TELECOM Digest Wed, 11 May 94 12:15:00 CDT Volume 14 : Issue 209 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Questionnaire for Telecommunications Directory (Nigel Allen) First CAP All Fiber-Optic Transatlantic Videoconfernce (FCC via Bob Keller) Electronic FCC Fees Payment Workshop - May 18 (FCC via Bob Keller) Hackers On Planet Earth -Update- (Kevin Crow) European Real-Time Seminar 1994 (Alf Oennestam) Bellcore to Assign NPA 500 Codes (Communications Daily via Gregory Monti) Conference: Using ISDN to Work through the Next Earthquake (Bob Larribeau) Wanted: X25 Package For SCO UNIX (Michael A. Leo) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and GEnie. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 May 94 11:25 WET Subject: Questionnaire for Telecommunications Directory From: ndallen@io.org (Nigel Allen) Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151 Voice: 416-363-8676 [Note from NDA: Here is the text of a questionnaire that I thought would be of interest to readers of this newsgroupu.] QUESTIONNAIRE FOR FREE LISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORY An International Descriptive Guide to Telecommunications Companies, Services, systems, and Related Organizations in the Field If you would like your telecommunications service considered for listing free of charge in the Telecommunications Directory published by Gale Research Inc. and your system or service is described by one or more of the categories listed below, please complete this questionnaire and return it by May 31 to: Telecommunications Directory Gale Research Inc. 835 Penobscot Building Detroit, MI 48226-4094 U.S.A. Telephone (313) 961-2242 ext. 1551 or 800-347-GALE, ext. 1551 in Canada and the U.S. Fax (313) 961-6815 If you are already listed, please ignore this questionnaire. Please enclose any literature or other information that might help the editors put together a more complete listing for your organization or service. If your organization has multiple services that should be described in separate listings, please complete a separate questionnaire for each. 1. Company/organization name and address: 2. Unit (particular system/service/unit under discussion): Address: 3. Telephone: Toll-free phone (if any): Fax: Electronic mail address (give system name and your code or address): Telex: Year organization founded: Year system/service established: 4. Head of unit listed in item 2 (name, position, unit): 5. Public/business contact for additional information (name, position, unit): 6. Related organizations (other sponsoring, affiliated, or supporting organizations - please specify relationship [i.e., wholly owned subsidiary, etc.] and indicate city/state/country location): 7. Staff of unit listed in item 2 (indicate number in each category): Total: Management: Technical: Sales and Marketing: Clerical: Other: 8. Service Types (Please check those boxes that describe your type of organizaton, system, or service. For example, a telephone resale carrier would designate "Long Distance Telephone Service". An organization that provides consulting and educational services would designate "Consultant" and "Conference/Seminar/Training Provider". Item 9, General Description, will ask you to briefly amplify the indicators checked here.) Systems or Services [ ] Data Communications Service [ ] Long Distance Telephonme Service [ ] Intrastate [ ] Interstate [ ] International [ ] Cellular Radio Service [ ] Local Area Network Supplier [ ] Teleconferencing [ ] Audio Only Service [ ] Audio/Video Service [ ] Equipment Supplier [ ] Audiotex Service [ ] Videotex/Teletext Service [ ] Videotex/Teletext Equipment or Software [ ] Electronic Mail [ ] Service [ ] Equipment/Software [ ] Voice Store & Forward [ ] Service [ ] Equipment/Software [ ] Satellite/Microwave Networking Service (i.e. uplinks, downlinks, transponder leasing, etc.) [ ] Shared Tenant Service [ ] Facsimile Service (includes fax-0n-demand, broadcast fax, or enhanced fax) [ ] Telegram Service [ ] Teletex Service [ ] Telex Service [ ] Transactional Service (electronic fund transfer, home banking, reservations systems, interactive shopping, etc.) [ ] Two-way Cable Television Other Organizations [ ] Consulting [ ] Legal Service [ ] Financial Service/Insurance Service [ ] Conference/Seminar/Training Provider [ ] Association [ ] Publisher/Information Service [ ] Government/Regulatory/Standards Body [ ] Research [ ] Other (please specify): 9. General description of unit listed in item 2: 10. Specific user applications of system/service (what is system/ service used for?): 11. Geographic areas served (cities, countries, or general geographic regions served): 12. Rate structure (please indicate general rates, fees, or other charges, including start-up costs if applicable): 13. Clientele/availability (primary types of clients; any restrictions or limitations) 14. Means of access (how is the system/service accessed? what equipment is required?) 15. Equipment supplied as part of system/service 16. Publications (periodicals, books, documentation/user aids; please indicate title, price, frequency, and where available from); 17. Other communications services (if possible, please send additional literature on these services for possible inclusion in the Directory): 18. Planned new services (indicate starting date; please enclose additional information if available): 19. Key Features Summary (please recap the main advantages and feastures of your system or service): 20. Questionnaire completed by: Name: Title: Date: Telephone: Fax: 21. [ ] Descriptive material enclosed [ ] Descriptive material sent under separate cover ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 11:38:16 EDT From: Bob Keller Subject: First CAP All Fiber-Optic Transatlantic Videoconfernce May 11, 1994 CHAIRMAN HUNDT WILL TAKE PART IN FIRST ALL FIBER-OPTIC TRANSATLANTIC VIDEOCONFERENCE USING COMPETITIVE ACCESS CONNECTIONS WITH SIR BRYAN CARSBERG, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF FAIR TRADING, UNITED KINGDOM Chairman Hundt will make the first all fiber-optic transatlantic call using competitive access connections by having a videoconference between the FCC and UK at 8:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 25, in Room 856 at the FCC headquarters building, 1919 M St., NW. MFS Communications Co. is providing the technical demonstration using solely competitive networks between the Chairman and Sir Bryan Carsberg, the United Kingdom's Director General of Fair Trading. Both officials plan to discuss informally the value of competition and the benefits of bringing competition to users during the videoconference. The press is invited to attend. News Media contact: Stephen Svab at (202) 632-5050. -FCC- Bob Keller Robert J. Keller, P.C. Tel +1 301.229.5208 A.R.S. KY3R Federal Telecommunications Law Fax +1 301.229.6875 rjk@telcomlaw.com (Finger me for FCC Daily Digest) CompuServe 76100,3333 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 11:41:17 EDT From: Bob Keller Subject: Electronic FCC Fees Payment Workshop - May 18 May 11, 1994 FEES ELECTRONIC PAYMENT WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1994 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM The Public Service Division will sponsor a Fees Electronic Payment Workshop on Wednesday, May 18, 1994 from 9:00 AM until 12:00 PM at the FCC, Room 856, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, DC. This workshop is designed for those firms interested in paying processing and/or regulatory fees electronically. Currently, it is proposed that those who pay their fees electronically will file the accompanying paperwork with the Office of the Secretary, Room 222, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20554 or Route 116, Gettysburg, PA 17326, depending on the particular filing. THIS NEW PROPOSED RULE PERTAINS TO ELECTRONIC PAYERS ONLY. Two types of electronic payment that will be discussed at the workshop are: 1)'CTX' type payments where money is transferred from the payer's bank directly to Mellon Bank, our lockbox bank via mainframe computer. 'CTX' type payments have been widely used by larger corporations to pay their accounts. Use of the 'CTX' payment system is designed for those companies already using electronic computer transfer. 2) The Customer Initiated Payments (CIP) Program where the payers authorize our lockbox bank to debit their bank account. This is a personal computer or touch-tone telephone based system designed for companies not currently involved in electronic data transfer. The majority of the workshop will be devoted to the CIP Program because it fits the needs of most of FCC's clients. The CIP Program is a convenient, safe, and reliable way for your organization to pay its processing and regulatory fees. FCC CIP has been developed especially for FCC fee payments in conjunction with Mellon Bank. Please join us for a discussion and demonstration of this new and exciting innovation at the FCC. Staff from Mellon Bank and the FCC will be there to answer your questions. Please contact Kara Casey or Michelle Mitchell at 202/632-0244 if you are interested in attending. -FCC- Bob Keller Robert J. Keller, P.C. Tel +1 301.229.5208 A.R.S. KY3R Federal Telecommunications Law Fax +1 301.229.6875 rjk@telcomlaw.com (Finger me for FCC Daily Digest) CompuServe 76100,3333 ------------------------------ From: kc@netsys.com (Kevin Crow) Subject: Hackers On Planet Earth -Update- Organization: Netsys Inc. Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 06:54:05 GMT Hackers On Planet Earth The First U.S. Hacker Congress Come together in the summer of 1994 to celebrate the hacker world and the tenth anniversary of 2600 Magazine. We will have speakers and demonstrations from around the globe, a collection of films and rare videos on hacking, and our very own network between all of us and the outside world! This is an opportunity to feel the real magic of hacking instead of hearing about how we're about to destroy the world in some cheap tabloid or on the news during sweeps week. Government propaganda and corporate doublespeak have finally met their match! If you want to help put together this historic event, contact us by telephone at (516) 751-2600, through the mail at H.O.P.E., PO Box 848, Middle Island, NY 11953, on the Internet at 2600@well.sf.ca.us. We need ideas, people, technology, and karma. H.O.P.E. - August 13th and 14th at the Hotel Pennsylvania, right in the middle of bustling New York City (Seventh Avenue and 34th Street, right across the street from Penn Station). We've rented out the entire top floor (except for the mysterious NYNEX office). Special rates of $99 a night are available from the hotel (double rooms, four can probably fit easily). Cheaper places are also available as is nearly anything else. This is New York City, after all. Admission to the conference is $20 for the entire weekend if you preregister, $25 at the door, regardless of whether you stay for two days or five minutes. We encourage you to bring a computer so you can tie into our giant Ethernet and add to the fun. We hope you try to hack root on the system we'll be running -- all attendees will get accounts with prizes for the penetrators. Dancing and merchandising in the halls; Cellular phone workshop; Celebration of the Clipper Chip (not); Hacker videos from all over the world; Surveillance demos; Hacker legends from around the globe; It's not Woodstock - It's The Future; Many more details are on the way. Information sources: 2600 Magazine The Hacker Quarterly Summer 1994 edition Off The Hook Wednesdays, 10:00 pm WBAI 99.5 FM New York City 2600 Voice BBS 516-473-2626 alt.2600 on the Internet ------------------------------ From: alf@enea.se (Alf Oennestam) Subject: European Real-Time Seminar 1994 Organization: Enea Data AB Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 10:08:24 GMT ENEA DATA AB and TELELOGIC AB are pleased to invite you to the seminar: ********** Designing communication systems for future demands ********* This seminar will give you an overwiew of the possibilities our tools can offer you in real-time design, to preserve your investment for the future. TELELOGIC AB The product SDT, which is an SDL Design Tool for development and ITEX used for test specification of real-time systems. ENEA DATA AB which is OSE real-time operating system products, including OSE delta, designed for distributed and fault-tolerant applications. Seminars will be held at foolowing places: Sweden Stockholm May 24 Norway Oslo May 26 Finland Helsinki May 27 Italy Milan May 30 France Toulouse May 31 Aix de Provence June 1 Rennes June 2 Paris June 3 Austria Vienna June 6 Switzerland Zurich June 7 Germany Stuttgart June 8 Munich June 9 Frankfurt June 10 England London June 21 All seminars are free of charge. Please request further information by email from: alf@enea.se or from: ENEA DATA AB Phone +46 8 638 50 00 Fax +46 8 538 50 50 Box 232 S-183 23 TABY SWEDEN ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 07:03:39 EDT From: Gregory P. Monti Subject: Bellcore to Assign NPA 500 codes A story in the May 11 issue of {Communications Daily} notes that the FCC has given Bellcore permision to assign NXX codes within new NPA 500. 500 is the special access code that will be used for non-geographically-based services, mainly wireless ones like beepers, personal communications services (PCS) and cellular phones. The idea is to avoid separate roamer port numbers and roaming charges. Bellcore had been asked to delay any work on the 500 front until fairness issues were worked out. Now that an Industry Carriers Compatibility Forum has reached consensus on assignment guidelines, the Commission felt it was time to release Bellcore from their 'hold'. The FCC cautioned that it does not want to see numbers assigned "frivolously, hoarded by assignees or prematurely exhausted." Number portability among carriers is not required by the order but it is assumed that numbers within NPA 500 will eventually become portable. Bellcore will need to negotiate with (and adjudicate conflicts among) the 126 carriers who have requested 437 of the possible 792 NXX codes within the 500 NPA. Bellcore would probably start assignments within a few months. Greg Monti Arlington, Virginia, USA gmonti@cap.gwu.edu ------------------------------ From: blarrib@netcom.com (Bob Larribeau) Subject: Conference: Using ISDN to Work Through the Next Earthquake Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 21:22:27 GMT Using ISDN to Work through the Next Earthquake The California ISDN Users' Group Conference June 7 & 8, Sheraton Newport Beach The California ISDN Users' Group is holding a conference on how ISDN and other new communications technologies can be used to keep people working after a major disaster. The conference will include presentations and demonstrations of disaster backup, internetworking and network access, voice, video, and groupware technologies using ISDN. To attend fill out the form below and send a check for $80 ($50 without lunches) to: California ISDN Users' Group P.O. Box 27901-774 San Francisco, CA 94127 Name_____________________________________________________________________ Company__________________________________________________________________ Address__________________________________________________________________ City/State/Zip___________________________________________________________ Telephone/email__________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send any questions to Bob Larribeau at "blarrib@netcom.com". Plenary Tuesday 8:30 - 10:00 Stan Kluz - Chairman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Welcome and CIUG activities. Keynote - Byron Wagner World-class technology consultant describes his experience using ISDN to solve problems for global organizations like the Walt Disney Company, Apple Computer, Ricoh, and 20th Century Fox. Here's your opportunity to see how media-savvy companies are reinventing themselves with technology and get a high altitude view of the implosion of media and communications. Bob Larribeau - Program Chairman Conference program. Data Networking Track ISDN Data Networking Overview Tuesday 10:30 - 12:00 Bob Larribeau - Consultant Overview of using ISDN for backing up and accessing remote networks. Anita Freeman & Jack Robertson - Pacific Bell Experiences with ISDN after the Northridge earthquake. Ruth Winkler - Pacific Bell Switched 56 service and its relationship to ISDN Wayne McCallum - GTE How GTE's ISDN implementation enhances remote network applications. ISDN Backup for Data Networks Tuesday 1:30 - 3:00 Heather Vaughn - Racal Data Communications Gene Litt - Controlware Two suppliers discuss ISDN as an ideal technology for keeping networks up during a disaster at minimum cost. Larry Cynar - Pacific Bell Pacific Bell customizes private data networks to increase disaster resistance. Bill Bloom - Dunsnet How Dunsnet uses ISDN to keep their network in operation. Data Connectivity Tuesday 3:00 - 5:00 Leslie Conway - Adtran ISDN connectivity for a broad range of high speed data communications applications. Bruce Dillon - IBM Board for the PC that not only supports ISDN, but also can be used as a data or fax modem. Richard Brennan - AT&T Using ISDN to support both voice, video and data in the home. ISDN Remote Network Access Wednesday 8:30 - 10:30 Tom Williams - Combinet Gene Chang - Extension Technology Greg Larson - Digiboard Three suppliers of ISDN equipment that provide high performance remote access to LANs Scott Yeager - MFS Datanet User of ISDN for dialup access to an ATM network. Data Networking Solutions Wednesday 10:30 - 12:00 Pete Moulds - Ascend Communications Danny Young - Intel Jim Hietala - Network Express Jerome Calgo - Transtream Four suppliers of ISDN equipment that interconnects LANs or provides remote access to LANs. Terry Tompkins - Motorola An ISDN user's experience with hardware and software options for accessing LANs from home. Data Networking User Experience Wednesday 1:30 - 3:00 Bill Brasuell - Tandem Experiences at the early stages of extending a large modem based work at home program to ISDN. Ed Tynan - Motorola Inexpensive security measures that significantly reduce the security risks of dialup LAN access. Natalie Clinton - LLNL Lawrence Livermore Labs experiences in implementing a large ISDN based work at home program. Pat Krause - McDonald's The first ISDN user in the U.S. will say how and why he are uses ISDN to support work at home and LAN interconnection. Voice/Video/Groupware Track ISDN Centrex Voice Services Tuesday 10:30 - 12:00 Ella Spradley - Pacific Bell J. Griffin - GTE How ISDN Centrex offerings can assure continued communications after a disaster. ISDN Centrex Voice Applications Tuesday 1:30 - 3:00 Joe Saaveda - Telrad T. Gartman - Lodestar Two suppliers of ISDN telephones will describe how ISDN supports low cost, flexible phone services. J. Pokress - Teloquent Will describe how ISDN can be used to support distributed, work at home customer service. ISDN Groupware Tuesday 3:30 - 5:00 Gary Gysin - Crosswise Curtis Albrecht - Eye Tel Two suppliers of groupware software applications will discuss enhancing communications after a disaster. ISDN Video Wednesday 8:30 - 10:00 Richard Grace - British Telecom New cost effective video solutions for up new applications at lower cost and with rapid deployment. Carl Kikerpill - Compression Labs ISDN providing flexible video conferencing that supports face to face communication after a disaster. Jeffrey Starr - McGaw, Inc. Experience using video conferencing over ISDN. ISDN Video Wednesday 10:30 - 12:00 Intel - name not available at press time PC based video solutions using ISDN. Pat Krause - McDonald's User evaluation of ISDN video systems. Special Session Alternative Technologies Wednesday 1:30 - 3:00 Pushpendra Mohta - CERFNet The role of the Internet in work at home and disaster recovery. Keith Nesson - Pacific Bell Applications using Fast Packet Services (SMDS, Frame Relay, ATM) to provide distributed, fault-tolerant corporate networks. Demonstrations ISDN products and applications will be demonstrated by 17 different companies on both Tuesday and Wednesday. Adtran Extension Technology Ascend Communications IBM AT&T Intel British Telecom Lodestar Technologies Combinet Network Express Compression Labs Northern Telecom Controlware Pacific Bell Crosswise Transtream Digiboard ------------------------------ From: mal@adc.com (Michael A Leo) Subject: Wanted: X25 Package For SCO UNIX Date: 11 May 1994 16:51:16 GMT Organization: ADC Telecommunications Hi, I am looking for an x25 communications package for use with SCO UNIX. We are porting our product to the SCO environment from the Sun environment. I am most familiar with SunConnect's SunLink X.25 product. If anyone knows of a solution, please let me know. Thank you, Michael Leo ADC Telecommunications (612) 936-8305 (voice) mike_leo@adc.com ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V14 #209 ******************************