Great idea.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Lou Carey via VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org> To: "Mike Johnston" <mjohns...@wiktel.com> Cc: voiceops@voiceops.org Sent: Wednesday, 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: 615-796-1111 On 2022-10-12 01:22 PM, Mike Johnston via VoiceOps wrote: > 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 doesn't always go so well with the dispatcher. But > that sort of proves why we need to do the test calls. > > On a related note, we sometimes setup a 977 number on PBX systems. > This will read back the number that will be outpulsed if you were to > call 911. There are scenarios where what you would normally want to > use as the outbound calling number is not the same as what you want to > use when calling 911 (for E911 location, callback, etc.). Our 977 > number helps us verify we have at least that much configured > correctly. > > 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 you back in a minute from the next room." > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > VoiceOps@voiceops.org > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
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