[Asterisk-biz] 911 discussion re-run

[Jon Carnes]

If you buy your PRI's retail from a local CLEC or ILEC (and get your
DID's from the same company) then you can use them for your E911.

We update the local PSAP database using a app from Omali
  http://www.om2tech.com/display.asp

It works really well. We've been doing E911 for almost three years now
without a hitch.

I wish things were that easy with Level3...

Jon Carnes
FeatureTel
 
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:01, William Lloyd wrote:
> I'll preface this by saying I know almost nothing about E911 other  
> than attending a E911 session at Astricon last week. E911 is way  
> harder to handle then it should be.  E911 has almost nothing todo  
> with technology, it's simply about the Bell companies with the help  
> of the FCC squashing most of the small ITSP out of business.
> 
> It's unbelievably messy and complicated to handle.  You two options  
> basically are to make sure every client has an analog line and route  
> his 911 calls out of that or signup with an E911 service provider for  
> your customers.
> 
> One of the unknown area's is the legal liability.  Someone calls 911  
> and the call doesn;t go through for the multitude of reasons VOIP  
> suffers from.  Just imagine the lawsuits you'll be hit with.  Maybe a  
> technically savvy user can sue for stress and worry in the event they  
> need 911 and they know the limitations of VOIP that it might not  
> work ;-)
> 
> Sounds like a good reason to incorperate your ITSP company outside  
> the US.  Another reason to use an offshore holding company.
> 
> Browse the intrado web site.  They have a lot more information.
> 
> -bill
> 
> On 27-Oct-05, at 10:27 AM, Alistair Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > Brian,
> >
> > Well, ITSP in a box can of course forward 911 calls out T1s or to  
> > an upstream VoIP provider. It can also allow users to edit the  
> > address of the phone and store this in its database. Informing  
> > users is a task for our customers' marketing departments, though we  
> > could probably add some text to the add new telephone page.
> >
> > Is this sufficient? In particular, do we just need to store the  
> > address on the system, or do we need to transmit it somehow with  
> > 911 calls, update the PSAP's database, etc?
> >
> > Alistair Cunningham,
> > Integrics Ltd,
> > +44 (0)7870 699 479
> > http://integrics.com/
> >
> >
> > Brian C. Fertig wrote:
> >
> >> Its my understanding that any ITSP must comply with the US/Canada  
> >> E911
> >> regulatory service.  I don't know the new date as it was changed.   
> >> Since
> >> not all ITSP's have control of roaming users they must have the user
> >> understand that it may not work in some areas that they are going  
> >> to be
> >> located while roaming.  There are a few services out there that offer
> >> this service that cover the country but mainly it must cover their  
> >> home
> >> address.  Also you have to give the user the ability to change their
> >> address on record in realtime with minimal update time with the
> >> databases.
> >> ..o-------------------------------------------------------o..
> >> Brian Fertig
> >> Network/Systems Engineer
> >> IT Administrator
> >> Planet Telecom, Inc.
> >> Tampa,FL Office
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Alistair
> >> Cunningham
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:00 AM
> >> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> >> Subject: [Asterisk-biz] 911 discussion re-run
> >> I'd like to re-open the 911 discussion. I know it's been discussed  
> >> before, but not conclusively as far as I can see.
> >> Does anyone know exactly what are the 911 obligations on providers  
> >> offering VoIP services to residential and small business users in the
> >> USA?
> >> We'd like to make sure our ITSP in a box product complies before  
> >> the formal launch. <plug> http://itsp.demo.integrics.com/ username  
> >> 'guest', password 'guest' for those who haven't seen it.</plug>
> >>
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