Re: alternative to voip gateways

We need to keep battery backup requirements, and expand them to all last mile IP bits. The need to call 911 has not gone away.

For sure. I was merely observing that the conversion of POTS to VOIP in Australia didn't create a nation-wide disaster as the pearl-clutchers once predicted. In fact, if anything, the same folk who complained about the so-called largesse of a nationwide IP last-mile are strangely silent now that WFH is de rigueur. To your point, the original plan was 90+% passive optical back to major exchanges so the infrastructure was largely invulnerable to wide-scale power shutdowns/failures. All a residence has to do is feed a 7W NTD to stay connected. Mark.