TELECOM Digest     Tue, 31 Jan 95 15:55:30 CST    Volume 15 : Issue 67

Inside This Issue:                          Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Book Review: "The Mosaic Navigator" by Gilster (Rob Slade)
    WilTel's New Telecom Atlas (Leslie Smith)
    ACC Reports Increase in Billable Minutes (Dave Leibold)
    Canada and Chile Sign Telecom Research Agreement (Nigel Allen)
    NACN Problems With Cell One/Utah (Brianhead) (Doug Reuben)
    Needed: Network Solutions Manager (Lambert Schuyler Jr.)
    Bell Atlantic ISDN, Part II (Hersh Jeff)
    More on Universal International Freephone Numbers (Judith 
Oppenheimer)
    Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN'95 - Call for Participation (J. 
Sterbenz)
    Does AT&T 7506 TAD 03A Pass CID to RS232 of Orignating Caller?
(ulmo@panix)

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 14:54:30 EST
From: Rob Slade <roberts@mukluk.decus.ca>
Subject: Book Review: "The Mosaic Navigator" by Gilster


BKMOSNAV.RVW  941201
 
"The Mosaic Navigator", Gilster, 1995, 0-471-11336-0, U$16.95
%A   Paul Gilster gilster@interpath.net
%C   5353 Dundas Street West, 4th Floor, Etobicoke, ON   M9B 6H8
%D   1995
%G   0-471-11336-0
%I   John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
%O   U$16.95 416-236-4433 fax: 416-236-4448
%P   243
%T   "The Mosaic Navigator"
 
HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the standard for the
construction and use of documents which link to other items on the net
through the use of URLs (Universal Resource Locators).  The World Wide
Web is the term which refers to the interconnected set of documents
which use HTTP.  (World Wide Web is often abbreviated to WWW, W3, or
just Web, although this latter causes confusion with a social issues
information network by the same name.)  Mosaic is an HTTP or W3 client
program, often referred to as a "browser".  In addition, the Mosaic
browser has a graphical interface, and can utilize "viewer" software
to display graphics, sound, and video in conjunction with HTTP
"pages".  There are other browsers, some, like WWW and lynx,
text-based.  Other graphical clients include Netscape, now being built
by one of the original Mosaic developers, and a proprietary part of
the new "Warp" version of OS/2.  Mosaic, itself, exists in multiple
freeware, shareware, and commercial versions, and can be obtained for
MS-Windows, the Macintosh, and X.
 
For those who have access to the Internet, but do not yet have Mosaic
or the necessary SLIP or PPP access, this book is an excellent guide
to getting set up.  Chapters three and four give quite detailed
instructions for obtaining, installing, and configuring the program.
This includes an explanation of the MOSAIC.INI file for Windows.
Other resources include Mosaic and W3-related newsgroups and mailing
lists.  Chapter six is also a solid guide to the use of Mosaic to
access ftp, telnet, Gopher, and Usenet news resources.
 
Gilster's "The Internet Navigator" (cf. BKINTNAV.RVW) and "Finding It
On the Internet" (cf. BKFNDINT.RVW) are both excellent works, and the
weaknesses of this one are shortcomings only in light of that
comparison.  The explanations of the World Wide Web, HTTP, and Mosaic,
while good, are not up to the previous standard.  The directions are
not quite as lucid, and sometimes seem to assume more knowledge on the
part of the reader.  Coverage of the actual operation of Mosaic could
be stronger: figures would have benefitted from the use of pointers to
items being selected, and the discussion of Mosaic menu items is
better in the O'Reilly & Associates' Mosaic handbooks (cf.
BKMOSAHX.RVW).  Also, while Gilster does discuss the fact that the
capabilities of HTTP, W3, and Mosaic may be misused for trivialities,
that point is not made strongly enough.  He mentions the frustration
involved with trying to use Mosaic with a slow modem, but not the
growing impact of massive graphic, video, and sound file transfers on
the bandwidth of the net as a whole.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994   BKMOSNAV.RVW  941201. Permission 
given
to distribute in TELECOM Digest and associated publications.


Vancouver      ROBERTS@decus.ca    
Institute for  Robert_Slade@sfu.ca 
Research into  rslade@cue.bc.ca    
User           p1@CyberStore.ca    
Security       Canada V7K 2G6      

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 12:08:10 CST
From: leslie_smith@wiltel.com
Subject: WilTel's New Telecom Atlas


Dear Telecom Digest,

 WilTel is excited to announce our New Telecom Atlas.  We would
love to know what you and your readers think about this new service
that WilTel now provides.  My name is Leslie Smith and if you would
like to talk with me about our New Telecom Atlas, I can be reached at
918-588-3645, or at Leslie_Smith@wiltel.com.


Thank you very much,

Leslie Smith    

   Your Ticket to the "World"
              <URL:http://www.wiltel.com/atlas/atlas.html>

 Have you ever wondered where in the World you could find
International Telecom Information at one location on the Internet?
Well, wonder no longer, because WilTel has laid the "World" at your
fingertips with our New Telecom Atlas.

 Whether you need to know about the South of France or South
Dakota, WilTel's New Telecom Atlas allows you to maneuver around the
"World" with ease.
 
 The Telecom Atlas provides sojourners overseas with a
clickable map of International Carriers and Telecom Research Centers.
If your trip is not as far from home, the Telecom Atlas also provides
clickable information on Interexchange Carrier Sites, Regional Bell
Operating Companies, Freenets, Research Testbeds, and Value Priced
Long Distance Providers to those of us in the U.S.

 The WilTel Telecom Atlas is part of WilTel's Telecom Library.
WilTel is devoted to ensuring that Telecommunication information is
readily available and easily comprehendable to the public.  If you
would like to learn more about Wiltel and our many services, we can be
reached at http://www.wiltel.com.

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From: dleibold@gvc.com (Dave Leibold)
Subject: ACC Reports Increase in Billable Minutes
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:26:51 -0500


[from a news release via CNW]

ACC TELENTERPRISES LTD. BILLABLE MINUTES UP OVER 25%

TORONTO, Jan. 24 /CNW/ - ACC Telenterprises Ltd. (`ACC') is pleased
to announce that their billable minutes for the fourth quarter 1994
are up more than 25% over the same period last year. Billable minutes
were reported at 127,245,250 compared to 101,555,897 billable minutes
in the fourth quarter of 1993.

Commenting on the strong growth, Mr. Steve Dubnik, President and Chief 
Executive Officer stated, "This increase in traffic is in line with 
our 
expected growth. It is exciting to confirm that our billable minutes 
are 
trending as planned."

The company's U.S. affiliate, ACC Long Distance Corp., has also
reported over 14% growth in billable minutes. Their billable minutes
in the fourth quarter were 144,519,771 compared to 126,109,656
billable minutes in the fourth quarter of 1993.

It's affiliate, ACC Long Distance UK Ltd., reports billable minutes in
the fourth quarter of 1994 were up 215% over the third quarter in
1994. The 11,048,441 minutes in the fourth quarter compares to
3,503,304 billable minutes reported in the previous quarter. The
billable minutes were 21,795 in the fourth quarter of 1993.

ACC TelEnterprises Ltd., together with its sister companies ACC Long
Distance Corp. in the United States and ACC Long Distance UK Ltd. is a
multinational provider of enhanced telecommunications services. The
Canadian company is headquartered in Toronto and provides worldwide
long distance voice and data services to business and residential
customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberts and British Columbia.
The company operates in 33 metropolitan centres and currently has an
annualized revenue run rate in excess of $100 million.

ACC TelEnterprises Ltd. is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and
the Montreal Stock Exchange under the symbol "ACL".

For further information: Barry K. Singer, Vice President, Legal and
Regulatory, ACC TelEnterprises Ltd., Etobicoke, Ontario, Tel: (416)
236-3636, Fax: (416) 236-4749.

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From: Nigel Allen <ndallen@io.org>
Subject: Canada and Chile Sign Telecom Research Agreement
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 20:19:31 EST
Organization: Allen Telecom Policy Consultants, Toronto, Ontario, 
Canada


Here is a press release from Industry Canada, the Industry department
of the Canadian federal government. Other Industry Canada press 
releases 
are available from the ftp/www/gopher site (debra.dgbt.doc.ca) 
operated 
by the department. I don't work for the government.


File name:01-26-95.b
Internet address: debra.dgbt.doc.ca
File path:  /pub/isc/Industry.Canada.News.Releases/1995
Date archived: Mon Jan 30 08:58:38 EST 1995
Archive name: Industry Canada, Canadian Federal Government
Archived by: tyson@debra.dgbt.doc.ca

Originator: <see document body>

Industry Canada

CANADA AND CHILE SIGN MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT ON COMMUNICATIONS 
DEVELOPMENT

     DAVOS, Switzerland, January 26, 1995 -- Industry Minister John
Manley today welcomed the signing of an agreement between Industry
Canada's Communications Research Centre (CRC) and the Chilean
government's Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications to establish
a framework for collaboration in telecommunications research and
development.

     The agreement was signed in Santiago, Chile, today by Trade
Minister Roy MacLaren during the trade mission led by Prime Minister
Jean Chretien.

     The agreement provides the Chilean Ministry of Transportation and
Communications with access to CRC's expertise in communications R&D
including spectrum management, remote telecommunications, networks and
broadcast technologies.

     "This agreement underlines the CRC's international reputation for
excellence in communications research," said Mr.  Manley. "The 
Centre's 
increasing participation in such international collaborations helps
bring Canadian technology and capabilities to world, and translates
into new opportunities for the growth of the telecommunications sector
in the National Capital Region and Canada."

     Under the agreement, CRC will provide technical consulting 
services 
on a cost-recovery basis, technology transfer, exchange programs and 
set 
up conferences and technical symposia. There is no monetary value 
attached 
to the agreement. Any CRC technologies transferred will be subject to
separate licensing agreements.

For additional information, please contact:

Kevin Shackell
CRC  (613) 998-0138
 
 - forwarded by Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada   ndallen@io.org

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From: dreuben@interpage.net (Doug Reuben)
Subject: NACN Problems with Cell One/Utah (Brianhead)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 07:10:41 EST


For the past five days, I've noticed that the system serving 
Brianhead, 
Utah (for once I am unsure of the SID! :) ), seems to be unable to 
deliver 
any sort of switch recordings.

When someone calls my 914-643 number, and my phone rings in Brianhead,
and goes unanswered, NOTHING happens! The ringing just stops, and the
line remains open, but callers do NOT get any message at all!

This is a particular problem as coverage is quite transient, and you
can easily find yourself in a dead spot where there is no coverage at
all. If you had been registered in the system 20 minutes prior to
hitting the dead spot, calls will be sent out to Utah, yet since you
are in a dead spot, the switch will not send any ringing tones back to
the caller, and all the caller hears is dead air, ad infinitum!

If the phone is inactive for more than 20 minutes, it usually resets
to the NY switch properly, but the fact that no recording is reported
when the phone is registered in Utah and either "off" or in a dead or
"no service" area is particularly confusing to callers who already
have enough difficulty waiting for the beeps, tones, clicks, and other
messages which they frequently must endure to reach my phone while
roaming. (Although NACN roaming is by far more seamless than most
B-side systems ... the B side in the Northeast laughable in most cases
with inane messages and hold times.)


Doug * Interpage Network Services/CID Tech * (203) 499-5221

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From: sfbatl@mindspring.com (Lambert Schuyler Jr.)
Subject: Needed: Network Solutions Manager
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 15:57:02 -0400
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.


NEEDED: Manager - Network Support Solutions (NSS) Consulting

The Company: Recognized internationally as a premier professional
services firm noted for its information systems integration, strategic
consulting, change management and process management consulting
services.  The company s Telecom Industry Consulting Group, is a
leader in providing consulting services to telecommunications
operating companies worldwide.

The Position: The group provides specialized systems integration and
process reengineering consulting services in the areas of network
operations support, material logistics, service delivery and service
assurance.  The Manager - Network Support Solutions (NSS) Consulting
position offers an outstanding career opportunity for a manager with
telecom carrier network operations support systems experience to join
this premier consulting firm.

Professional Requirements: Candidates for the position will have at
least three years of experience in the telecommunications industry.
Such exper ience will have included assignments with direct
responsibility for the p lanning and execution of network support
solutions information systems de velopment projects.  A candidate s
experience may have been gained while working with a telecom carrier
or firms that serve the telecom carrier industry such as
hardware/solutions vendors, systems integrators, strategic consultants
or information systems consultants.  A technical undergraduate degree
is expected.

Compensation/Location: The financial package for the position will
include an attractive salary and company provided fringe benefits.
Relocation may not be required.

If interested, please contact:

Gabrielle Griffith  (I am with an Executive Search firm)
E-Mail:  sfbatl@mindspring.com   Fax:  404-804-1917

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From: Hersh Jeff <hershj@bah.com>
Subject: Bell Atlantic ISDN, Part II
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 11:52:00 PST


In TELECOM Digest V15 #63 I wrote:

> My office (located in Eatontown, NJ, area code 908) recently had two 
ISDN
> lines installed for experimental purposes.  We receive our ISDN from 
a
> #5ESS.  It was obvious, despite what is written about Bell Atlantic 
in
> "Reengineering the Corporation," that it is very inexperienced and
> unorganized in providing ISDN service.  All we asked for was two 
ISDN
> BRI lines with NT-1s.  It took about two months before we were able 
to
> get the lines installed, and we have already had to replace the NT-
1s
> once.  Anyone else have experience with Bell Atlantic ISDN?



     There's another issue I neglected to mention in the original
submission: billing.  As I mentioned, the ISDN lines are used for
experimental purposes, for maybe five to seven hours per month.  Our
usage bills for the latest three billing cycles are as follows (at
$.05 per minute):

November 94: 3228 minutes (about 54 hours)
December 94: 3392 minutes (about 56 hours)
January 95: 3406 minutes (about 57 hours).

All time is charged for circuit switch data calls (BA's name).

In no case did we actually use that much access.  We have been trying
to get call detail from Bell Atlantic for the specific charges (mostly
dialed destination and time of day) to see if we can pinpoint the
trouble.  BA says it cannot provide that type of info, so that right
now we're at a standoff.  (I have trouble believing it can't do this.)
If anyone has any experience with how ISDN is billed and if similar
problems have been experienced, please let me know.  We know we didn't
use nearly this much time.  


TIA, 

Jeff Hersh hershj@bah.com

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From: Judith Oppenheimer <producer@pipeline.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 11:51:30 -0500
Subject: More on Universal International Freephone Numbers 


In reference to John Carl Brown's posting on January 24th:

Everything he says confirms what we have said.  

But it doesn't answer the question -- why are the carriers refusing to
support the U.S. users that did make their wishes known?

If it is such a participatory process, why are the U.S. carriers
ignoring the users who are participating?

I would be happy to provide *current and un-edited* documents - 
timeline, 
E.169, and more, to whomever emails their fax number to me.


Judith  Oppenheimer, Producer@Pipeline.com
Interactive CallBrand(TM)

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From: jpgs@gte.com (James Sterbenz)
Subject: Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN'95 -- Call for Participation
Date: 31 Jan 1995 13:51:26 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated


     GIGABIT NETWORKING WORKSHOP GBN'95 - Call for Participation
       2 April 1995 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking
      in conjunction with INFOCOM'95

PURPOSE AND FORMAT

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and
discussing very recent work in gigabit networking and publishing it in
a timely manner. The workshop will consist of short presentations and
discussions of current work in high bandwidth networking, as well as
longer discussion sessions. The workshop will take place from 8:30 AM
until 3:00 PM with lunch provided. There will be an open business
meeting of the Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking following the
workshop at 3:00 PM.

The workshop will consist of a number of short informal presentations
and discussion on current research and implementation, hot topics,
position statements, and controversial issues relating to high
bandwidth networking. End-to-end issues including transport and higher
layer protocols, host and network interface architecture, operating
systems, emerging applications, deployment and management of large
networks, economic and regulatory issues, security and privacy, and
other societal impacts will be of particular interest. A one-page
abstract of the presentation is due on 1 March 1995; all reasonable
proposals will be considered (and possibly some controversial ones).
The length of the presentations will be limited to 10 or 15 minutes
each, with the number of presentation foils strictly limited.

Presentations will appear in the online proceedings of the workshop,
under URL http://info.gte.com/ieee-tcgn/conference/gbn95 or by FTP
from ftp.gte.com/pub/ieee-tcgn/conference/gbn95/. Selected abstracts
of the presentations will appear in _IEEE Network Magazine_
(tentatively May 1995), and presenters may be invited to submit papers
to a special issue of the _Journal of High Speed Networks_ (JHSN).
There will blocks of time reserved for interactive discussion
sessions. Suggestions for topics will be taken in advance (email to
giga@tele.pitt.edu and Cc: to jpgs@ieee.org), but will also be welcome
at the workshop.  Controversial topics and outrageous viewpoints are
encouraged. A summary of the workshop discussions will appear in _IEEE
Network Magazine_.

SUBMISSION

The submission deadline for the one-page abstract is 1 March 1995.
Submission should be in plain text by email to the program chair at
jpgs@ieee.org; please include the text "GBN'95 Submission" in the
Subject: field. All submissions will be quickly acknowledged; the lack
of an acknowledgment indicates that the author should contact the
program chair to confirm the receipt of the proposal. Notification of
accepted presentations will be made by 10 March 1995, and all accepted
presenters are expected to register in advance for the workshop. At
the time of the workshop, an electronic version of the presentation
foils will be due for inclusion in the online proceedings. Submission
in postscript and/or HTML is encouraged; if these formats are not
possible, plain text will be accepted.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the workshop will be handled as part of INFOCOM'95
registration; information is available:
   on the WWW         
http://www.research.att.com/~hgs/infocom95/program.html
   by anonymous FTP   
gaia.cs.umass.edu/pub/hgschulz/infocom95/progam.txt
   email request to   infocom95@fokus.gmd.de

Additional copies of the GBN'95 CFP are available:
   on the WWW         http://info.gte.com/ieee-
tcgn/conference/gbn95/cfp.html
   by anonymous FTP   ftp.gte.com/pub/ieee-
tcgn/conference/gbn95/cfp.txt
   email request to   jpgs@ieee.org

The home page for the TCGN is URL http://info.gte.com/ieee-tcgn, and
has additional information.

PROGRAM CHAIR                                   PROGRAM COMMITTEE
James P. G. Sterbenz                           Nim Cheung, Bellcore
GTE Telecom. Research Laboratory           Dave Feldmeier, Bellcore
40 Sylvan Road MS-61,                         Bryan Lyles, Xerox PARC
Waltham, MA 02254 USA                          Ira Richer, MITRE
+1 617 466 2786                              Dick Skillen, Northern 
Telecom
jpgs@ieee.org                         Richard A. Thompson, Univ. of 
Pittsburgh
http://info.gte.com/jpgs                     Shukri Wakid, NIST


James P.G. Sterbenz        Senior MTS,  Broadband Intelligent Networks
jpgs@{acm|ieee}.org        GTE  Telecommunications Research Laboratory
+1 617 466 2786            40 Sylvan Road MS-61, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
http://info.gte.com/jpgs  

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From: ulmo@panix.com
Subject: Does AT&T 7506 TAD 03A Pass CID to RS232 of Orignating 
Caller?
Date: 31 Jan 1995 06:13:25 -0500
Organization: URL:http://www.armory.com/~ulmo/ (see rivers.html for 
PGP key)


An early reply would be appreciated ...

Today I'm ordering my AT&T 7506 TAD 03A and ISDN service with NYNEX.
Does this particular 7506 pass the CID of each caller to the RS232?  I
want to plug my computer in and have it look into my customer database
and pop up the record for the customer before I even know the phone is
ringing.

I'll program it.  I just want to know if the firmware allows it, and 
how.

Thanks.

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