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For non critical pages we use internet email, and it beats dial pages (when the internet & the mail servers are operating well) by about 15 seconds. (dial being about 20 seconds from hitting the "#" sign). YMMV, Deepak Jain AiNET On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote: > > I actually had a paging company, when I was discussing "how do I get > alpha pages to you", said "The internet is the primary method." They > also indicated that they were preparing to retire their TAP servers > as such method of out-of-band page delivery was "antiquated". > > I asked "If I am reporting a critical router failure via an > alphanumeric pager, how would it get to you?" to which they > responded "over the net of course". After drawing it out for them on > a whiteboard, they finally understood the problem. Only after > screaming loudly was I able to convince them that our mid-sized pager > contract (couple hundred pagers) was going to vanish into thin air > (at the time, our IXC was begging for it) if they made my TAP port > vanish into thin air. > > They finally did decide that "hey, maybe that TAP port is useful for > something after all", but I can't believe the amount of work it took > to convince them that "internet delivery" is not always the > end-all-be-all solution for all things. > > (not to mention that the TAP port averaged about 8 minutes faster on > page delivery than bouncing through whatever internal mail servers we > had and whatever systems they had) > > D > > > > > At 5:46 PM -0700 8/30/00, Sean Donelan wrote: > >Poking around the AP newswire for details on their satellite problems > >yesterday I found AP retired their previous backup system. For most > >AP customers the Internet is the primary backup. A few AP customers > >also had ISDN or FAX backup. > > > >Whether folks tell us or not, the net seems to be included in more and > >more backup plans. > > >
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