I2 VoIP Questions

[Tammy Closs <>]

The I2 VoIP Disaster Recovery Working Group is researching opportunities 
to utilize Abilene and SIP technology to provide Disaster 
Recovery/Business Continuity services to the I2 community.

We need your feed back to help us determine whether we should develop a 
program to provide these services for our community.  The disaster 
scenarios currently being explored are: Local PBX/CENTREX Failure, 
Catastrophic Fiber Cut, and Central Office Fail Over from TDM service 
delivery to IP service delivery.  Additional information on the trial is 
available at http://voip.internet2.edu/dr/ .

The brief questions below are intended to assist the working group in 
developing a needs assessment for voice disaster recovery and the 
feasibility of I2 being part of your disaster recovery solution. Thank 
you in advance for your responses.

1.      Tell us about your existing voice network.
•       How many voice stations/lines do you support?
•       Are you in a Centrex or PBX environment?
•       If PBX, who is the vendor and is the PBX IP enabled?
•	Do you have a disaster recovery plan for voice communications in 
place? If yes, please go to question 2.  If no, please go to question 3.

2.      Tell us about your existing voice disaster recovery plans.
•       What vendor(s) are you working with?
•       What disaster recovery solutions have you implemented?
•       What was the cost to implement?
•       What is the ongoing operational cost?

3.      If you don’t have a voice disaster recovery plan in place -
•       Are you researching voice disaster recovery solutions?
•       What options are you considering?
•       Do you have an approved disaster recovery budget?

4.      Internet2 involvement in your plans/planning-
•	Whether you have already implemented a voice disaster recovery 
solution or you are researching alternatives, would you be interested in 
purchasing disaster recovery service offerings from Internet2?
•       If you are not interested, please briefly tell us your reasoning.



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Tamara (Tammy) Closs
Georgetown University/University Information Services
Network Communications Program Manager
3800 Reservoir Road, NW
404-H St. Mary’s Hall
Washington, DC 20057-1138
202-687-0962