Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

[Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d () alter3d ca>]

My point is more along the line of if you're depending on a service which provides only best-effort on uptime (as Bill 
Herrin mentioned, some providers can barely manage 2 nines of 911 uptime) and to which you're connected by a single, 
fault-prone connection, and which provides no guarantee of service even if you CAN contact them,  calling it "critical" 
is kind of a joke, and you'd probably get laughed at by a risk analyst.  If you're serious about protecting health and 
home, you'd  better have some other plan in place that doesn't have a ridiculous number of single points of failure.

Pete


Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:

> I've never met a dog properly trained in ACLS and I'm pretty sure that a gun isn't even useful for BLS.
>
> Owen
>
> On Aug 4, 2012, at 7:53 PM, Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d () alter3d ca> wrote:
>
> > Considering that none of the services that can be dispatched by 911 are legally required to help you  in most North 
> > American jurisdictions (i.e. if you call 911 and the police don't respond until they finish eating their box of 
> > donuts, they're not criminally or civilly liable), having working 911 services really doesn't guarantee you 
> > anything. Most security monitoring companies have contracts that are completely worthless and guarantee nothing as 
> > well.  
> >
> > If you're depending on 911 for life safety and property protection, I'd recommend revising that plan to include a 
> > dog and/or gun.  :-)  
> >
> > - Pete
> >
> >
> >
> > Nathan Eisenberg <nathan () atlasnetworks us> wrote:
> >
> > > > Residences aren't critical infrastructure, no matter how angry the owners get.
> > >
> > > 911 access isn't a critical service?  Fire and security panels aren't critical services?
> > >
> > > If basic life safety and property protection aren't critical services, I'm not sure what is.  These are peoples' 
> > > lives and families and homes.  There is nothing - repeat, nothing - more important than that.  It is absolutely a 
> > > critical service.
> > >
> > > Nathan Eisenberg