TELECOM Digest Mon, 6 Mar 95 17:59:00 CST Volume 15 : Issue 137 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Conference: "Local Number Portability" April 25-26, 1995 (Kevin Shea) Voicemail System Wanted (sgrossin@carleton.edu) Need Help on Panasonic Fax KX-F90 (Marko Ruokonen) Information Wanted on Excell Telecommunications (Ian Eisenberg) Help! Telephony Programming (John Michael Okeefe) Intralata Database Wanted (wshatford@aol.com) T1 -> Modems (scottpcs@aol.com) E-Mail Privacy Bill Information Available (James Bass via Stephen Goodman) Information Wanted on Fiber Market in NYC (rWMyRQ78@interramp.com) Norstar DR5.1 and $$ (John W. Warne) Re: Requesting Information About SDH (Hendrik Rood) Re: Automatic Message Accounting Standard Wanted (Travis Russell) Dialogic H/W For Sale (Neil L. Kleeman) Paging Interface With Computer (Huang Zhengqian) This Newsgroup Demo'ed on PBS's "Internet Show" (Robert Casey) Re: Yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local CO (Benjamin P. Carter) Re: Pizza Hut in Atlanta (Steve Friedlander) 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 America On Line. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. Subscriptions are available to qualified organizations and individual readers. Write and tell us how you qualify: * telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu * The Digest is edited, published and compilation-copyrighted by Patrick Townson of Skokie, Illinois USA. You can reach us by postal mail, fax or phone at: 9457-D Niles Center Road Skokie, IL USA 60076 Phone: 500-677-1616 Fax: 708-329-0572 ** Article submission address only: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu ** Our archives are located at lcs.mit.edu and are available by using anonymous ftp. 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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: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 17:30:52 -0500 From: kjshea@interactive.net Subject: Conference: "Local Number Portability" April 25-26, 1995 I believe most of the readers here will be pleased to read the following. TELECOM RESEARCH SERVICES PRESENTS A CONFERENCE ON "LOCAL NUMBER PORTABILITY" RADISSON HOTEL NEWARK AIRPORT NEWARK, NEW JERSEY APRIL 25-26, 1995 PURPOSE: The purpose of the conference is to inform those attending about current trials currently in progress or planned, explore the network architectures being considered, and discuss the issues facing the industry as it tries to balance the rush to local exchange competition and the absolute need to maintain high service quality. LOCATION: Radisson Hotel - Newark Airport 128 Frontage Road Newark, NJ 07114 (201) 690-5500 or (800) 333-3333. DATE: April 25 - 26, 1995 CONFERENCE AGENDA: IMPORTANT NOTE: Registration and continental breakfast will be at 7:45 am each day and the conference will begin promptly at 8:15 am. A buffet lunch will be served on Tuesday and a cocktail reception will be held on Tuesday evening. The conference will adjourn at 12:15 pm on Wednesday. While no significant changes in the agenda are planned, registrants will be provided with all updated information if additional topics and speakers are added. A panel discussion is planned to conclude the conference on Wednesday morning, but this has yet to be confirmed. Tuesday, April 25, 1995 (8:15 - 5:15) & Wednesday, April 26, 1995 (8:15 - 12:15) * Local Number Portability in Perspective - John F. Shea, Consultant (formally Bellcore) * Equal Access, 800 Portability, and now, Local Number Portability: the next major network transition! * Industry Numbering Committee (INC), An Update - Bob Hirsch, AT&T What progress is being made to implement Local Number Portability? What are the issues? * A Local Number Portability Trial In Washington State - Mark Foster, Stratus Computer Who's participating? What is the trial architecture? What's been learned? What's next? * A Local Number Portability Trial In New York State - Greg Patenaude, NYPSC Who's participating? What is the trial architecture? What's been learned? What's next? * National Local Number Portability? - Carol Mattey, FCC 800 Portability was mandated in 1993, will this be necessary for Local Number Portability? Will the FCC play the same role as it did with 800? Is there any action planned at this time? * A Database For Local Number Portability - Chris Sommers, Bellcore (invited) How does Local Number Portability compare to 800 Database? Capacity, performance, reliability? * Local Number Portability In Europe - David Rogerson, Ovum Ltd. Is Local Number Portability being implemented in the European networks? What form is it taking? Are there comparisons to the U.S. network? * A Local Number Portability RFP -Terry Appenzeller, Ameritech What is the RFP all about ( the purpose, expected outcome)? * The New York Trial & AIN Deployment - Representative, NYNEX (invited) Is AIN needed for Local Number Portability? Why? What's the status in the NYNEX network? CONFERENCE REGISTRATION SUGGESTION: We suggest you take advantage of the team registration which will save 10% on each additional registrant. Also, this conference will have a limited number of available seating. Early registration will ensure that your space is confirmed. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION: CONFERENCE FEES: The registration fee for this conference is $749. This fee covers continental breakfast on April 25 and 26, buffet deli style lunch and cocktail reception on April 25, break beverages and snacks, as well as, all conference materials. There is a 10% discount given for each additional team (same company) registrant. Standard Registration_________ $749 Additional Team Registrants __ $670 HOTEL REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION: If you will be utilizing the reduced rate of $125 per night, please call the Radisson Hotel, Newark Airport directly at (201) 690-5500 or their central reservations at (800) 333-3333. The Radisson provides free shuttle service to and from the Newark Airport. When registering at the hotel, be sure to mention that you are attending the "Telecom Research Services/Number Portability Conference". Reservations with the Radisson should be made no later than April 6, 1995. SPECIAL AIRFARE RATES AND INFORMATION: We have made special arrangements with Continental Airlines for reduced airfare rates. Call 1-800-468-7022 (ref. code: IWPXND) to utilize these low rates. QUESTIONS: Contact Kevin Shea at (201) 535-2765 or email to kjshea@interactive.net (subject: Telecom conf. #501). ------------------------------ From: sgrossin@carleton.edu (seth) Subject: Voicemail System Wanted Date: 6 Mar 95 12:52:53 CST Organization: Carleton College -- Northfield, MN My client is looking for an inbound voicemail/telenotification system for providing callers with messages ("listings"). This system must meet the following requirements: - A DOS or Windows-based solution; - Support for up to five different option levels (e.g. categories, subcate- gories, etc. ending with listings); - Excellent message management (delete, update, view); - Message copy/paste capabilities; - Automatic deletion of messages older than two weeks; - Support for up to 3000 1-minute messages; - Multiple paths to the same listings (e.g. by type, then area, then listing, or by area, then type, then the same listing); - Support for multiple phone lines (two to five). If anyone has information on a system that meets some or all of these requirements, would you let me know? Or if anyone has an idea of where else I could search for such a system, could you let me know that as well? Thanks much, Seth (sgrossin@carleton.edu) ------------------------------ Date: 06 Mar 95 11:26:36 EST From: Marko Ruokonen <100031.31@compuserve.com> Subject: Need Help on Panasonic Fax KX-F90 I need help in figuring out a problem with a Panasonic FAX KX-F90. A friend got that unit some time ago without manuals. The unit operates OK, except that on sending a fax, it prints an error message #05 indicating that the original did not feed correctly. However, the fax is delivered OK and the receiving unit indicates OK reception. I've tried to send faxes to different other machines; the problem exists with all of them. The exchange was converted from analog to digital last week, but the problem existed before, also. Does anybody have a clue to where the problem might be or if some config- uration is needed to get the unit working? Panasonic, Germany is not much help here; they say that unit is not sold in Europe and therefore, they do not support it here. Help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Marko Ruokonen E-Mail: 100031.31@compuserve.com ------------------------------ From: ian@cyberspace.com (Ian Eisenberg) Subject: Information Wanted on Excell Telecommunications Date: 6 Mar 1995 22:11:39 GMT Organization: US NETWORK Does anyone know anything about Excell Telecommunications. I think they are a multi-level mkting type of deal. Any information would be appreciated. ian@cyberspace.com ------------------------------ From: jmokeefe@nachos.engr.ucdavis.edu (John Michael Okeefe) Subject: Help! Telephony Programming Date: 5 Mar 1995 00:51:38 GMT Organization: College of Engineering - University of California - Davis I'm trying to write a program for my ZOOM voice/data/fax modem. It uses the Rockwell chip for voice processing and the AT+V command set. I am writing this program in Visual Basic. My problem has two parts. First the documentation for the AT+V command set says that while playing or recording voice data the modem can receive and interpet DTMF tones. The documentation says that if a DTMF tone is played while voice processing the modem will send a shielded result code to the DTE. I have been able to receive normal result codes such as "OK" when issuing an AT command but I don't understand how to receive a shielded result code while I'm receiving voice data. My second problem is that there I have been unable to find information on writing communications software using Visual Basic and the AT command set. If you have experience writing a program using the AT+V command set I would appreciate any help you could give me in solving the above problems. Thanks, John O'Keefe University of California, Davis Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Biomechanics and Sports Lab E-Mail: JMOKEEFE@ENGR.UCDAVIS.EDU ------------------------------ From: wshatford@aol.com (WShatford) Subject: Intralata Database Wanted Date: 5 Mar 1995 13:11:37 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Reply-To: wshatford@aol.com (WShatford) Is there a database I can access that will list the intralata NPA-NXX's for a given NPA-NXX? Thanks. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Carl Moore is a person that keeps rather extensive files on this. He or Dave Leibold might be able to help you. PAT] ------------------------------ From: scottpcs@aol.com (ScottPCS) Subject: T1 -> Modems Date: 5 Mar 1995 13:28:09 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Reply-To: scottpcs@aol.com (ScottPCS) I need to bring in a T1 line to 24 1200 baud modems for my company. It seems like an inefficient solution to run the T1 into a channel bank to end up with 24 phone lines and then plug in 24 modems plugged into 24 serial ports. Is there any type of hardware that can handle this T1 / modem problem better? Preferrably something PC based (Windows NT) and cheap . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 14:53:00 EST From: Stephen Goodman <0003945654@mcimail.com> Subject: Fwd: E-mail Privacy Bill Information Available Pat, I thought I would forward this along to readers of the Digest. Steve G. 3945654@mcimail.com ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- Date: Saturday, 04-Mar-95 10:17 AM From: Telecommunications and Information Marketing \ Internet: (ritim-l@uriacc.uri.edu) Subject: E-mail Privacy Bill For those of you interested in seeing the bill that was introduced in the house. access with a web browser: http://thomas.loc.gov Run a query with the following words: Workers and Consumers Privacy Act S.984 This will get you the entire bill. James Bass http://web.syr.edu/~jhbass jhbass@mailbox.syr.edu Syracuse University, NY ------------------------------ úÿ Subject: Information Wanted on Fiber Market in NYC Date: 5 Mar 1995 06:41:23 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link If anyone has and can forward, or knows where to find, information on the fiber optic network market in New York City, please let me know. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Mar 95 12:43:52 EST From: John W Warne <19064001@SBACVM.SBAC.EDU> Organization: School Board of Alachua County, FL. Subject: Norstar DR5.1 and $$. I have received a "Product Bulletin" from Northern Telecom, outlining some 14 "Design Changes" between DR5 and DR5.1 software. In my opinion, most (if not all) of the changes are to correct deficiencies in the existing DR5 software. For example, one change is called "End of conference Privacy Release lock-up." Sounds like a bug to me. Several other changes apply patches to areas known to allow a user to defeat the toll restriction in the Norstar. One vendor says there is no trade-in. We are faced with simply buying the new DR5.1 software package for the same price we paid for the original DR5 ($413.65), and chunking the DR5 in the trashcan. I'm not pleased with the prospect of spending over $4,000.00 for what I consider to be a "bug fix." Has anyone else received similar news? Better pricing? ------------------------------ From: roodh@dds.nl (Hendrik Rood) Subject: Re: Requesting Information About SDH Date: Mon, 06 Mar 95 02:47:28 GMT Organization: Hendriks Humble Home Hero In article , dehoog@st.rim.or.jp (John DeHoog) wrote: > In article , wgan@netcom.com (willy > gan) wrote: >> I'd often seen the words SDH or SDH compatible equipment >> advertised in data communication magazines. Can anyone explain >> or give me examples of what SDH stands for? > SDH stands for Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, for starters. I'm not > sure that tells us much, and it's not even necessarily an apt term; > but what I do know is that it's an optical signal interface standard > used in optical fiber networks, to transport digital voice, data, and > video signals over long distances. Here in Japan, some major telecom > makers have developed SDH equipment based on the CTRON specifications. SDH is the international (ITU) version of the US (ANSI) SONET-standards. SDH starts at bitrates of 155 Mbit/s which compares to US SONET-OC3. The major differences between SONET and SDH for 155 Mbit/s and above lies in the overhead and network management features, also terminology in SONET and SDH differs slightly. SONET talks about Virtual Tributaries, SDH about Virtual Containers. Although incompatible it is expected in future systems that conversion between SDH and SONET is more a software issue than a hardware issue. But in the first hardware implementations this is still not the case, because manufacturers have implemented some functions in firmware in the interface-cards. Hendrik Rood ------------------------------ From: russell@trussell.pdial.interpath.net (Travis Russell) Subject: Re: Automatic Message Accounting Standard Wanted Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 22:45:51 +0000 Organization: Travis Russell Reply-To: russell@trussell.pdial.interpath.net (Travis Russell) In article , telenet!emerson!ggoldman@ uunet.uu.net (Gerry Goldman) writes: > Can anyone tell me where I can get information on the Automatic > Message Accounting (AMA) format. This is purported to be a Bellcore > format for ATM billing records. Try Bellcore. This is a Bellcore standard, and a Bellcore publication. Don't know the number off-hand, but I think you can find them on the WWW under http://www.bellcore.com. Travis Russell russell@trussell.pdial.interpath.net Author of "Signaling System #7," McGraw-Hill ------------------------------ From: ssinlk@solsys.com (Neil L. Kleeman) Subject: Dialogic H/W For Sale Organization: Solution Systems Inc. Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 10:44:11 GMT We have some surplus Dialogic hardware that has become available: QTY Description Retail Price Each --- ------------------------------- ----------------- 2 D41D Analog Interface Card $1,495 1 D121/A Analog Interface Card $1,495 1 DMX Digital Switch $ 995 1 DTI/101 T1 Interface Card $1,495 1 DID/40 DID Chassis w/ 4 Line Cards $ 595 This stuff made a great call-back system. Make me an offer that I can't refuse by email. Neil L. Kleeman, President Internet: ssinlk@solsys.com Solution Systems Incorporated Voice: (610) 668-4620 114 Forrest Avenue Fax: (610) 668-2157 Narberth, PA 19072 ------------------------------ From: zqhuang@sunmp.csd.hku.hk (HUANG Zhengqian) Subject: Paging Interface With Computer Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 06:08:42 GMT Hi, Does anybody know if there is a paging receiver that can be connected to a computer so that data received over the air can be sent to the computer? zqhuang ------------------------------ From: wa2ise@netcom.com (Robert Casey) Subject: This Newsgroup Demo'ed on PBS's "Internet Show" Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 02:12:22 GMT I saw a show about the Internet on PBS Saturday, Mar 4. It actually talked about something other than porno and child molesters on the 'net. They actually did a reasonably good job talking about newsgroups, ftp'ing, telnet'ing, golpher, and such. They did a demo of newsgroup reading, think it was this very group, and they demo'ed how to post. They responded to a question about how many long distance lines crossed the USA (he said he was sure the number was 42). [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Unfortunatly, I don't think it would have been this Digest, since I don't recall a question like that appearing here at any time in the recent past. It probably was one of the telecom related newsgroups on Usenet. None the less, the intentions were good and the producer of the show is to be congratulated for showing something positive and tasteful about the information superhighway. Lord knows there are enough newspaper writers out there more than willing to discuss the milieu of the public toilets at the rest stops along the information highway which disguise themselves as 'news groups'. PAT] ------------------------------ From: bpc@netcom.com (Benjamin P. Carter) Subject: Re: Yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local CO. Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 20:50:34 GMT gary.novosielski@sbaonline.gov writes: > I, for one, would not be willing to toss the privacy rights of the > caller on the trash heap merely on the strength of a "claim" by any > given residential customer that they found the call "obnoxious." With very few exceptions (e.g. to protect social workers who need to call anonymously), I WOULD be willing to deny the caller the right of anonymity. I would be equally willing to let him remain anonymous if I had the option of blocking all anonymous calls. In other words, I DON'T WANT TO RECEIVE ANONYMOUS CALLS. > There has been ample discussion of all the reasons against Caller-ID, > or at least in favor of blocking options. Many of these reasons are > very "good" ones, and in some cases arguably protect the very lives of > the callers involved. I won't rehash them all here. Neither will I, except to say that the valid reasons apply to very few callers. Most anonymous callers are up to no good. In general callers have too much privacy, and callees too little. It is time to strike a proper balance. > in this context, I think the list of "good" reasons for privacy should > should start with: > 1. "Because I Feel Like It." I agree, and that is why I don't want to receive anonymous calls, junk phone calls, repeated calls from jerks who won't leave messages, etc. On the other hand, I never call anyone with the intention of concealing my identity. Like 99.99% of callers, I have no valid reason to conceal my identity. For most of us, "callers' rights" are like "smokers' rights" -- a concept that doesn't withstand analysis. -- Ben Carter internet address: bpc@netcom.com [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The reason "smoker's rights" ever became an issue in this country in my opinion is because there are so many discourteous smokers. For example, it would never occur to me to light up in your presence if I knew that it offended you. I might not see you very often, perhaps of my own choice, but I would try and respect your feelings when we did have occassion to meet. I come to your home and see no ashtrays anywhere, I don't even bother asking 'may I smoke?'. I see ashtrays, then I will ask. It wouldn't occur to me to sit at dinner with others and light a cigarette after my meal until the others had finished eating and wanted to do the same. I often times ride in a car with a friend who is driving; he is not a smoker. In the summer when the windows are open he does not object if I smoke. In the winter when the car is closed up it matters. For a short ride I wait until we get to wherever we are going. We've gone on a couple of longer trips together and reached a compromise that I would sit in the back seat with the window open a bit and my cigarette out the window. Courteous smokers who care about the rights of non-smokers can nearly always reach a reasonable compromise with others. There are some smokers who are concerned enough about this courtesy that they never smoke at all outside their own home. But like the good guys on the Internet, you never hear about them. You only hear about the ones who light up in elevators, on the bus or right across the aisle from someone eating dinner who has an allergy to cigarette smoke. I certainly hope my smoking is never offensive to a non-smoker. PAT] ------------------------------ From: stevef@mcs.com (steve friedlander) Subject: Re: Pizza Hut in Atlanta Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:45:56 CST Organization: MCSNet In article tkoppel@carl.org (Ted Koppel) writes: > Curiously, the Pizza Huts in Atlanta are moving in a direction > opposite to that in Toronto. Last fall, there was one number > (662-5555) that was for the entire metro area, and they did the > routing of the pizza order themselves. > Now, a call to 662-5555 gets you to a person who asks your home phone > number (don't they have Caller ID?), and asks you to dial the Pizza > Hut in your area (and supplies you that number). > I haven't been buying nearly as much Pizza Hut pizza since they changed > their system here. Unfortunately, Pizza Hut is stuck in the Pepsico red tape. We have proposed tests anywhere in the US with an 800 service. We have full ten digit routing capabilities with instant updating when a new phone number hits the area. Imagine, no matter where you are, a single 800 number that routes you instantly to the closest physical location! To bad for red tape. Steve Friedlander e-mail: stevef@mcs.com Increasing productivity through enhanced communications. The leader in "Value Added" 800 service is Arch Telecom! ************************1.800.ARCH.TEL************************* url: http://www.onramp.net/ron/arch ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #137 ******************************