Re: [VoiceOps] Lack of Sandbox

2022-10-12 Thread Mike Hammett via VoiceOps
ednesday, October 12, 2022 1:53:39 PM Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Lack of Sandbox Maybe this suggestion should be made to NENA and the National 911 administrators. They may not know it's a problem. MARY LOU CAREY BackUP Telecom Consulting Office: 615-791-9969 Cell: 615-796- On

Re: [VoiceOps] Lack of Sandbox

2022-10-12 Thread Mike Johnston via VoiceOps
On 2022-10-12 13:34, Carlos Alvarez via VoiceOps wrote: So do you actually make a call from every room?  Say, if there are 200 of them? No. We do some sample. Of your hypothetical 200 phones, probably 100 or more are very similar (school classrooms, hotel rooms, office workers). For those,

Re: [VoiceOps] Lack of Sandbox

2022-10-12 Thread Mary Lou Carey via VoiceOps
Maybe this suggestion should be made to NENA and the National 911 administrators. They may not know it's a problem. MARY LOU CAREY BackUP Telecom Consulting Office: 615-791-9969 Cell: 615-796- On 2022-10-12 01:22 PM, Mike Johnston via VoiceOps wrote: I wish more 911 systems had a 933 numbe

Re: [VoiceOps] Lack of Sandbox

2022-10-12 Thread Carlos Alvarez via VoiceOps
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:24 AM Mike Johnston via VoiceOps < voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote: > > But we still would need to call 911 so a dispatcher can verify the rest. > "Does your console say which room I am in, or which floor I am on?" > "Room 207, Floor 2, Entrance 4" > "Perfect. I'll call yo

Re: [VoiceOps] Lack of Sandbox

2022-10-12 Thread Mike Johnston via VoiceOps
I wish more 911 systems had a 933 number. I've made actual 911 calls for testing purposes more times than I can remember. I always call the Sheriff's Office admin line first, asking if this is an alright time. But sometimes my 911 call is routed to a different county than I expected, and that

Re: [VoiceOps] Lack of Sandbox

2022-10-11 Thread Chris Boyd via VoiceOps
> On Oct 11, 2022, at 4:13 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps > wrote: > > How common is it for an upstream provider (in this case someone that manages > 911 networks) to not have a sandbox, testing number, or anything of any kind > to allow you to test that you've done everything right, short of

[VoiceOps] Lack of Sandbox

2022-10-11 Thread Mike Hammett via VoiceOps
How common is it for an upstream provider (in this case someone that manages 911 networks) to not have a sandbox, testing number, or anything of any kind to allow you to test that you've done everything right, short of just sending 911 calls in production? Most of my third-party DID providers ha