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A storage standard used with medium cost tape media and tape drives, used mainly for small businesses and departmental backups. DDS tapes are the same size and form factor as DAT tapes used to store music digitally on tape media, but DDS media is more robust and more expensive. There are four different DDS standards: DDS-1 through DDS-4. The four standards allow for backup of 2 GB, 4 GB, 12 GB, and 20 GB worth of uncompr
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Digital Data Storage - W Randolph Franklin wrote: me: "Can't you get that from the ANI?" 3rd 911 person: "Not from a cellphone."Of course they can't get your location from a cellphone. :)The best they can do is get an approximate location based on whichcell towers you are connecting to/have connected to in the past fewminutes.Remember that a cellphone can physically be located ANYWHERE, unlike alandline.The carriers are working to fix this, but the 911 call centers have toupgrade their equipment too ... of the call being transferred around and the original calling number being lost in the switching as a result. I feel certain the first 911 person had your number, getting transferred to a second then a third person is what lost the number.But you're still not guaranteed that the call from a cell will be fromany given location. I could be at my house in Apple Valley whencalling from my cell, or I could be clear across the country in NewYork City, for example.JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services22674 Motnocab Road * Apple Valley, CA 92307-1950Steve Sobol, Geek In Charge * 888.480.4NET (4638) * sjsobol@JustThe.net[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I do not think she asked the man wherehe was located .. she asked him *what his number was*. PAT
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