Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 09:22:02 -0400 From: Christopher Lott Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Mass Event 800/900? Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 289, Message 5 of 8 Lines: 23 The following was posted to comp.risks; I've abbreviated the post slightly: From: woody@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Woodcock) Subject: Re: Tricky application of Caller ID (Davis, RISKS-11.42) >> imagine, say, 10,000 kids in the audience [ hold phones up to TV speaker, >> which plays DTMF ]. You've got 10,000 phones dialing the same number >> simultaneously. How many of those calls do you think will get through? > In answer to your question, all 10,000 of them will get through. Sprint has a > service called "Mass Event 900/800" for doing exactly this. It can handle, > coincidentally, 10,000 calls simultaneously, and is offered to their larger > 800 and 900 customers. I've heard, but not been able to substantiate, that > AT&T has a similar service. Can anyone explain more about this? How is it done? Does it require hundreds of operators "standing by Right Now!"? Christopher Lott \/ Dept of Comp Sci, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 cml@cs.umd.edu /\ 4122 AV Williams Bldg 301 405-2721