Check out this alert on the University of Buffalo's website:
I just hope there isn't a campus shooting or something like that. How would campus personnel be able to broadcast emergency messages to your VoIP phone in your dorm room? There's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Or what if some other major emergency happens on campus, like you know, you've got the major munchies or you want to order a pizza? Now that's really a lawsuit waiting to happen! Don't believe lawsuits can happen over not being able to order pizza using VoIP? Just go take a gander at Vonage IPO Lawsuit and my Lawsuit over my Cold Pizza.
UBIT Alert
Campus Wide Services Impacted
VoIP System Maintenance
Effective: 8/6/2008 Expires: 8/6/2008 Posted: 2008-08-04
On Wednesday, 8/6, between 6:00 - 7:00 AM system maintenance will be performed on the VoIP server infrastructure. Technical staff will be updating web security certificates.
During the system maintenance window, users will experience a momentary interruption of approximately 5 minutes during which user configurable features will not be available for modification.
Should a situation exist where this might seriously restrict your ability to conduct business, please contact us so that we can reschedule this work.
For more information contact oss-unix (oss-unix@buffalo.edu), 645-5367
I just hope there isn't a campus shooting or something like that. How would campus personnel be able to broadcast emergency messages to your VoIP phone in your dorm room? There's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Or what if some other major emergency happens on campus, like you know, you've got the major munchies or you want to order a pizza? Now that's really a lawsuit waiting to happen! Don't believe lawsuits can happen over not being able to order pizza using VoIP? Just go take a gander at Vonage IPO Lawsuit and my Lawsuit over my Cold Pizza.
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"...approximately 5 minutes during which user configurable features will not be available for modification."
I'm not sure what you're getting so excited about. It doesn't say an interruption of phone service, just an interruption of user-configurable features. I would assume this means stuff like call forwarding.
I was only jesting. Look at one of the categories I chose (Personal & Humor). Also, while they claim only "user-configurable" features will be down, I know from personal experience that these maintenances don't often go as planned and it could be a phone outage as well.
And considering most students aren't awake for another 8 hours... who would notice?