North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service
At 02:48 AM 7/19/2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: While I agree that GPS is the likely answer, I wasn't expecting the ability to work inside computer rooms and basements. Guess based on the following article that it's possible. So, I guess we'll be seeing Vonage replacing the Cisco ATA-186's with something that does GPS.On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Daniel Senie wrote:use the customer's billing address, attempt to determine location based on IP address or some other voodoo? It'll be interesting to see if theyIf you look at the webpage of telecomsystems (http://www.telecomsys.com) they state that their platform is GPS based. I suppose a downside is folks using the Vonage boxes outside the US via VPN will be traceable by Vonage and could get shut down, if Vonage wanted to enforce such. Article regarding indoor GPS and other locator service.VOIP units don't walk near windows or outdoors, but given the claims made in the article, I guess it'll be possible. Perhaps some nice inexpensive NTP sync hardware will come out of this too. If the chips will work in the environments they list, perhaps they'll also work in data centers, if all the tweaks discussed don't affect clock sync accuracy too much.
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