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Re: alternative to voip gateways
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 13:56:11 -0700
On 5/11/20 1:31 PM, Mark Delany wrote:
We need to keep battery backup requirements, and expand them to all last mile IP bits. The need to call 911 has not gone away.For sure. I was merely observing that the conversion of POTS to VOIP in Australia didn't create a nation-wide disaster as the pearl-clutchers once predicted. In fact, if anything, the same folk who complained about the so-called largesse of a nationwide IP last-mile are strangely silent now that WFH is de rigueur. To your point, the original plan was 90+% passive optical back to major exchanges so the infrastructure was largely invulnerable to wide-scale power shutdowns/failures. All a residence has to do is feed a 7W NTD to stay connected.
Is this expecting ftth? Obviously things like DSLAM's and CMTS's require power. But all of this doesn't perfectly emulate the POTS requirements since it is my responsibility to feed power to the CPE my wifi routers, etc. What we saw last fall is that going long on gas/propane power generator companies is a pretty good bet and works fine in my neck of woods (in the boonies and the gold country) , but I don't see how that scales when you turn off the power to, oh say, Oakland or San Jose (or at least parts of them), which they did and will keep doing for the foreseeable future.
Mike
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- Re: alternative to voip gateways Baldur Norddahl (May 10)
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- Re: alternative to voip gateways Clayton Zekelman (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Mike Hammett (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Baldur Norddahl (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Mike Hammett (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Colton Conor (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Mark Delany (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Michael Thomas (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Mark Delany (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Michael Thomas (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 25)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Michael Thomas (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Michael Thomas (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Shawn L via NANOG (May 02)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 02)