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I understand that most VoIP providers allow for 911 calling but that 911 service is not the same as that available to PSTN.

Has anyone had any experience using asterisk for a 911 call center? Does anyone know of any reason why it would not be suitable? As far as I know all 911 call routing takes place at the CO switch so a regular T1 line should work fine. I understand that there is support for ACD in asterisk and that is should be possible to implement screen pop (CTI). Any comments? Gene Kochanowsky Solution

FYI there is a way to do 911 its called E-911 enhanced 911 the user has to set it up with the local emergency services to it and you setup your pbx to xmit the data. Here is the fcc rule about it http://www.fcc.gov/911/enhanced/

OK, that "VOIP dialtone?" thread was getting really out of hand, so I'll condense my answers into one big ugly message: 1) 911 service. Yes, that is one of three reasons to keep your PSTN line. The other two reasons are: Inbound calls from local callers still should work on a POTS line, for now. You can't find VOIP providers in most area codes, so you'll most

Hi, Most companies we work with, have 'designated' crisis management teams. These vary from the insignificant crisis', through to life-threatening crisis'. There is always an assigned emergency services contact, whose job it is in an emergency, to maintain communication with the emergency services. One of our corporate functions is crisis management - so we have to consider

Has anyone used asterisk as a simple voip server? (I'm sure its been/ing done). If so... how did you provide 911 service? Did you setup different contexts and put sip phones in those contexts per county? Also, is it possible to put a phone into multiple contexts? For instance: context=from-internal Can I add a second context like with a , comma? So the phone can have the rules from 2

Can Asterisks properly handle outbound Enhanced 911? Blake

To anyone seeking 911 services Highly recommended to everyone to stay away from this issue I do not have a name for the company right off hand, but they got sued really bad when they tried 911 via VOIP and the 911 drop kept occurring in different areas and someone died! Implement 1 single hard wire for this service and cover your tush! Brad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML

Just curious if any of the Asterisk installers are doing anything special to protect themselves from a possible lawsuit caused by 911 failure during a Asterisk/computer crash? I realize that any traditional PBX or even a phone line can fail but, anything running on a computer is probably going to be less reliable than most PBXs. Anybody requiring customers to acknowledge and sign any kind of

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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? 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

(excuse me for my bad english) I CAN?T CHANGE WRITABLE/READ-ONLY VALUE BECAUSE I NEED THAT ANYONE WRITE EXCEPT THE USER/GROUP IN WRITELIST I used the samba-3.0.1pre1 without problems. Now, I use the samba-3.0.4 (bug ms04-011 fixed) Is this a samba 3.0.4 bug ?! : [rental] comment = Rental path = /home/rental valid users = @administradores @rental mesaayuda ctoledo public = no

I have a client that would like to use asterisk to link their multiples locations together. However, if a person in the remote office dials 911, How can the 911 operator determine WHERE the emergency is?? Since all calss would be going out of the PRI in the main location, the police/fire trucks will show up at our COLO!! I know that there are some that are doing this multi site setup, how did

Hello, my config : aah 2.6 (asterisk 1.2.4) , centos 4.2, 1 TDM11B (1 Fxo / 1 fxs ), 1 phone, 1 softphone I'm in France When someone from PSTN calls and hangs up before the call is answered, internal extension keeps ringing until timeout occurs. PSTN line keeps busy. Hangup detection doesn't work. I've played with different paremeters (callprogress, busydetect, busycount,

Hi there, I am running a PBX under asterisk 1.6. I have few FXO analogue lines connecting to PSTN. These lines are in a hunt group. I trying to make my extensions to dial 91, but this is a bit scary, I mean if somebody make an emergency call after hours and without completing call is not able to tell his/her location. How can I make 911 call center to know the exact location of my extension. I

This is a bit off topic, but I'm not sure where else to start. I've got a friend in Australia who works for a big ISP there. I guess they want to provide VOIP service to their customers. Can anyone give us an idea how someone can, I guess, purchase phone lines to sell as VOIP lines? I'm a bit lost here, but basically what is needed to become a VOIP provider? Would you buy a bunch

This was given to me by a Telco guy in Canada. Talk about a great view of things to come. ESWG Consensus 12-month Report on Nomadic VoIP Technical and Operating Impediments to 9-1-1/E9-1-1 Service Delivery in Canada. PREPARE FOR 911 Executive Summary Emergency Services Working Group (ESWG) recommends on a consensus basis the Commission order the deployment of NENA Interim-2 (i2) compliant

Hi, I am really enjoying the experience of writing my first web app in Rails. I particularly like the instant feedback the framework offers when developing in small increments and I am learning new things all the time. However since I develop alone and my inexperience with rails I?m asking for help to answer some design questions that I have regarding my first app. After reading the Agile

ESWG Consensus 12-month Report on Nomadic VoIP Technical and Operating Impediments to 9-1-1/E9-1-1 Service Delivery in Canada Executive Summary Emergency Services Working Group (ESWG) recommends on a consensus basis the Commission order the deployment of NENA Interim-2 (i2) compliant emergency services components, systems and upgrades to result in the operation within 18 months of enhanced

I have a very strange problem I'm hoping someone has encountered already. I've scoured the internet for an answer to this one. My phone company provides no disconnect supervision. Hence I'm forced to use the busydetect feature. I have a TDM400 with two FXO ports. If I call from an internal extension to a landline and then hangup the landline Asterisk detects the busy signal