[Asterisk-biz] FW: 911 Legislation

[Alexander Lopez]

You CAN send a 911 call to any 10 digit number, The police, fire and of
course the PSAP, It will not however have the Location Information that
many people 'expect' and that is the root of the problem. People expect
it to e that way, you may have all the contacts and hold harmless
documents in place, and you may win in a court of law in a lawsuit.  

If you want to be safe, the best tried and true way to do it is have an
Asterisk server with a single port FXO card on a lifeline type line at
the site. This covers you in case of ISP failure, power failure, and
anything else that can go wrong with IP.

Funny thing about IP Telephony, is that it is MORE REIABLE than what we
base our 'mission-critical' telephony networks on.  Packet Switched data
has the ability to be rerouted due to any mishap. The traditional TDM
network can be compared to black and white television whereas the IP
networks we have today are more akin to High Definition TV!!! 

We (the Asterisk community) have been able, thanks to the project
started by Mark, to take control of a network that was built to be
closed and controlled by one.  Like the Phone Phreaks of the 70's we are
the new Blue Boxers.. We don't steal phone service, nor do we try to
defraud, but we are playing in their sandbox.

Alex




-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael
Welter
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:48 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] FW: 911 Legislation

> 
> You have not thought of ALL of the BAD things that can happen before
the
> dispatcher can ask for your address. You may be choking, on fire, shot
> in the throat or mouth, mentally incompetent to describe your
location,
> non-English speaking, stupid!, too scared to speak as they will kill
> you, mustered up your last bit of energy to crawl across the room and
> dial 911 where you hear as you die!..... "I'm sorry but I am hanging
up
> now"
> 
> Afterwards, your next of kin contact the offices of "We Will, and Due
> Sue, LLP". They then contact me and take everything I own under the
> premise that; I put you in danger, and showed reckless abandon toward
> your basic needs or safety. Two years later after my wife and kids
leave
> me for the lawyer that 'cleaned me out' I will sit under a bridge and
> mumble words like, Voip, Asterisk, PSAP, and "all I wanted to do is
save
> people money"..
> 
> Understand NOW!!!!!

But my question is still unanswered:  can we send an emergency call to 
the PSAP's ten-digit number?
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