful only for CenturyLink customers but >>>> for everyone on the west coast. > >