[cisco-voip] [Semi-OT] E911 and legal issues

[Craig M Staffin]

Check with the local PSAP.  As far as I know Chicago is the only city that 
has and actually enforces an E911 law.

Also from my understanding you can make 911 ring to an internal team first 
as long as it is posted so that the employees understand that that is in 
fact what is happening.

Craig





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Sorry for the off-topic, but google-ing around didn't reveal much to me, 
so 
here it goes: has any one of the members of this list implemented an E911 
solution? I have a client who needs this installed, but we do not know if 
the 
configuration has to be related to legal aspects in the state/county/town 
the 
company resides in. Here is what I am referring to: 

- under the old, analog system, the methodology of calling 911 had the 
number 
actually routed to an emergency crew, properly trained in CPR and other 
first 
emergency responder methods, who would then decide if the call had to 
really 
go to 911. One of the big advantages of this method was also the fact that 

the internal crew had full knowledge of the location of each person, to 
the 
cube and office level

- someone I was discussing this issue with said to me that the above was 
only 
possible under very old laws, allowing such, and that the new laws require 

911 calls to be sent directly to the 911 services, and that the location 
will 
have to be passed on based on the information from a database my customer 
will have to deliver (and maintain?!?) in coordination with the 911 folks, 

such that each phone will be identified in a specifc area of the building, 

based on participation in a switch-port connection. To me this sounds 
extreme, because one of the advnatages VoIP has been bringin to the table 
was ... well ... mobility of phones (no matter where I plug them, they 
register) - so how the heck are we going to be able to continuously update 

the switch-port info?!?

Any pointers will be highly appreciated - to narrow the scope I would be 
mostly interested in USA - Illinois, but of course other states' 
deployment 
experience will also be valuable.

If you feel the above is totally off-topic, please accept my apologies, 
and - 
if anythiung useful to be added - please email me directly.

Thank you,
Stefan
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