Re: Monitoring station response time

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have redundancy...not five...just one, but have never had to use it.

And actually no, we don't have snow, or hurricanes, and only abt 4 inches of
rain a year. We do have wind, dust, and power outtages and some "theoretical
rain" during monsoon season, but we make allowances for that.

We ain't fancy smancey but we are FM and we do a good job, we're NOT some
podunk outfit with a reciever in a closet.

Hey, I'm not knockin' youse guys, just wondering how you handle all the
traffic...I can't imagine how  you handle 2 million test signals coming in
everday...your phone bills must be enormous :-)




"J. Sloud" <jsloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:42:44 -0700, "Crash Gordon"
| <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
| >For about 5 years I had a second redundant cs in another state where we
| >could switch to instantly, all records were backed up nightly...never
ever
| >had to use it.
| >
| >I wonder what ADT does with 8 zillion alarms if their cs goes down?
| >
|
| ADT has 5 customer monitoring centers in the United States connected
| in a fully redundant load balancing network.  If any one is shut down
| or becomes overloaded, the traffic is rerouted to the others.
|
| Of course central stations never go down, so you're just fine with the
| local guy down the street with a receiver in his closet, right?
|
| A few examples where ADT had to use their redundant network:
|
| A blizzard in Colorado piled enough snow on the roof of the Aurora
| center that the fire marshal ordered it closed for the safety of the
| employees.  ADT's customers never knew it.
|
| The Great Northeast blackout overloaded the Rochester, NY center.
| Traffic was balanced to the other centers.
|
| Last year the Jacksonville center was evacuated because of a
| hurricane.  All traffic was rerouted.
|
| Of course your area doesn't have snow, hurricanes, or power outages,
| right?
|
|
| http://www.adt.com/resi/24hour_monitoring/adt_monitoring_centers/
|
|