[Asterisk-Users] E911 Testing !

[Joe Greco]

> I believe the 911 is a serious issue if one does an asterisk installation in
> an office. How do you test 911? Won't they arrest you or something for
> dialing 911 for no reason and talking to one of their agents who could have
> taken a more important call? 

That depends.  Call and ask them - if you don't know where to call, check
with your local police department on their non-emergency number.  If you're
in one of the cities where it takes them fifteen minutes to answer 911, I
suspect they won't want the additional volume.

I haven't needed to do it in a while, but around here, you used to be able
to call 911 and say something along the lines of "This is a test.  This is
not an emergency call.  Could you please verify that your system has 
identified this as NNN-NNNN at $address" and they'd very cheerfully verify
it for you.

> On the other hand what an emergency comes up (like someone got seriously
> injured) and on top of that asterisk crashed all of a sudden bringing the
> whole office PBX down. Since it would be not be possible to place a call and
> emergency matter becomes more serious, who would be held responsible? The
> person who installed the PBX for not implementing a redundant and reliable
> system?

I can sue you for being ugly, and I've never even seen you.

If you've taken reasonable care, it's probably fine.  Check with a lawyer
if you're paranoid.

... JG
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