TELECOM Digest Tue, 18 Jan 94 08:31:30 CST Volume 14 : Issue 39 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Telecom 95 - Call For Papers - Technology Summit (Robert Shaw) Earthquake News (David Whiteman) ISDN Primer and Video Uses (Lee Sweet) ISDN NT1 Power Source (Paul D. Guthrie) Digital Equipment and USA Video Sign OEM Agreement (John Hildebrand) Requirements for Predictive Dialing Systems (Bob Baxter) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 18 Jan 1994 09:42:54 GMT From: SHAW +41 22 730 5338 Subject: Telecom 95 - Call For Papers - Technology Summit TELECOM 95 CALL FOR PAPERS - TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT, FORUM 95 THE TELECOM 95 FORUM TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT TELECOM is the "Olympics of Communications", held every four years by the International Telecommunication Union, and is the largest event of this type in the world. TELECOM is a truly international event. TELECOM 91 attracted over 130,000 attendees, 850 exhibitors, and 1700 press representatives from 164 countries. TELECOM 95 will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 3-11 October 1995 and will comprise an Exhibition and Book Fair, Strategies Summit, and Technology Summit. The Technology Summit will, for the first time, provide an interactive arena for users, traditional telecoms companies, computer and consumer electronics giants, broadcast and cable television interests, and entertainment and software companies. This Technology Summit will present keynote speeches, discussion panels, and session papers representing state of the art or new visions of technology, services, and applications. Thousands of leading users, managers, scientists, and engineers will attend. Given the rapid convergence of technologies and the need for timely solutions, this is an opportunity not to be missed. The theme of the Technology Summit is: "Convergence of technologies, services and applications". THE NEW TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT A new communications industry is emerging. Computers, networking and software are already key components of telecommunications. Broadcast, entertainment and consumer electronics industries are now also important players. The Technology Summit of FORUM 95 will address this re-balancing. As examples: * Portable computing and mobile communications are both targeting a mass consumer market. * The entertainment industry is seeking delivery of interactivity and broadband services to the consumer. * Business users are demanding seamless and cost-effective wide area networks to link their local networks. * The integration of highly complex functions on a single chip is creating paradigm shifts in all related industries. * Designing applications has emerged as the challenge of the future. Because technological solutions cannot be divorced from developmental, social, economic, and environmental issues, the Technology Summit also welcomes applications contributions from these related areas. TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT - MAIN TRACKS Featuring papers that will focus on applying technology and creating applications in this cross-sectoral environment, the event will be structured on three levels of human communication needs: 1. Communications services for the individual 2. Communications services for business 3. National, regional and global issues TRACK 1 - Communications services for the individual This track addresses voice, text, data and video communications services for individuals whether at home, at work, or on the move. The aim is to attract contributions from consumer, entertainment, computing and software businesses, in addition to the telecommunications business on: * Personal and personalized services, including personal number and mobility; * Entertainment services provided on cable television or telecommunications-based systems; * Networked computing applications; * Mass market consumer technologies and applications (inexpensive, easy to use, pocketable); * Personal assistant, telemedicine, tele-education, teleshopping, home security, support for disabled people and the elderly; * Broadcasting and other information/entertainment services including cable television and interactive broadcast services; * Wireless technologies and applications. TRACK 2 - Communications services for business This track addresses higher performance networks, distributed computing and information systems which are enabling improved services for business users and which are becoming increasingly market specific. It seeks papers which report experiences of the new "telebusinesses" e.g. medicine, finance, telemarketing, telelogistics, as well as papers on new developments in the enabling technologies such as: * Computer-supported cooperative working, including desk top videoconferencing. * Security, privacy and authentication. * Network management, intelligent networks and virtual networking. * Network interoperability, availability, and reliability. * Broadband communications. * Intelligent information services. * Enterprise and corporate networking. TRACK 3 - National, regional and global issues This track addresses issues of general interest of telecommunications, including the view on economic and regulatory aspects and their inter- relationship with convergent technologies. The aim is to attract contri- butions from telecommunications experts as well as from economists, regulators, and other governmental agencies in such areas as: * Regulatory aspects of portability and interconnection of services, e.g. numbering, billing, security/privacy, frequency allocation, etc. * Environmental applications, e.g. teleworking, teleconferencing, traffic and fleet control, telesurveillance, etc. * Restructuring of the telecommunication sector and service evolution in developing and developed countries. * Cross-cultural applications, e.g. real time interpretation, voice recognition and synthesis, conversion between text, voice and picture based services, etc. * The implications of regional standards and trading organizations. * The implications of convergent industries and technologies. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: * Papers should give an overview of the present situation and/or the direction for the next century. * Papers on detailed theory and specific products, or company presentations, are outside the scope of the event and will be rejected, as will those which are overtly commercial or which treat military subjects. * Papers must be unpublished and based on original research, developments and approaches. * Papers delivered in the Technology Summit will be published in the Book of Speakers' Papers. Written contributions to the panel sessions will also be included in the Book of Speakers' Papers. Additional papers will be selected for publication only. Authors are requested to submit a one-page (single-sided) abstract of their proposed paper to the TELECOM 95 Forum Secretariat as shown on the attached form. Abstracts must give a clear indication of the paper's contents. Abstracts must be submitted in one of the conference languages which are English, French and Spanish. DEADLINES All abstracts must be received in the TELECOM 95 Forum Secretariat by 15 August 1994. Abstracts received after this deadline will be automatically rejected. National representatives listed on the reverse side of the abstract form are available for guidance. IMPORTANT Companies or administrations are requested to coordinate their submissions of abstracts so that only one copy of each abstract is received by the TELECOM 95 Forum Secretariat. Abstracts may be submitted by mail, telefax, or e-mail. Receipt will be acknowledged. The TELECOM 95 Forum Secretariat will correspond directly with principal authors. The TELECOM 95 Forum Secretariat will notify authors by 10 January 1995 as to whether their proposed papers have been: a) accepted for oral presentation; b) accepted for a panel session; c) accepted for publication only; d) not accepted. INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION The ITU is an inter-governmental organization, within which the public and private sectors cooperate for the development of telecommunications and the harmonization of national telecommunication policies. The ITU adopts international regulations and treaties governing all terrestrial and space uses of the frequency spectrum, as well as the use of the geostationary- satellite orbit and develops standards to ensure the interconnection of telecommunication systems on a worldwide scale. It's 182* Member Administrations, and the much wider network that forms the ITU family, are proud of the ITU's record of achievement in keeping pace with technological change. With this goal in mind, and also to keep up with the convergence of technologies, the ITU has been restructured, with clear objectives outlined for each of the three new Sectors: Radiocommunication, Standardization and Development. * as of 12 November 1993 7th WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION FORUM President Dr. Pekka Tarjanne, Secretary-General of the ITU Chairman, Management Committee Mr. Tom Dahl-Hansen, Executive Director, TELECOM Project Manager TELECOM 95 Mrs. Lili Rison Project Officer Technology Summit Ms. Elizabeth A. Lake TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chairman Mr. Keith W. Hoffman, STENTOR Resource Center Inc. (Canada) Vice-Chairman Dr. John E. Thompson, BT Laboratories (United Kingdom) Honorary Chairman Mr. Marcel Thui, CNET (France) Members Prof. Minoru Akiyama, Shibaura Institute of Technology (Japan) Mr. Peter Bachofner, Siemens-Albis (Switzerland) Mr. Roberto Blois, Department of Private National Services (Brazil) Mr. Joachim Claus, Generaldirektion Telekom (Germany) Prof. Dr. Hermann Ebenberger, Technical University of Vienna (Austria) Mr. Glenn H. Estes, Jr., Bellcore (USA) Mr. Bertil Fougstedt, Telia Research (Sweden) Mr. Maurice Ghazal, Lebanon Permanent Representative to the international telecommunications authorities (Lebanon) Mr. Denis Gilhooly, Communications Week International Mr. Josi Gonzalez, Ministerio de Transporte y Comunicaciones (Venezuela) Prof. Giza Gordos, Scientific Society for Telecommunication (Hungary) Dr. Rolf B. Haugen, Norwegian Telecom Research (Norway) Dr. Viljo Hentinen, Nokia Corporation (Finland) Mr. Bruce Hunter, Voice of America (USA) Dr. Theodor Irmer, Standardization Bureau, ITU Dr. Marko Jagodic, Iskratel (Republic of Slovenia) Mr. Zhou Jixin, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (People's Republic of China) Mr. Richard Kirby, Radiocommunications Bureau, ITU Mr. Corentin Penn, SEE (France) Mr. William Robinson, Bell-Northern Research (Canada) Mr. Fred Sammartino, Sun Microsystems (USA) Dr. A.R. Sharafat, Tarbiat Modarres University (Islamic Republic of Iran) Mr. Stuart Sharrock, Pan European Mobile Communications Prof. B.S. Sonde, Indian Institute of Science (India) Prof. Guido Tartara, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Mr. Ib Thomsen, Jydsk Telefon (Denmark) Mr. Johan van Egmond, Philips Communication Systems (Netherlands) Dr. Seungtaik Yang, ETRI (Republic of Korea) H.E. Prof. Dr. Andrzej Zielinski, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Republic of Poland) TELECOM 95 FORUM CALL FOR PAPERS - ABSTRACT FORM Track No: ............... Title of paper: ......................................................................... ......................................................................... Author's Author's Family name:.............................First name:..................... Title:................................................................... Company: ......................................................................... ......................................................................... Address: ......................................................................... ......................................................................... Town/City: ......................................................................... Zip:........... Country:............................... Telephone: ...... ....... ............ Fax: ...... ....... ............ Country Area Number Country Area Number code code code code Key words: ......................................................................... One-page (single-sided) abstract i.e. approximately 500 words. Abstracts exceeding these limitations will be rejected. Please return to: TELECOM 95 Forum Secretariat International Telecommunication Union Place des Nations CH-1211 Geneve 20, Switzerland Tel: +41 22 730 5680 Fax: +41 22 730 6444 X400: s=forumcfp;a=arcom;p=itu;c=ch Internet: forumcfp@itu.ch (Deadline: 15 August 1994) NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES AUSTRIA Prof. Dr. Hermann Ebenberger Technical University of Vienna Tel: +43 1 94 4312 Fax: +43 1 587 0583 e-mail:e389011@awituw01 (BITNET) BRAZIL Mr. Roberto Blois Department of Private National Services Tel: +55 61 218 6945 Fax: +55 61 223 3916 CANADA Mr. Keith W. Hoffman STENTOR Resource Center Inc. Tel: +1 519 745 8236 Fax: +1 519 745 6941 Mr. William R. Robinson Bell-Northern Research Tel: +1 613 763 2246 Fax: +1 613 763 2880 e-mail:robinson@bnr.ca CHINA (PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF) Mr. Zhou Jixin Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Tel: +861 601 1332 Fax: +861 601 1370 DENMARK Mr. Ib Thomsen Jydsk Telefon R&D Tel: +45 89 45 4545 Fax: +45 86 29 9068 FINLAND Dr. Viljo Hentinen Nokia Corporation Tel: +358 0 43 761 Fax: +358 0 45 52082 FRANCE Mr. Corentin Penn Alcatel CIT Tel: +33 96 04 7341 Fax: +33 96 48 0238 Mr. Marcel Thui CNET Tel: +33 1 45 29 4812 Fax: +33 1 45 29 6070 GERMANY (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF) Mr. Joachim Claus Generaldirektion Telekom Tel: +49 228 181 9200 Fax: +49 228 181 9299 HUNGARY Prof. Giza Gordos Scientific Society for Telecommunication Tel: +36 1 153 1027 Fax: +36 1 153 0451 Prof. George Lajtha Hungarian Telecommunications Company Tel: +36 1 555 485 Fax: +36 1 202 3256 INDIA (REPUBLIC OF) Prof. B.S. Sonde Indian Institute of Science Tel: +91 812 341 800 Fax: +91 812 341 683 IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF) Dr. A.R. Sharafat Tarbiat Modarres University Tel: +98 21 800 5900 Fax: +98 21 800 6544 ITALY Prof. Guido Tartara Politecnico di Milano Tel: +39 2 239 94576 Fax: +39 2 239 93413 JAPAN Prof. Minoru Akiyama Shibaura Institute of Technology Tel: +81 48 687 5805 Fax: +81 48 687 5198 KOREA (REPUBLIC OF) Dr. Seungtaik Yang ETRI Tel: +82 42 861 9564 Fax: +82 42 861 1033 LEBANON Mr. Maurice Habib Ghazal Lebanon permanent representative to the international telecommunication authorities Tel: +96 1120 0888 Fax: +96 1188 8600 THE NETHERLANDS Mr. Johan van Egmond Philips Communication Systems Tel: +31 40 7 57417 Fax: +31 40 7 57492 e-mail:NLEVLICC-A707513 NORWAY Dr. Rolf B. Haugen Norwegian Telecom Research Tel: +47 63 809 247 Fax: +47 63 800 511 e-mail:Rolf.Haugen@tf.tele.no POLAND (REPUBLIC OF) H.E. Prof. Dr. Andrzej Zielinski Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Tel: +48 22 26 73 66 Fax: +48 22 26 65 56 SLOVENIA (REPUBLIC OF) Dr. Marko Jagodic ISKRATEL Tel: +386 64 331 664 Fax: +386 64 221 581 SWEDEN Mr. Bertil Fougstedt Telia Research Tel: +46 8 707 5474 Fax: +46 8 707 5460 SWITZERLAND Mr. Peter Bachofner Siemens-Albis AG Tel: +41 1 495 4743 Fax: +41 1 495 5172 e-mail:peter.bachofner.saz.siemens.arcom.ch UNITED KINGDOM Dr. John E. Thompson BT Laboratories Tel: +44 473 644 775 Fax: +44 473 637 600 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Mr. Glen H. Estes Jr. Pacific Telesis Group Tel: +1 415 394 3707 Fax: +1 415 391 6714 e-mail:ghe@bellcore.com Mr. Bruce Hunter Voice of America Tel: +1 919 752 7181 Fax: +1 919 752 5959 Mr. Fred Sammartino Sun Microsystems Tel: +1 415 336 2938 Fax: +1 415 336 3156 e-mail:fred.sammartino@eng.sun.com VENEZUELA Mr. Josi Gonzalez Ministerio de Transporte y Comunicaciones Tel: +58 2 926 611 Fax: +58 2 926 555 ------------------------------ From: dbw@crash.cts.com Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 00:20:58 -0800 Subject: Earthquake News Pat, As your readers must already no LA was shook by a series of earthquakes which are probably the most devastating in LA history. Today at around 4:30 AM a 6.6 magnitude shock occurred on either the Oakridge or Devonshire faults. Both of these faults are apparently planes which are offset 30 degrees from being parallel to the ground underlying Northridge, California, unlike most faults which are perpendicular to the ground surface. My house is located in Encino which is about ten miles south from Northridge. I was awakened by a series of sharp jolts followed by a series of rolling motions which gradually tapered away. Minor rolling motion aftershocks continued almost continuously for the next few hours. Thereafter aftershocks continued during the day at times including at least five which were over 5.0 in magnitude. My house is on the mountainside overlooking the San Fernando Valley -- after the quake the valley was pitch dark. I could not see any lights at all in the valley. In my house electricity was out for almost 9 hours -- apparently the majority of the San Fernando Valley is still without power now, 16 hours after the first shock. Phone service was out at my house for over an hour -- I still hear reports on the news that some areas of the valley are without phone service in Granada Hills and Northridge. Pacific Bell announced that incoming long distance service would be blocked during the day, and to use the phone for emergency use only. All water in LA distributed North of Sunset Blvd. is not being chlorinated and needs to be boiled. Some stores are selling bottled water for $15 per quart. The communities of Reseda, Winnetka, Porter Ranch, Northridge, North Hills, and Granada Hills have been without water all day. The water has stopped where I live at around 9 PM. Several areas in Glendale and Sherman Oaks had fires caused by broken gas mains. There is a dusk to dawn curfew in the cities of Los Angeles, Glendale, San Fernando, Santa Monica, and Burbank. Disneyland was open today, but Magic Mountain, Universal Studios, the Forum, and most of the other entertainment venues were closed. Almost all resturants were closed. Today was a school and government holiday; the majority of public schools will be closed tomorrow as will UCLA. CSUN which suffered extensive damage will be closed at least until the end of the month. Two trauma centers in the valley as well as the Olive View Medical Center, a county hospital, and the Sepulveda VA Hospital were evaculated. The Olive View Hospital was the county hospital that was destroyed during the 1972 earthquake three days after it opened and was subsequently rebuilt. A Southern Pacific freight train with several cars filled with Sulfuric acid derailed in Northridge and has not leaked any acid. There is extensive damage to the Bullocks store in Northridge, and the Interstate 5 and State highway 14 interchange. Both of those places were built recently and supposed to withstand earthquakes of up to 7.1 in magnitude. The 5/14 interchange was demolished in the previous 1972 earthquake, and rebuilt supposedly earthquake safe and destroyed today. The Santa Monica Freeway between Fairfax and La Cienega was destroyed as was portions of the Simi Valley freeway. At least five people died from earthquake related heart attacks, one lady died from a head trauma while walking after the quake, at least fifteen people died in the collapsed Northridge Meadow apartments with one other person missing. As of midnight there are 27 confirmed deaths. Many people are camping outside of their houses afraid of going back inside. Many parks and softball fields have informal tent cities set up filled with people who do not feel safe indoors at the Red Cross, or Salvation Army shelters. The {Los Angeles Times} has set up an earthquake hotline on their information newsline: 808 8463 from the 213, 310, 818, 714, and 909 area codes. Donations are being accepted by the Salvation army 1 800 725 9005 David Whiteman dbw@crash.cts.com ------------------------------ From: decrsc!leesweet@uunet.UU.NET (Lee Sweet) Subject: ISDN Primer and Video Uses Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 19:39:37 EST 1. Anybody know of a good primer re ISDN: uses, options, equipment required/optional? (I saw only one book at the local tech bookstore, and that was a 1/4" volume for USD 79.00 (!) with way-too-technical contents. Maybe I want Carl's _Phone_Book_ updated for ISDN ;-) ? 2. (1) above caused by request to immediately install two ISDN BRI [I do know these are basic rate lines: 2 X 64 kbps + 16 kbps control, right?] lines for evaluation a video-conferencing system (from PictureTel, I believe). Question: Is ~128kbps enough for usable video? I though good video needed at least T1-level data? I believe the application is for consulting, which needs much more detail than just showing the 'talking heads'. 3. Can I assume that the twisted-pair we have installed is fine for ISDN? It works for 10base-T ethernet, so ... should be fine, right? All comments welcome! Lee Sweet Internet *lists* - leesweet@datatel.com Chief Systems Consultant Internet *e-mail* - lee@datatel.com Datatel, Inc. Phone - 703-968-4661 4375 Fair Lakes Court FAX - 703-968-4625 Fairfax, VA 22033 (Opinions are my own, and only my own!) ------------------------------ From: paul@vorpal.digex.net (Paul D. Guthrie) Subject: ISDN NT1 Power Source Date: 17 Jan 1994 22:04:29 GMT Organization: Vorpal Software I'm looking for a couple of answers about some ISDN questions that experience and Stalling's ISDN book have both left me unclear on. First, a CPE can be line powered (the AT&T 7506 e.g.), but my experience with NT1's are that they must be DC powered (but I've only dealt with rack mounted units). Can NT1's be line powered? Next, where are the RBOCs putting NT1s for normal residential ISDN hookups? Since the U interface range is much longer than the T interfaces, it would make sense to put NT1s at the customer site (especially for multipoint ISDN hookups, which shorten the T interface). Is this being done in practice? My reasons for asking about this are to determine whether ISDN residential lines are "lifeline" capable in all cases. I.E. can they make outgoing operator and 911 calls when powere to the residence is out? Thanks for any information, Paul Guthrie paul@vorpal.digex.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 07:12:24 CDT From: John Hildebrand Subject: Digital Equipment and USA Video Sign OEM Agreement Edwin Molina Sr VP of Marketing USA Video Corporation 800-625-2200 Tom Madden Digital Equipment Corporation Storage Business Unit 508-841-5365 Digital Equipment and USA Video sign OEM Agreement Digital Equipment Corporation announced today the signing of an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement with USA Video Corporation, enabling the two companies to work to increase their respective market share of the Video on Demand* industry, worldwide. By joining forces, Digital and USA Video will offer industry-leading video information services, including interactive video servers and end-to-end Video on Demand solutions, to the growing interactive information services market. Digital and USA Video expect to demonstrate their new relationship by jointly supporting Bell Atlantic Corporation's upcoming market trial of Video Dial Tone (VDT) through the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia. USA Video plans to function as a video information provider in the trial, providing interactive video services that employ Digital's interactive video server technology. The market trial is a commercial deployment of Video on Demand* that will be offered to 40,000 northern Virginia end users in the spring of 1994. Charles F. Christ, vice president of Digital's Storage Business Unit, said, "Today's announcement is a culmination of ongoing discussions between Digital and USA Video and highlights Digital's ability to offer the most comprehensive solutions to the interactive information and Video on Demand suppliers. Our video server platform incorporates Digital's Alpha AXP processors, StorageWorks disk storage arrays, Digital Linear Tape library systems, interactive gateway unit, server management unit, and GIGAswitch, a high-speed networking switch linking the various elements together." Gordon F. Lee, president of USA Video stated "USA Video is extremely pleased to be working with Digital on providing Video on Demand solutions to the industry. We plan to incorporate Digital's interactive video server technology into our overall end-to-end Video on Demand system, which includes programming, video compression, transmission systems, and TV set-top boxes. Digital's technology will further strengthen our product offering and enhance our position as the industry's leading video information provider." USA Video is a turnkey Video on Demand* service provider that has developed and is testing video compression, storage, server, and transmission technology necessary to offer Video on Demand entertainment and other interactive video services to residential and business customers. The company has headquarters in Century City, California, with its research and development organization located in Irving, Texas. Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's Alpha AXP platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace. Note: Alpha AXP, Digital, the Digital Logo, GIGAswitch, and StorageWorks are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. Video on Demand is a trademark of USA Video Corporation. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 16:18:12 -0400 From: Bob Baxter Subject: Requirements for Predictive Dialing Systems Hello all, I'm posting this for a friend that does not have net access: "I'm looking for some help concerning predictive dialing systems. Anyone have any ideas? I need a system that can keep 12 people with voice connections. I also realize that I'm going to need 24 incoming lines to a system that weeds out busy signals, has answering machine capabilities, and such. There are companies that set it up, both hardware and software, for about 30-50K, but I think it could be done for way less." Thanks, Virtually yours, Bob Baxter p00284@psilink.com <-- best bobthedj@aol.com <-- better bob.baxter@hofbbs.com <-- last resort ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V14 #39 *****************************