[Asterisk-biz] 911 Thread

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Jason,

Let me first commend you for the work you guys are doing. We are a
start-up VoIP Provider and unfortunately connot contribute financially to
the cause, we weulf however like to help out in any other way possible.
Please keep us posted, and again, thanks for going to bat for the little guys.


Daryl Sanders
PURECOM, LLC
tel: 303.710.0673
fax: 714.333.9339
dsanders at purecom.com



-----Original Message-----
From: "Jason P. Talley" <jason at nuvio.com>
To: <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 09:55:11 -0500
Subject: [Asterisk-biz] 911 Thread

> 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.
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> -jason
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> 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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