[Asterisk-biz] 911 Thread

[Jason P. Talley]

I just returned from DC where I had meetings with commissioners and
their staff of the FCC regarding the upcoming May 19, 2005 meeting.  As
most of you know there will most likely be an order issued regarding 911
and VoIP providers.  My concern after our meetings is that the proposed
order will be very harmful to the VoIP industry, especially those
providers without the ability or resources to provide 911 solutions.  It
appears that if you provide VoIP services you are going to have to allow
for any emergency call to be routed to the proper PSAP via the selective
routers and allow for ALI via the database.  To my knowledge there is no
provision that requires the ILEC to allow you access to the selective
router and there is no IP method of interconnection.  This means that if
you offer VoIP in a single market (ie you only have DIDs from one or
limited rate centers) and your product is mobile (you can move it to
different broadband connections) you will have to interconnect with all
6600+ PSAPS natively in the US.  This totally ignores the reality of
having to pass 10 digit numbers instead of 7 digit numbers to the
selective router.  This would require some type of innovation like
pseudo-ani that the wireless industry uses right now  and we all know
how long that took to implement.  As you can see, this is a tremendous
burden. The order essentially mandates the NENA I-2 solution in the next
3-4 months without the tools to be able to do it.

 

Here at Nuvio we have invested some serious R&D into being able to offer
a limited implementation of e911 in some of the rate centers that we
serve, but it is far from being a perfect solution.  It certainly will
not be sufficient for what we believe the FCC may be considering.
Honestly, nobody could fulfill that right now.

 

While public safety is of paramount concern, and here at Nuvio we take
it very seriously, it is not an issue that can be resolved within the
next 3-4 months by simple mandate.  I expect that unless there are some
serious revisions that go into place, this is going to be tough if not
impossible for most VoIP providers to accomplish.  

 

We are mounting a campaign and I will be asking for help from those of
you interested in participating.  I believe we have a responsibility for
public safety, but any orders need to be technically and practically
possible.

 

 

-jason

 

 

Jason P. Talley

Chief Executive Officer

NUVIO CORPORATION

Phone: 816-444-4422 ext. 6711

Fax: 913-498-1810

http://www.nuvio.com

jason at nuvio.com

 

 

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