tony sayer wrote:

dennis@home scribeth thus

"Graham." wrote:

Why else would this piece of 1970s communications equipment be in the
JPL mission control this morning?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/g3zvt/7...ream/lightbox/

On a serious note, its because the VoIP stuff is cr@p and unreliable so they
have at least one phone that will work in an emergency.

More Den bull ..

Indeed, I'm aware of multiple emergency service control rooms that are
planning to take all their 999 calls as SIP on one of many VLANs over
gigabit Ethernet.