They said VoIP and that they had an hour of use, dunno, maybe Nick can enlighten us. There was another MSU person there from IT Services that might have more of the story.

On Aug 17, 2012, at 11:39 AM, David McFarlane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

At 8/17/2012 11:26 AM Friday, Troy D Murray wrote:

   * The phones were VoIP, so those would function for 1 hour on some backup system before they'd go off-line (I didn't understand this and they didn't elaborate).

Just a guess, doesn't VOIP require internet and a working power supply?  By contrast, POTS (analog) supplies power from its own separate grid.

-- dkm