Re: OT? : Netherlands to switch 100% to VOIP before 2010

Robert Latest wrote:

Joerg wrote:


In the army one guy on our truck was a telecom electrician. He told me some amazing stories of what POTS system can tolerate without quitting. The whole bank of batteries under water while still running, cabinet full of drift snow and still working etc. Plus you can always hardwire stuff in an emergency. Won't do you any good with VoIP.


Of course it won't. But what you're describing is dinosaur technology even compared to telephone equipment that was modern 20 years ago.


It was dinosaur technology. But guess what, it worked. If it ever quit a good spritz from the contact spray can would make it work again ;-)


But I'm sure that these "classic digital", probably Larkin-style programmed systems are worlds ahead of VoIP in terms of reliablility.


Classic digital without power-hungry processors is the ticket. On an oil rig we had a computer (PDP-11 style, actually) that was "customized" by the oil exploration company. The circuit boards were fully coated so when someone was hosing off our doghouse and one of us accidentally walked out the door nothing went wrong, even though the rack was dripping salt water. That "spritz" was so powerful that it blew the guy back inside. Now imagine what would happen if there was just one of those newfangled GHz-processors with a fan on top.

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