Re: Emergency Alert System

[David Boyer <David () BVU EDU>]

That's actually what worries me about a hosted solution. Since every
student has a notebook, our campus is relying on email and desktop
popups in the event of an incident. An incident that impacts our
internet pipe would result in hosted alerts not reaching campus. We have
plenty of redundancy with our LAN and servers, but not the type of
immediate failover we'd need for a WAN interuption.

> > > Charlie Prothero <Charlie.Prothero () KEYSTONE EDU> 5:59 PM 9/9/2009

Hi, David.  We thought about that briefly and then opted for WENS, a
hosted service.  WENS works well, and there are obviously lots of other
players.  A key point in favor of that approach is that it will still
work in the event of a local incident that disrupts your on-campus
systems…
- Charlie


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Subject: [SECURITY] Emergency Alert System



Are there any decent free/open source systems that will allow us to
send out both SMS, email, and desktop popup alerts in the event of a
campus lockdown or similar emergency event?



Sorry if this has been covered already. Thanks in advance!!!