TELECOM Digest     Wed, 11 May 94 12:15:00 CDT    Volume 14 : Issue 209

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Questionnaire for Telecommunications Directory (Nigel Allen)
    First CAP All Fiber-Optic Transatlantic Videoconfernce (FCC via Bob
Keller)
    Electronic FCC Fees Payment Workshop - May 18 (FCC via Bob Keller)
    Hackers On Planet Earth -Update- (Kevin Crow)
    European Real-Time Seminar 1994 (Alf Oennestam)
    Bellcore to Assign NPA 500 Codes (Communications Daily via Gregory Monti)
    Conference: Using ISDN to Work through the Next Earthquake (Bob Larribeau)
    Wanted: X25 Package For SCO UNIX (Michael A. Leo)

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Date: Wed, 11 May 94 11:25 WET
Subject: Questionnaire for Telecommunications Directory
From: ndallen@io.org (Nigel Allen)
Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151  Voice: 416-363-8676


[Note from NDA: Here is the text of a questionnaire that I thought
would be of interest to readers of this newsgroupu.]

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR FREE LISTING

TELECOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORY

An International Descriptive Guide to Telecommunications Companies,
Services, systems, and Related Organizations in the Field

If you would like your telecommunications service considered for
listing free of charge in the Telecommunications Directory published
by Gale Research Inc. and your system or service is described by one
or more of the categories listed below, please complete this
questionnaire and return it by May 31 to:

  Telecommunications Directory
  Gale Research Inc.
  835 Penobscot Building
  Detroit, MI 48226-4094    U.S.A.
  Telephone (313) 961-2242 ext. 1551
  or 800-347-GALE, ext. 1551 in Canada and the U.S.
  Fax (313) 961-6815

  If you are already listed, please ignore this questionnaire.

Please enclose any literature or other information that might help the
editors put together a more complete listing for your organization or
service.

If your organization has multiple services that should be described in
separate listings, please complete a separate questionnaire for each.

1. Company/organization name and address:

2. Unit (particular system/service/unit under discussion):
   Address:

3. Telephone:
   Toll-free phone (if any):
   Fax:
   Electronic mail address (give system name and
   your code or address):
   Telex:
   Year organization founded:
   Year system/service established:

4. Head of unit listed in item 2 (name, position, unit):

5. Public/business contact for additional information
   (name, position, unit):

6. Related organizations (other sponsoring, affiliated, or supporting
organizations - please specify relationship [i.e., wholly owned subsidiary,
etc.] and indicate city/state/country location):

7. Staff of unit listed in item 2 (indicate number in each category):
  Total:
  Management:
  Technical:
  Sales and Marketing:
  Clerical:
  Other:

8. Service Types (Please check those boxes that describe your type of
organizaton, system, or service. For example, a telephone resale
carrier would designate "Long Distance Telephone Service".
An organization that provides consulting and educational services would
designate "Consultant" and "Conference/Seminar/Training Provider".
Item 9, General Description, will ask you to briefly amplify the
indicators checked here.)

Systems or Services
[ ] Data Communications Service
[ ] Long Distance Telephonme Service
    [ ] Intrastate  [ ] Interstate  [ ] International
[ ] Cellular Radio Service
[ ] Local Area Network Supplier
[ ] Teleconferencing
    [ ] Audio Only Service
    [ ] Audio/Video Service
    [ ] Equipment Supplier
[ ] Audiotex Service
[ ] Videotex/Teletext Service
[ ] Videotex/Teletext Equipment or Software
[ ] Electronic Mail
    [ ] Service     [ ] Equipment/Software
[ ] Voice Store & Forward
    [ ] Service      [ ] Equipment/Software
[ ] Satellite/Microwave Networking Service
    (i.e. uplinks, downlinks, transponder leasing, etc.)
[ ] Shared Tenant Service
[ ] Facsimile Service (includes fax-0n-demand, broadcast fax,
    or enhanced fax)
[ ] Telegram Service
[ ] Teletex Service
[ ] Telex Service
[ ] Transactional Service (electronic fund transfer, home banking,
    reservations systems, interactive shopping, etc.)
[ ] Two-way Cable Television

Other Organizations
[ ] Consulting
[ ] Legal Service
[ ] Financial Service/Insurance Service
[ ] Conference/Seminar/Training Provider
[ ] Association
[ ] Publisher/Information Service
[ ] Government/Regulatory/Standards Body
[ ] Research
[ ] Other (please specify):

9. General description of unit listed in item 2:

10. Specific user applications of system/service (what is system/
service used for?):

11. Geographic areas served (cities, countries, or general geographic
regions served):

12. Rate structure (please indicate general rates, fees, or other
charges, including start-up costs if applicable):

13. Clientele/availability (primary types of clients; any restrictions
or limitations)

14. Means of access (how is the system/service accessed? what
equipment is required?)

15. Equipment supplied as part of system/service

16. Publications  (periodicals, books, documentation/user aids;
please indicate title, price, frequency, and where available from);

17. Other communications services (if possible, please send
additional literature on these services for possible inclusion
in the Directory):

18. Planned new services (indicate starting date; please enclose
additional information if available):

19. Key Features Summary (please recap the main advantages and
feastures of your system or service):

20. Questionnaire completed by:
    Name:
    Title:
    Date:
    Telephone:
    Fax:

21. [ ] Descriptive material enclosed
    [ ] Descriptive material sent under separate cover

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Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 11:38:16 EDT
From: Bob Keller <rjk@telcomlaw.com>
Subject: First CAP All Fiber-Optic Transatlantic Videoconfernce


                                                  May 11, 1994


          CHAIRMAN HUNDT WILL TAKE PART IN FIRST ALL FIBER-OPTIC
              TRANSATLANTIC VIDEOCONFERENCE USING COMPETITIVE
               ACCESS CONNECTIONS WITH SIR BRYAN CARSBERG, 
             DIRECTOR GENERAL OF FAIR TRADING, UNITED KINGDOM

      Chairman Hundt will make the first all fiber-optic transatlantic
call using competitive access connections by having a videoconference
between the FCC and UK at 8:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 25, in Room 856 at
the FCC headquarters building, 1919 M St., NW.

      MFS Communications Co. is providing the technical demonstration
using solely competitive networks between the Chairman and Sir Bryan
Carsberg, the United Kingdom's Director General of Fair Trading.

      Both officials plan to discuss informally the value of
competition and the benefits of bringing competition to users during
the videoconference.

      The press is invited to attend.

News Media contact:  Stephen Svab at (202) 632-5050. 

                              -FCC-


Bob Keller               Robert J. Keller, P.C.          Tel +1 301.229.5208
A.R.S. KY3R          Federal Telecommunications Law      Fax +1 301.229.6875
rjk@telcomlaw.com   (Finger me for FCC Daily Digest)   CompuServe 76100,3333

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Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 11:41:17 EDT
From: Bob Keller <rjk@telcomlaw.com>
Subject: Electronic FCC Fees Payment Workshop - May 18


                                                  May 11, 1994

                     FEES ELECTRONIC PAYMENT WORKSHOP
                          WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1994
                            9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

The Public Service Division will sponsor a Fees Electronic Payment
Workshop on Wednesday, May 18, 1994 from 9:00 AM until 12:00 PM at the
FCC, Room 856, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, DC.  This workshop is
designed for those firms interested in paying processing and/or
regulatory fees electronically.

Currently, it is proposed that those who pay their fees electronically
will file the accompanying paperwork with the Office of the Secretary,
Room 222, 1919 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20554 or Route 116,
Gettysburg, PA 17326, depending on the particular filing. THIS NEW
PROPOSED RULE PERTAINS TO ELECTRONIC PAYERS ONLY.

Two types of electronic payment that will be discussed at the workshop are:

    1)'CTX' type payments where money is transferred from the payer's 
    bank directly to Mellon Bank, our lockbox bank via mainframe computer.
    'CTX' type payments have been widely used by larger corporations to pay 
    their accounts.  Use of the 'CTX' payment system is designed for those
    companies already using electronic computer transfer. 

    2) The Customer Initiated Payments (CIP) Program where the payers
    authorize our lockbox bank to debit their bank account.  This is a 
    personal computer or touch-tone telephone based system designed for 
    companies not currently involved in electronic data transfer. 

The majority of the workshop will be devoted to the CIP Program
because it fits the needs of most of FCC's clients.  The CIP Program
is a convenient, safe, and reliable way for your organization to pay
its processing and regulatory fees.  FCC CIP has been developed
especially for FCC fee payments in conjunction with Mellon Bank.

Please join us for a discussion and demonstration of this new and
exciting innovation at the FCC.  Staff from Mellon Bank and the FCC
will be there to answer your questions.  Please contact Kara Casey or
Michelle Mitchell at 202/632-0244 if you are interested in attending.

                              -FCC-


Bob Keller               Robert J. Keller, P.C.          Tel +1 301.229.5208
A.R.S. KY3R          Federal Telecommunications Law      Fax +1 301.229.6875
rjk@telcomlaw.com   (Finger me for FCC Daily Digest)   CompuServe 76100,3333

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From: kc@netsys.com (Kevin Crow)
Subject: Hackers On Planet Earth -Update-
Organization: Netsys Inc.
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 06:54:05 GMT


Hackers On Planet Earth

The First U.S. Hacker Congress

Come together in the summer of 1994 to celebrate the hacker world and
the tenth anniversary of 2600 Magazine. We will have speakers and
demonstrations from around the globe, a collection of films and rare
videos on hacking, and our very own network between all of us and the
outside world!

This is an opportunity to feel the real magic of hacking instead of
hearing about how we're about to destroy the world in some cheap
tabloid or on the news during sweeps week. Government propaganda and
corporate doublespeak have finally met their match!

If you want to help put together this historic event, contact us by
telephone at (516) 751-2600, through the mail at H.O.P.E., PO Box 848,
Middle Island, NY 11953, on the Internet at 2600@well.sf.ca.us.  We
need ideas, people, technology, and karma.

H.O.P.E. - August 13th and 14th at the Hotel Pennsylvania, right in
the middle of bustling New York City (Seventh Avenue and 34th Street,
right across the street from Penn Station). We've rented out the
entire top floor (except for the mysterious NYNEX office).  Special
rates of $99 a night are available from the hotel (double rooms, four
can probably fit easily). Cheaper places are also available as is
nearly anything else. This is New York City, after all.

Admission to the conference is $20 for the entire weekend if you
preregister, $25 at the door, regardless of whether you stay for two
days or five minutes. We encourage you to bring a computer so you can
tie into our giant Ethernet and add to the fun. We hope you try to
hack root on the system we'll be running -- all attendees will get
accounts with prizes for the penetrators.

Dancing and merchandising in the halls;

Cellular phone workshop;

Celebration of the Clipper Chip (not);

Hacker videos from all over the world;

Surveillance demos;

Hacker legends from around the globe;

It's not Woodstock - It's The Future;

Many more details are on the way.

Information sources:

2600 Magazine
The Hacker Quarterly
Summer 1994 edition

Off The Hook
Wednesdays, 10:00 pm
WBAI 99.5 FM
New York City

2600 Voice BBS
516-473-2626

alt.2600
on the Internet

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From: alf@enea.se (Alf Oennestam)
Subject: European Real-Time Seminar 1994
Organization: Enea Data AB
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 10:08:24 GMT


ENEA DATA AB and TELELOGIC AB are pleased to invite you to the seminar:

**********  Designing communication systems for future demands  *********

This seminar will give you an overwiew of the possibilities our tools
can offer you in real-time design, to preserve your investment for the
future.

TELELOGIC AB   The product SDT, which is an SDL Design Tool for development
               and ITEX used for test specification of real-time systems.

ENEA DATA AB   which is OSE real-time operating system products, including
               OSE delta, designed for distributed and fault-tolerant
               applications.

Seminars will be held at foolowing places:

Sweden           Stockholm                May    24
Norway           Oslo                     May    26
Finland          Helsinki                 May    27
Italy            Milan                    May    30
France           Toulouse                 May    31
                 Aix de Provence          June    1
                 Rennes                   June    2
                 Paris                    June    3
Austria          Vienna                   June    6 
Switzerland      Zurich                   June    7
Germany          Stuttgart                June    8
                 Munich                   June    9
                 Frankfurt                June   10
England          London                   June   21


All seminars are free of charge.

Please request further information by email from:

alf@enea.se

or from:

ENEA DATA AB     Phone +46 8 638 50 00   Fax +46 8 538 50 50 
Box 232   S-183 23 TABY   SWEDEN

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Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 07:03:39 EDT
From: Gregory P. Monti <gmonti@cap.gwu.edu>
Subject: Bellcore to Assign NPA 500 codes


A story in the May 11 issue of {Communications Daily} notes that the
FCC has given Bellcore permision to assign NXX codes within new NPA
500.  500 is the special access code that will be used for
non-geographically-based services, mainly wireless ones like beepers,
personal communications services (PCS) and cellular phones.  The idea
is to avoid separate roamer port numbers and roaming charges.

Bellcore had been asked to delay any work on the 500 front until
fairness issues were worked out.  Now that an Industry Carriers
Compatibility Forum has reached consensus on assignment guidelines,
the Commission felt it was time to release Bellcore from their 'hold'.

The FCC cautioned that it does not want to see numbers assigned
"frivolously, hoarded by assignees or prematurely exhausted."  Number
portability among carriers is not required by the order but it is
assumed that numbers within NPA 500 will eventually become portable.

Bellcore will need to negotiate with (and adjudicate conflicts among)
the 126 carriers who have requested 437 of the possible 792 NXX codes
within the 500 NPA.  Bellcore would probably start assignments within
a few months.


Greg Monti          Arlington, Virginia, USA        gmonti@cap.gwu.edu

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From: blarrib@netcom.com (Bob Larribeau)
Subject: Conference: Using ISDN to Work Through the Next Earthquake
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 21:22:27 GMT


Using ISDN to Work through the Next Earthquake
The California ISDN Users' Group Conference
June 7 & 8, Sheraton Newport Beach

The California ISDN Users' Group is holding a conference on how ISDN
and other new communications technologies can be used to keep people
working after a major disaster.  The conference will include
presentations and demonstrations of disaster backup, internetworking
and network access, voice, video, and groupware technologies using
ISDN.

To attend fill out the form below and send a check for $80 ($50
without lunches) to:

California ISDN Users' Group
P.O. Box 27901-774
San Francisco, CA 94127

Name_____________________________________________________________________

Company__________________________________________________________________

Address__________________________________________________________________

City/State/Zip___________________________________________________________

Telephone/email__________________________________________________________

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Send any questions to Bob Larribeau at "blarrib@netcom.com".

Plenary
Tuesday 8:30 - 10:00

Stan Kluz - Chairman
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Welcome and CIUG activities.

Keynote - Byron Wagner
World-class technology consultant describes his experience using ISDN
to solve problems for global organizations like the Walt Disney
Company, Apple Computer, Ricoh, and 20th Century Fox. Here's your
opportunity to see how media-savvy companies are reinventing
themselves with technology and get a high altitude view of the
implosion of media and communications.

Bob Larribeau - Program Chairman
Conference program.

Data Networking Track
ISDN Data Networking Overview
Tuesday 10:30 - 12:00

Bob Larribeau - Consultant
Overview of using ISDN for backing up and accessing remote networks.

Anita Freeman & Jack Robertson - Pacific Bell
Experiences with ISDN after the Northridge earthquake.

Ruth Winkler - Pacific Bell
Switched 56 service and its relationship to ISDN

Wayne McCallum - GTE
How GTE's ISDN implementation enhances remote network applications.

ISDN Backup for Data Networks
Tuesday 1:30 - 3:00

Heather Vaughn - Racal Data Communications
Gene Litt - Controlware
Two suppliers discuss ISDN as an ideal technology for keeping networks
up during a disaster at minimum cost.

Larry Cynar - Pacific Bell
Pacific Bell customizes private data networks to increase disaster resistance.

Bill Bloom - Dunsnet
How Dunsnet uses ISDN to keep their network in operation.

Data Connectivity
Tuesday 3:00 - 5:00

Leslie Conway - Adtran
ISDN connectivity for a broad range of high speed data communications
applications.

Bruce Dillon - IBM
Board for the PC that not only supports ISDN, but also can be used as
a data or fax modem.

Richard Brennan - AT&T
Using ISDN to support both voice, video and data in the home.


ISDN Remote Network Access
Wednesday 8:30 - 10:30

Tom Williams - Combinet
Gene Chang - Extension Technology
Greg Larson - Digiboard

Three suppliers of ISDN equipment that provide high performance remote
access to LANs

Scott Yeager - MFS Datanet
User of ISDN for dialup access to an ATM network.

Data Networking Solutions
Wednesday 10:30 - 12:00

Pete Moulds - Ascend Communications
Danny Young - Intel
Jim Hietala - Network Express
Jerome Calgo - Transtream
Four suppliers of ISDN equipment that interconnects LANs or provides
remote access to LANs.

Terry Tompkins - Motorola
An ISDN user's experience with hardware and software options for
accessing LANs from home.

Data Networking User Experience
Wednesday 1:30 - 3:00

Bill Brasuell - Tandem
Experiences at the early stages of extending a large modem based work at home 
program to ISDN.

Ed Tynan - Motorola
Inexpensive security measures that significantly reduce the security
risks of dialup LAN access.

Natalie Clinton - LLNL
Lawrence Livermore Labs experiences in implementing a large ISDN based
work at home program.

Pat Krause - McDonald's
The first ISDN user in the U.S. will say how and why he are uses ISDN
to support work at home and LAN interconnection.

Voice/Video/Groupware Track
ISDN Centrex Voice Services
Tuesday 10:30 - 12:00

Ella Spradley - Pacific Bell
J. Griffin - GTE 
How ISDN Centrex offerings can assure continued communications after a
disaster.

ISDN Centrex Voice Applications
Tuesday 1:30 - 3:00

Joe Saaveda - Telrad
T. Gartman - Lodestar

Two suppliers of ISDN telephones will describe how ISDN supports low
cost, flexible phone services.

J. Pokress - Teloquent
Will describe how ISDN can be used to support distributed, work at
home customer service.

ISDN Groupware
Tuesday 3:30 - 5:00

Gary Gysin - Crosswise
Curtis Albrecht - Eye Tel
Two suppliers of groupware software applications will discuss enhancing 
communications after a disaster.


ISDN Video
Wednesday 8:30 - 10:00

Richard Grace - British Telecom

New cost effective video solutions for up new applications at lower
cost and with rapid deployment.

Carl Kikerpill - Compression Labs
ISDN providing flexible video conferencing that supports face to face
communication after a disaster.

Jeffrey Starr - McGaw, Inc.
Experience using video conferencing over ISDN.


ISDN Video
Wednesday 10:30 - 12:00

Intel - name not available at press time
PC based video solutions using ISDN.

Pat Krause - McDonald's
User evaluation of ISDN video systems.

Special Session
Alternative Technologies
Wednesday 1:30 - 3:00

Pushpendra Mohta - CERFNet
The role of the Internet in work at home and disaster recovery.

Keith Nesson - Pacific Bell
Applications using Fast Packet Services (SMDS, Frame Relay, ATM) to provide 
distributed, fault-tolerant corporate networks.

Demonstrations

ISDN products and applications will be demonstrated by 17 different
companies on both Tuesday and Wednesday.

Adtran     Extension Technology
Ascend Communications   IBM
AT&T     Intel
British Telecom    Lodestar Technologies
Combinet     Network Express
Compression Labs    Northern Telecom
Controlware    Pacific Bell
Crosswise    Transtream
Digiboard   

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From: mal@adc.com (Michael A Leo)
Subject: Wanted: X25 Package For SCO UNIX
Date: 11 May 1994 16:51:16 GMT
Organization: ADC Telecommunications


Hi,

  I am looking for an x25 communications package for use with SCO
UNIX.  We are porting our product to the SCO environment from the Sun
environment.  I am most familiar with SunConnect's SunLink X.25
product.

  If anyone knows of a solution, please let me know.


Thank you,

Michael Leo                       
ADC Telecommunications            
(612) 936-8305 (voice)            
mike_leo@adc.com                  

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