Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-30 Thread Blake Dunlap
Yeah there wasn't a lack of options for fail over. I suspect there was a lack of care to plan or test for them by many parties. Regardless, I personally have backed off really blaming bell for this one other than the cell towers going down. If you can't happily lose a campus for a week, it's the

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-30 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:13 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > The folks on this list likely know where the central Tennessee backup > tandem office is located. Although its semi-public knowledge, I avoided > mentioning its location until the immediate threat passed. LATAs don't > have much legal

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-30 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Peter E. Fry wrote: 911 services are certainly not treated as critical as the public is led to believe. Not that anyone here is surprised by this, but hopefully positive change can come out of this otherwise horrible event. The folks on this list likely know where the

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-30 Thread Sean Donelan
Its impressive for nearly all (not all) service was restored in central Tennessee, southern Kentucky, and northern Alabama within a few days. It took months to repair Puerto Rico telecommunications after Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Puerto Rico lost over 95% of telecommunication services,

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-29 Thread Eric Kuhnke
The massive 911 failure in WA state a few years ago was ultimately caused by a failure in CenturyLink/legacy qwest transport equipment, where the PSAP register was physically located in Colorado and inaccessible from the point of view of network equipment in WA. On Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 1:19 PM

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-29 Thread Peter E . Fry
--- Original message --- Subject: Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail From: Matt Erculiani To: Sean Donelan Cc: nanog@nanog.org list Date: Tuesday, 12/29/2020 15:19:00 This isn't the place where state governments are looking for feedback, so surely this will fall

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-29 Thread Matt Erculiani
This isn't the place where state governments are looking for feedback, so surely this will fall on deaf ears, but... Who runs 911 services on top of a single carrier solution? I wouldn't run a 10 seat mom and pop outfit without at least a cellular backup on a different carrier. 911 services are

Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-29 Thread Sean Donelan
The FCC published its annual report on state 911 fees https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-annual-report-state-911-fees-1 The report finds that in 2019, states and territories collected more than $3 billion in 911 fees, and more than $200 million of that funding was diverted for uses other