The telephone companies (I'm looking at YOU Verizon!) are bringing this situation onto the community. I can see the FCC NPRM now: "What percentage of E911 terminations is being serviced over VoIP with carrier-based network switching, or third-party network switching, interfaced to the PSTN? "How many emergency service areas terminate E911 VoIP into an on-premises device like a Cisco voice router with outward-facing T1/E1 cards, or even outward-facing DS0 ports?" This is just the flip side of the problem with VoIP on the consumer side, not being able to easily associated a location with a 911 call without significant help from the calling device. Think cell phones on the one hand, and the ubiquitous Cisco VoIP desk set on the other. (Personal note: I have two copper-based DS0 lines here at my home office. And I'll keep them until Nevada Bell pries them out of my cold, dead hands. Now, those lines do terminate at a neighborhood SONET ring fiber terminal with a battery, but it's not my worry. Fax works fine -- which you can't say for VoIP connections.) On 12/28/18 2:21 PM, Patrick Boyle via NANOG wrote:
Ouch. Feel bad for the guys on the ground at C-link. Not a fun 24 hours.
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, December 28, 2018 3:17 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. <amitchell@isipp.com> wrote:
And the other latest news is that the FCC is investigating the CenturyLink outage:
https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/fcc-investigating-centurylink-outage-says-...
On Dec 28, 2018, at 3:11 PM, Patrick Boyle via NANOG nanog@nanog.org wrote: Yes, there were 911 services affected. The latest word from C-link as of 1:46PM mountain is that all 911 services are restored where they are the provider. I'm not 100% sure if that's system-wide, or just my area in the northwest, however. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, December 28, 2018 1:03 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer@nic.fr wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 07:07:42AM +0000, Erik Sundberg ESundberg@nitelusa.com wrote a message of 131 lines which said:
CenturyLink will be conducting an extensive post-incident investigation and root cause analysis to provide follow-up information to our customers
Is this problem also responsible for the 911 outage? If so, the post-mortem analysis is not useful only for CenturyLink customers but for everyone on the west coast.