On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:18 PM, skipp025 wrote: > > The system used Multicast IP (mistake number one), UDP (maybe > > mistake number two), > > Both Multicast and UDP are not to blame... someone didn't > engineer the system properly.
That was my point. > > and when I said, "Unplug the Ethernet jack from the > > repeater" while the dispatch console was "transmitting"... > > there was ZERO alarm indication ANYWHERE to tell either > > the dispatcher, the officers in the field, or the > > technicians -- THAT THE SYSTEM WAS DOWN. > > Once again...someone didn't engineer the system properly. > > Wow Nate... now how do you really feel about VoIP/RoIP? I actually like it a lot. I just worry when I see folks using it without any thought to how the implementation of it (the engineering as you call it - although there's very little engineering to be done) may or may not degrade the safety of the people using the radio system it's "embedded" in. I think you and I are actually on the same page here, really. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [email protected]
