TiPS Episode 25 1124 - Turkey Day Testing for NG911

In today’s TiPS episode, Fletch explains the annual holiday disaster affectionately called The NG911 Turkey Test — the Thanksgiving surge that reveals every weakness in our public safety networks.

We discuss why Thanksgiving consistently generates the strangest call traffic of the year, what really fails during surge conditions, and how NG911 networks manage (or struggle with) large load swings, media ingestion, telematics storms, and location delays.

We cover:
- Travel-corridor saturation and selective-router overload
- Why location accuracy drops during high-mobility holidays
- Hybrid legacy/NG911 vulnerabilities during peak times
- IoT overreporting and telematics data surges
- Turkey-fryer fires (yes, plenty of them)
- And what ECCs can do to get ready before the stuffing hits the fan

If you’ve ever wondered what your PSAP looks like under extreme, predictable, high-stress holiday traffic — this is your episode.

Grab a plate, put on a headset, and let’s dig into it.

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