TELECOM Digest     Tue, 28 Feb 95 16:41:00 CST    Volume 15 : Issue 124

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    NII 2000 Call for White Papers (John Godfrey)
    Pizza Hut Consolidated Phone Number - All Locations (Dave Sellers)
    Palm Size Message Recorder on a Chip (TELECOM Digest Editor)
    Book Review: "Dvorak's Guide to Desktop Telecommunications" (Rob 
Slade)
    Overseas Bandwidth Optimizers (Jim Williams)
    Tender For Global ISDN Project (Marcel W.J. van.Ruijven)

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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 16:18:00 EST
From: John Godfrey <jgodfrey@nas.edu>
Subject: NII 2000 Call for White Papers


    [This document is also available through World Wide Web, at
  
http://ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov:70/0/iitf/appstech/techpolwg/tpwgcall.html
]

  COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS BOARD
  NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
  2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.  20418

  NII 2000 STEERING COMMITTEE

  Call for White Papers:  Private Investment and Federal NII
  Policy

  The NII 2000 Steering Committee -- a group of high-level executives
  and distinguished academicians -- seeks white papers from academia,
  businesses, foundations, industry, interest groups, trade associations 
and
  other interested parties on topics relevant to NII technology
  deployment.  The Committee is charged by the Technology Policy
  Working Group (TPWG) of the federal Information Infrastructure Task
  Force with a year-long course of activities to develop a baseline
  understanding regarding what technologies are to be deployed when,
  where, and by whom.  The project is being coordinated by the
  Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and is
  drawing upon inputs from multiple industries, sectors, organizations,
  and individual experts.  A list of NII 2000 Steering Committee
  members is attached.

  All white papers will be made available to federal NII decision
  makers and be considered for discussion at a Spring Forum in
  Washington, D.C., May 23-24, 1995.  White paper authors will have
  the opportunity to revise their papers after the Spring Forum.  All 
papers-
  regardless of whether they are selected for discussion at the
  Spring Forum-will be presented to the government and will
  contribute to the Steering Committee's final NII 2000 report to TPWG
  and the public.

  RESPONDING TO THE CALL:

  In keeping with its charge, the NII 2000 Steering Committee seeks
  properly documented discussions with quantitative evidence/analysis
  on technical, financial, and economic aspects of technology
  deployment issues and prospects for the next five to seven years.
  Issues of particular interest to the Committee include:

  Architecture and facilities:

    Bandwidth capacity available to and from:  government (all levels),
    corporations (domestic and international), small businesses and
residences;
    also mobile users of portable platforms;

    Interoperability and openness:  dimensions, barriers and
    facilitators;

    Interactivity and symmetry (i.e., relative support for two-way
    communication);

    Internetworking and interconnection regarding different kinds of 
networks
    and services;

    Public networks, private networks, virtual private networks.

  Enabling technologies (e.g., end-user devices, interfaces, and
  protocols);

  Recovery of carrier costs (facilities and/or services) in an open- 
network
  environment;

  Middleware technologies/capabilities:  e.g., mechanisms such as
  digital signatures, encryption or search agents that protect 
intellectual
  property, privacy, security; directory services.

  Applications:

    Expected capabilities for digital libraries, distributed
    collaboration, software agents, smart cards, telecommuting,
    video delivery (on-demand & near on-demand), multimedia services;

    Expected attributes and implementation of electronic
    kiosks/public access facilities;

    Technology deployment issues affecting a particular domain
    (e.g., education, finance, manufacturing, transportation) which may 
have
    implications for other domains (e.g., establishing standards in 
health
    care);

    Critical hardware and/or software interface features, requirements, 
and
    standards;

  Equitable access and public service obligations (relative costs and
  implementation rates);

  Research and development:  i.e., critical areas for future projects in
  device, software, and systems research; also private sector trends and
  priority areas for government-funded research;


  FORMAT REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY:

  Papers should begin with a brief problem statement and
  concentrate on analysis and forecast (five to seven year horizon)
  of deployment issues and key factors, including sources of 
uncertainty,
  contingencies, barriers and facilitators.  Conclusions should 
concisely
  state the business case for a given deployment effort and any 
implications
  for public policy.

  Submissions should be double-spaced and should not exceed
  6,250 words (approx. 25 pages).

  All papers must be signed by a principal and accompanied by a
  signed NRC copyright agreement.

  Statistics must be referenced; cites should be formatted as
  endnotes.

  Papers should be submitted in hard copy and electronic form
  (diskette or e-mail to jgodfrey@nas.edu) by April 27th.


  About the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board:

  Established by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916, the
  National Research Council (NRC) is the federal government's
  principal advisor on science and technology issues.  NRC conducts
  its work primarily by convening experts (serving pro bono) on a given
  issue.  Within the NRC, CSTB oversees technology and policy
  projects related to information infrastructure and similar topics.

  For more information, contact John Godfrey, CSTB, 202/334-2605
  or e-mail to jgodfrey@nas.edu

  
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**

  DETAILED CRITERIA AND FORMAT STATEMENT:

  White Paper Criteria and Format

  I.      Criteria

  A.      Substantive - To the degree relevant, each paper should:

  Distinctly frame a problem/issue related to NII technology
  deployment;

  Make a projection regarding that problem/issue over the
  next five to seven years;

  Provide a comprehensive baseline and status report of key developments
  related to that problem or issue;

  Assess the interaction between technical and non-technical
  (legal/regulatory, economic, social) factors;

  Identify contingencies and uncertainties related to
  investment and deployment of new technologies;

  Identify key applications, enabling technologies,
  capabilities;

  Identify classes of users to be served, noting: (a) which
  users may be served most easily or quickly; (b) which
  users are more difficult to serve (and why); and (c) market ramp-up
  expectations and determinants

  When using terms such as "interactive", "open", "scalable",
  provide a short definition or context for understanding
  how those terms are being used;

  Identify possible public, private, or public/private sector
  responses.

  B.      Technical:

  Submissions should be double-spaced;

  Submissions may be no longer than 6,250 words (approx.
  25 pages, double-spaced);

  All papers must be signed by a principal of the
  organization, group, or firm;

  All authors must sign a National Research Council
  copyright agreement;

  Statistics must be referenced; cites should be formatted as
  endnotes;

  Papers should be submitted in hard copy form, as well as
  on a diskette (ASCII or WordPerfect 5.1 format) or sent via e-mail to
  jgodfrey@nas.edu.

  C.      Dates:

  Abstracts due March 27;

  Forum version papers due April 27;

  Edited (final) version papers due June 30.


  II.     Format  (Page lengths are provided as guidelines only):

  A.   Statement of the Problem:

  Each paper should provide a one or two paragraph statement of
  the particular technology deployment issue.

  B.   Background (approximatly four or five pages):

  This section should provide a baseline understanding of
  the technology, service, industry, domain, or issue in question, and
  define terms.  A picture of the current "state-of-play" should emerge
  from the section.

  C.   Analysis and Forecast (approximatly twelve to fifteen pages):

  This third section is the heart of the paper and as such, should
  look at some of the broad factors (economic, legal/regulatory, social, 
  technical) influencing deployment decisions. In particular, authors 
  should (to the extent relevant): 

  (a) identify contingencies and uncertainties affecting investment 
decisions;
  (b) discuss factors used by the industry/domain in making the business 
case
      for a new technology; and 
  (c) make projections regarding the next five to seven years. This 
section 
      should also include a discussion of barriers to resolving any
outstanding
      problems/issues.

  D.  Recommendations (approximatly three or four pages):

  In this final section, authors should state whether and how the 
problem(s) 
  identified can best be addressed by the private sector, the public 
sector, 
  or by a cooperative effort between the two.

  E.  Additional Resources (optional):

  A listing of relevant documents, analyses, forecasts is welcome.  
Authors
  may attach these source materials as appendices.


  For more information, contact John Godfrey, CSTB, 202/334-2605
  or e-mail to jgodfrey@nas.edu

  
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  Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
  National Research Council

  NII 2000:  CALL FOR WHITE PAPERS

  RESPONSE FORM

  Complete and return to CSTB by March 22

  (Circle One:   Mr.    Ms.    Professor    Dr.)

  NAME

  TITLE

  AFFILIATION

  ADDRESS

  PHONE ____________FAX________________E-MAIL_____________


  What is the topic of your white paper?


  Return to:   Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
  Attn:  John Godfrey
  National Research Council
  2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room HA-560
  Washington, D.C.  20418
  FAX: (202) 334-2318

  
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**

  STEERING COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT FOR A
  NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE


  Dr. Lewis Branscomb, Chair
  Albert Pratt Public Service Professor
  J.F. Kennedy School of Government
  Harvard University

  Ms. Cynthia Braddon
  Vice President, Washington Affairs
  McGraw-Hill Incorporated

  Mr. James Chiddix
  Senior Vice President, Engineering
  and Technology
  Time Warner Cable

  Dr. David Clark
  Senior Research Scientist,
  Laboratory for Computer Science
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Mr. Joseph Flaherty
  Senior Vice President, Technology
  CBS Incorporated

  Dr. Paul Green, Jr.
  Manager, Advanced Optical
  Networking Laboratory
  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

  Mr. John Landry
  Senior Vice President, Development
  and Chief Technical Officer
  Lotus Development Corporation

  Mr. Richard Liebhaber
  Chief Strategy and Technology Officer
  MCI Communications

  Dr. Robert Lucky
  Vice President, Applied Research
  Bell Communications Research

  Dr. Lloyd N. Morrisett


  President
  John and Mary Markle Foundation

  Dr. Donald Simborg
  Chief Product Strategist
  Medicus Systems Corporation

  Mr. Leslie Vadasz
  Senior Vice President
  Intel Corporation


  Staff:
  Marjory S. Blumenthal
  Director, CSTB

  Louise A. Arnheim
  Sr. Program Officer

  John M. Godfrey
  Research Associate

  Gloria Bemah
  Admin. Assistant

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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 16:24:50 +0500
From: sellers@on.bell.ca (Dave Sellers)
Subject: Pizza Hunt Consolidated Phone Number - All Locations


The following news release was issued by Bell Ontario Public Affairs
to Ontario-based media on February 27, 1995.
 
Bell rings up 310-1010 to reach 83 Pizza Hut locations
 
TORONTO -- Eighty-three different pizza outlets from Cobourg to the
Niagara Peninsula have identical phone numbers. A telecommunications
nightmare, you say? A super telephone number, say Pizza Hut and Bell
Canada.
 
Throughout the 416 and 905 area codes, pizza-hungry customers can now
dial the same seven-digit phone number, 310-1010, to reach any of
Pizza Hut's restaurants, delivery and take-out stores. No need to look
in the phone book; no area code required.
 
Bell ServiceFinder (TM) service makes this new kind of seven-digit
phone number possible. It provides a business with a series of call
routing options that can be used alone or in combination to give
customized routing capabilities. The service allows the business to
advertise a single seven-digit local number and route incoming calls
to pre-determined locations based on one or more options.
 
"Whether you're at your home in St. Catharines, at a friend's place in
Brampton or visiting your cousin's apartment in North York, you just
dial 310-1010 to reach the local Pizza Hut for that area. The people
who answer your call will take your order and make your pizza. It's
that easy," says Doug Corbett, Pizza Hut's marketing manager.
 
The ServiceFinder database will use the postal code associated with
the calling number to identify which Pizza Hut location the call
should go to. When the customer dials 310-1010, the system
automatically routes the call to the nearest Pizza Hut.  "No other
food service company in Canada offers this level of convenience for
its customers," says Corbett. "Our goal now is to make 310-1010
available across the country so no matter what city our customers are
in, they dial the same number for a Pizza Hut pizza."
 
Both the customer and the business benefit from the ServiceFinder
service. "Besides making it easier for people to reach a business no
matter where they happen to be, this service means the business can
maintain a local look while getting greater value from its
advertising," says John Strecker, national account director with Bell.
 
In addition to the postal code option, call routing can be based on:
 
- the telephone numbers of special customers;
- the first three digits of the incoming call;
- time of day;
- day of the week;
- a percentage of calls that each location should receive.
 
Pizza Hut is the first Bell Canada customer to use the ServiceFinder
service and is part of a technical trial.  Bell Canada is awaiting
approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission before expanding Pizza Hut's single number to other area
codes and proceeding to market trials with other customers. That
approval may come by the end of March.
 
This is one of the first services to be offered on Bell's Advanced
Intelligent Network (AIN) platform. AIN is a set of software features
that work in conjunction with Bell's digital switches (DMS-100:
digital multiplex system of switching) equipped with CCS7 (Common
Channel Signaling #7) software.
 
CCS7, which activates Bell SmartTouch (TM) services, passes
information about the calling number between the DMS-100 switch and
the AIN software.
 
Pizza Hut's 310-1010 is also in use in Calgary, Alberta, and the
company intends to expand the number to the rest of the country as
soon as possible. Within the 416 and 905 area codes, all Pizza Hut
locations are now using the 310 number except those in Oakville,
Burlington and Milton which are expected to make the change this
spring. The downtown Toronto core (south of Carlton/College, between
Spadina Ave. and Bayview Ave.) is using 310-1010 and will have
delivery service for the first time by mid-March.
 
Pizza Hut, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc., is the world's largest pizza
distribution system with 478 restaurants and delivery units in Canada
and more than 10,750 outlets in 88 other countries. Pizza Hut is the
recognized leader of the $1.7 billion Canadian pizza category.
 
Bell Canada, the largest Canadian telecommunications operating
company, markets a full range of state-of-the-art products and
services to more than seven million business and residence customers
in Ontario and Quebec.
 
Bell Canada is a member of Stentor -- an alliance of Canada's major
telecommunications companies.
 
 
For more information:
 
Marilyn Koen                            Doug Corbett
Bell Canada Communications (Ontario)    Pizza Hut Canada
(416) 581-3258                          (905) 602-2752

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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 15:59:17 CST
From: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Digest Editor)
Subject: Palm Size Message Recorder on a Chip


I got an interesting advertisement a couple days ago I want to share
with you. I make no warranties or claims; I will just tell you what
they said. It cheap enough, you may want to order one or two.

"Message recorder records anything without tape".

This little thing fits in the palm of your hand and comes with a key
chain attachment. Two buttons on the front, one marked 'rec' and the
other marked 'play'.

Whenever you want to remember something later on, just take this thing
out of your pocket, press the record button and talk into it. It will
hold ten seconds of whatever it hears, but the deluxe version will
hold twenty seconds of talk. Later on when needed, you press the play
button and the ten/twenty seconds of speech comes over the tiny little
speaker attached. A new recording simply erases the old one. 

It looks to me like the sound quality won't be the greatest based on
the tiny combination speaker/microphone used, but it should work for
short memos.

Inside this thing is a tiny little ciruit board with a chip that holds
your speech. The person who showed me the one he got (and gave me the
ad for reference) has done something quite interesting; something which
may appeal to other Digest readers --

He opened the plastic case and took out the circuit board. Then he
tossed out the plastic case, not needing it any longer. He mounted the
litle circuit board in his telephone, and took the leads which had
been going to the little speaker and connected them to his telephone
handset instead. Two minature push button switches he mounted nicely 
on the side of his phone serves to cut the recorder in or out of the
circuit, in record or play mode. He records his message by talking
into the telephone. He uses it to give a standard answer phrase when
he picks up a ringing line. Of course, you could do whatever you
wanted with it.  He mounted the little circuit board in a spare place
inside the phone with a piece of double sided tape to hold it firm.

It operates on four 1.5 volt button size batteries that come with it
for free when you buy it. He thought about getting the six volts
needed from the phone line itself, but said the extra bother of
getting the voltage just right was not worth the hassle since the
batteries last a long time (hundreds of plays). 

Anyway, I thought you might be interested in trying one of these.
There is no kickback or commission to me, it just looked clever and
I think I shall order one also.

Item MR-10  the standard one is $9.95 plus 3.45 s/h  = $13.40
Item MR-20  the deluxe one is  $14.95 plus 3.45 s/h  = $18.40

Two of the MR-20 deluxe units for $24.75 plus 3.65 s/h = $28.40
Three of the MR-20 deluxe units for $34.95 plus $4 s/h = $38.95
                                             ($13 each)

They offer a money back guarentee for thirty days after purchase,
and say allow six weeks for reciept.

They take checks or money orders payable to HOLST, Inc. or you can
send them your Visa/MC/Amex number and expiration date with your
signature.

HOLST, Inc.
Department DM-2265
334 W. Wackerly Street
Post Office Box 1431
Midland, MI 48641-1431

No phone number was given. 

I can see where the twenty second version might have some interesting
applications for short outgoing phone messages if you can figure out
how to wire it in the phone line, which should not be too hard.


PAT

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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 10:57:59 EST
From: Rob Slade <roberts@mukluk.decus.ca>
Subject: Book Review: "Dvorak's Guide to Desktop Telecommunications"


BKDGTDTC.RVW   950125
 
"Dvorak's Guide to Desktop Telecommunications", Dvorak/Anis, 1990,
0-07-881668-
8, U$34.95
%A   John C. Dvorak
%A   Nick Anis
%C   300 Water Street, Whitby, Ontario   L1N 9B6
%D   1990
%G   0-07-881668-8
%I   McGraw-Hill/Ryerson/Osborne
%O   U$34.95 905-430-5000 fax: 905-430-5020
lkissing@osborne.mhs.compuserve.com
%T   "Dvorak's Guide to Desktop Telecommunications"
 
This book is *full* of surprises.
 
Given the number of people who recommended that I review it, I had
expected a more up-to-date work.  This *revised* (from "Dvorak's Guide
to PC Telecommunications") version is dated 1990.  Which means it's
dated.  Actually, even for *1990*, it's dated.
 
The "acknowledgements" reads like a telephone book.  A lot of people
put a lot of info into the book.  Unfortunately, a lot of them covered
the same ground.  Over and over.  Again.  From these original
submissions, the book does not seem to be edited as much as
concatenated.  The material does not seem to have been organized into
any kind of order, either.  Modem installation starts in chapter two,
but some of the information on COM ports waits for chapter
twenty-three.
 
The material is very uneven as to quality.  Chapter twenty-four has an
excellent section on what to look for in file transfer protocols.
Unfortunately, it is in the second half of the chapter.  The first
half has already delivered the usual hackneyed opinions about specific
protocols: errant ones, into the bargain.  The linking and
introductory material is sometimes painfully verbose, and pages go by
without solid information.  (The virus chapter?  Ahem.  Well, yes.  I
*do* have to say that, aside from the ridiculous definitions of
"bombs" and "worms", and Richard Levin's promoting of his own program,
it is not bad at all.)
 
As usual, the preface promises to help you get started with a modem.
It simply does not deliver.  The reader will, by the time the book is
finished, be familiar with terms and concepts, but not the practical
details of how to get it to work.  Well, some details, perhaps.  Much
time is spent describing how to put a "card" into the computer.
 
But there is no advice on how to diagnose errors with speed, parity or
word length (all fairly easy to recognize).  The chapters on
Macintosh, Amiga, UNIX and OS/2 are mere tokens.  There is much more
that is missing from this tome, as well.  (The *only* mention of the
Internet is as an email gateway between Compuserve and Usenet.)
 
There are some individual goodies buried in here, but, to be honest, I
can't think of any group to recommend it to, even considering some of
the other poor works on the market.


copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995   BKDGTDTC.RVW 950125. Distribution
permitted in TELECOM Digest and associated publications. Rob Slade's
book reviews are a regular feature in the Digest.


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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From: routers@halcyon.com
Subject: Overseas Bandwidth Optimizers
Date: 28 Feb 1995 00:43:37 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.


The series 5000 LAN/WAN Optimizer is an advanced data compression
device which increases the throughput of a bridge, router, front end
processor or channel extender.  It uses an advance hardware pipeline
and multiprocessor architecture to minimize compression/decompression
latency and maximize throughput.  The Optimizer can either be inserted
between the router and the DSU/CSU, or can be installed with an integral 
T-1/FT1 DSU/CSU.  Wan links speeds supported: 9,600 through 2.048Mbps.  
Average 2:1 through 4:1 compression at all line rates.

The 5101 model is a single DTE channel device.  The 5201 model offers
statistical multplexing of two channels to allow multiple independent
data streams to be efficiently transported across the WAN.


For more information  please contact:

Jim Williams   ROUTER SOLUTIONS
Tel  +800-837-4180  Fax +206-222-7622
E-mail  routers@halcyon.com
FTP.halcyon.com /pub/local/routers       

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From: Marcel.W.J.van.Ruijven@news.xs4all.nl
Subject: Tender For Global ISDN Project
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 12:22:33 PST
Organization: PTT Telecom Netherlands


 From November 28-30, 1995 the ISDN event of the year will take place:

Global 1995. It will be a world-wide event with show cases in
different countries linked together via ISDN.  Already 35 sponsors in
Europe, Asia, Africa and America support the initative and now seek
global support for a professional organisation. Three tenders are made
available by the Global '95 steering committee:

-       For administration
-       For promotion and communication
-       for project management

For more information please ask for details via:

Fax     :       +31 70 3816581 (Attn. Mr. A. Naftali) 
Internet:       m.w.j.vanruijven@telecom.ptt.nl

Requests for information should be in before March 7, 1995.  Proposals
should be in no later than March 10, 1995.


Marcel W.J. van Ruijven      PTT Telecom BV                     
E-mail:M.W.J.vanRuijven@telecom.ptt.nl
P.O. Box 30150      not NL-2500 GD The Hague        

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