On Jan 19, 2007, at 13:14, Ben Scott wrote:
The only
other public sector stuff I know of with this level of fault tolerance
is medical life support equipment.
We'd like to think so. The prevailing attitude among manufacturers
in the 90's was "the FCC gives us an exemption for interference
On 1/18/07, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can your network survive the collapse of a building on top of it?
s/a building/one of the biggest buildings in the world/
What other system is engineered for failure as well as the POTS stuff?
Railroad signaling? Lunar Lander life support?
Paul Lussier wrote:
Dan Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The Comcast service has been exemplary though, as long as we
> haven't needed to call them. We finally replaced all our Verizon
> lines with Vonage, as Vonage had far better sound quality and
> reliability than Verizon's voice wires
Tom Buskey writes:
> What other system is engineered for failure as well as the POTS stuff?
> Railroad signaling? Lunar Lander life support? Fighter aircraft?
For some insights into how to implement software systems of this
quality, look here:
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff
On 1/17/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In fairness, the 911concerns (well, the real ones) are not about
> *if* calls can go through, but whether calls will *always* go through,
> and properly. I'm sure I don't need to tell you, Paul, abo
On 1/17/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To say nothing of the redundancies in conventional POTS design
(which really is, in general, some of the most robust engineering I've
ever seen in the public sector). (Emphisis POTS here -- anything more
than -48 VDC talk battery and the whole
But, with Broadvoice, I have a choice. With Vonage, I don't.
I suppose, though I don't feel I need a choice at this point.
Oh, okay..
I guess we'll just switch back to one phone company so you get no
choice at all. Hopefully they'll be willing to even offer VoIP services.
:)
_
On 1/17/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the 911 concerns are not about *if* calls can go through, but
> whether calls will *always* go through, and properly
It probably doesn't pay to be too arch about it - even the
conventional land lines can have their problems. One icy nigh
> the 911 concerns are not about *if* calls can go through, but
> whether calls will *always* go through, and properly
It probably doesn't pay to be too arch about it - even the
conventional land lines can have their problems. One icy night
in southern Chelmsford approx 10 yrs ago my wife spun
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In fairness, the 911concerns (well, the real ones) are not about
> *if* calls can go through, but whether calls will *always* go through,
> and properly. I'm sure I don't need to tell you, Paul, about the
> differences between "seems to work" and "trust
Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But, with Broadvoice, I have a choice. With Vonage, I don't.
I suppose, though I don't feel I need a choice at this point.
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A: Yes.
On 1/17/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, and I have had occasion to use 9-1-1 from my Vonage line and had
emergency response within 10 minutes of the call. So, no worries
there either!
In fairness, the 911concerns (well, the real ones) are not about
*if* calls can go through, b
I use Vonage over Broadvoice for one reason: I don't want to admin a
phone system. I want something I can easily tell my wife how to deal
with: Go pull the plug on the LinkSys box, count to 10, plug it back
in.
and Broadvoice has that. They have a plan that's about the same price
as Vonage,
On January 17, 2007, Paul Lussier sent me the following:
> I use Vonage over Broadvoice for one reason: I don't want to admin a
> phone system. I want something I can easily tell my wife how to deal
> with: Go pull the plug on the LinkSys box, count to 10, plug it back
> in.
As I understand it, y
Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just thought I'd drop in my 2 cents on this.
>
> I use Broadvoice over Vonage for one reason, that I would think would
> be important for people on this list.
>
> It uses SIP and you can bring your own device, including an Asterisk
> server.
I use Vonage
I just thought I'd drop in my 2 cents on this.
I use Broadvoice over Vonage for one reason, that I would think would
be important for people on this list.
It uses SIP and you can bring your own device, including an Asterisk
server.
I would rather go with the open standard and control over
Dan Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The Comcast service has been exemplary though, as long as we haven't
> needed to call them. We finally replaced all our Verizon lines with
> Vonage, as Vonage had far better sound quality and reliability than
> Verizon's voice wires could provide (at less
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