Modem as a service?

Sun Dec 6 22:28:55 UTC 2015

Nah, it wasn't you!  :)

The solution I think we're going to go with is leveraging our existing SIP infrastructure and write scripts to dial out to the OOB Modem / Fax machines at the sites that are disconnected from the network.  If they both don’t answer, we'll assume a power outage.  If one or the other does answer, it'll queue up for human interaction.

I wrote a script in Perl in about 15 minutes to do this.  God, I'm not sure if I'm stuck thinking inside or outside the box anymore!

Thanks for the replies and insights,

James

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Karl Auer
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2015 14:17
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Modem as a service?

On Sun, 2015-12-06 at 16:36 -0500, James R Cutler wrote:
> > On Dec 6, 2015, at 2:19 PM, James Laszko <jamesl at mythostech.com> wrote:
> > 
> > ... we don’t need to actually connect to the OOB modem on the other 
> > side, we just need a NO ANSWER/ANSWER kind of response. …
> 
> Forget modems - to probe via some kind of analog connection, just get 
> a single instrument wireless telephone with answering capability.  For 
> a bonus, put some kind of identifier in the answering message:  No 
> power > no answer; power > answer.

I must be thick - how does that solve the problem? The OP wants to know if a modem at a remote site will answer the phone. Maybe I misunderstood the problem.

Regards, K.

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