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)

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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).

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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)

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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

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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

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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 

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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]

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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 <g>.

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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

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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.
         
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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?

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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 <telecom15.131.11@eecs.nwu.edu>, dehoog@st.rim.or.jp (John
DeHoog) wrote:

> In article <telecom15.109.9@eecs.nwu.edu>, 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

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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 <telecom15.128.20@eecs.nwu.edu>, 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

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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

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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

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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] 

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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]

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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 <telecom15.134.10@eecs.nwu.edu> 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

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