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yes, it sets your priority for throwing others off of interswitch trunks and keeps others from throwing you off, as i understand. traditional phone network wou
by a-dub 5y ago
yes, it sets your priority for throwing others off of interswitch trunks and keeps others from throwing you off, as i understand.
traditional phone network would give a fast busy or an "all circuits are busy" message if all lines between two switches are busy. the special buttons let you assign priority for your use of those lines. F0 is just max priority.
- usrusr 5y ago...and now imagine how likely "all circuits are busy" would be in a network were half of the infrastructure was freshly nuked. A dedicated button for "give me a line, I'm the president!" doesn't seem that far fetched anymore. Who knows, if they spend enough time pondering communications availability in such dire circumstances someone might invent an internet!
- ReactiveJelly 5y agoI can even imagine a packet-switched network still running into "more telephones than trunks" problems. I can imagine it every day when I deal with WiFi problems! Ugh...