11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
1:42 p.m.
On 3/11/2011 10:29, Michael Thomas wrote:
Is it too soon to start to compare and contrast how voip held up vs. tdm? Back in the old days circa mid to late 90's, there was a lot of hand wringing about whether voip would be up to the task of dealing with a massive emergency. Well, we certainly have one now in Japan on almost every front imaginable.
Is voice such a small fraction of data that the larger issues of cuts, electricity, etc make it moot, or has there been some appreciable differences between the two's ability to stay in usable service?
My question would be what communications methods are working *right now* in the inital stages? (I heard cellular was down.) Past that, what's seeing service restoration first? ~Seth