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TELECOM Digest     Tue, 31 Jan 95 19:46:00 CST    Volume 15 : Issue 69

Inside This Issue:                          Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    GEnie Services Offers Free Japan Access Until Further Notice
(Finkenstadt)
    Job Posting: Aspect Telecom, CTI Product Marketing Manager (James
McDonald)
    FAQ'S re: Connectivity Options ([e-mail])
    Federal Judge Rules Against FCC - Historical Precedent (Bill Sohl)
    Clock Slips Again (Martin McCormick)
    Emergency Cellular Phone (Testmark Laboratories)
    Ericsson GH337/EH237 Cellular Modem I/F (Alfredo E. Cotroneo)
    Metro Mobile (CT/RI/MA) Added to the NACN (Doug Reuben)
    Product to Prevent PBX Phone Fraud (Paul Murray)
    Electro 95 Electronics Conference, June 21-23, Boston (Paul R.
Baudisch)

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:04:16 -0500
From: Andy Finkenstadt <[e-mail]>
Subject: GEnie Services Offers Free Japan Access Until Further Notice


January 23, 1995 -- GEnie Services is offering free access to its
online service to all current and new GEnie members in Japan to assist
in restoring the lives of Kobe and Osaka earthquake victims and
establish a communications vehicle both in Japan and around the world.

Effective immediately and until further notice, GEnie will waive all
usage fees as well as the standard connect fee for all GEnie users in
Japan.

"The tragedy in Japan has struck all of us.  Although too small a
token of our desire to help, we hope that free access to the worldwide
interconnectivity of the GEnie network and specifically our Japanese
roundtable will help concerned citizens around the world keep in
contact with affected locals", said Mark Walsh President of GEnie
Services.  "We hope that life soon returns to normal and wish only
that we can help the process."

The Japanese roundtable is an online meeting place for users with an
interest in Japanese affairs.  The forum is accessible to GEnie users
around the world.

GEnie Services, which became operational in 1985, is one of the
leading online information services with subscribers around the world.
GEnie had been available in Japan since December 1988.  GEnie Services
is a part of GE Information Service, Inc., which is headquartered in
Rockville, Maryland.

For more information about GEnie, send electronic mail to
[e-mail], visit the GEnie gopher (gopher to gopher.GEnie.com),
the GEnie web (use an URL of "http://www.GEnie.com").


[e-mail]   Andy Finkenstadt, GEnie Sysop, GEnie Postmaster
[e-mail]  personal account: [e-mail]
Andrew Finkenstadt    [e-mail]    Gaithersburg, MD
301-975-9890

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From: [e-mail] (James McDonald)
Subject: Job Posting: Aspect Telecom, CTI Product Marketing Manager
Date: 31 Jan 1995 23:45:09 GMT
Organization: Aspect Telecommunications, Inc.
Reply-To: [e-mail]


Aspect Telecommunications, the market leader in stand-alone Automated
Call Distribution systems, is announcing the following position:

Product Marketing Manager, Computer-Telephony Integration, San Jose,
CA

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION  (Include special duties and
responsibilities)

This senior level Product Marketing Manager will:

Perform a catalyst role for Aspect's long-term computer-telephony
product strategy and direction.  Define market forces, opportunity,
and metrics, and paint a long-term CTI product vision for Aspect with
ROI analysis and business case justification. Define business
expansion and market development strategies for Aspect's CTI product
line. Develop marketing requirements for CTI products within the
framework of the long-term product vision, and define a roll-out plan
for delivering the individual products to market. Develop product
positioning, packaging and pricing strategies, and champion the
product launch process for CTI products.

QUALIFICATIONS (Include technical skills, education and experience):

BA/BS; MS/MBA a plus. This person must possess strong technical and
business analysis skills in order to quickly assess and remain abreast
of the state of the CTI industry. This includes synthesis of any
promising new technologies, new applications of technology, standards
activities, changes in buyer behavior and expectations, strategic
vendor positioning or moves, etc. They must also must possess
excellent interpersonal skills to quickly gather and distill
information, to build relationships with strategic vendors outside of
Aspect and with many key people within Aspect, and to evangelize and
champion their CTI-related ideas within Aspect.

(Minimum requirements.)
Seven or more years experience in one or more of the following areas:
product marketing, product management, strategic planning, business
development, systems integration, and/or international marketing for
advanced telecom or data products.

(Preferred qualifications.)
Knowledge and experience with CTI products and with systems
integration
in multi-vendor environments.

Please send resume to:

Phyllis Ball
Aspect Telecommunications, Inc.
1730 Fox Dr.
San Jose, CA 95131

or by E-mail in ASCII or Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0 format
(uuencoded) to:

[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: FAQ'S re: Connectivity Options
Date: 31 Jan 1995 02:00:45 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.


This posting may be freely distributed to Internet and commercial
online sites.

Keywords: UTP distance standards, campus networks connectivity,
          ethernet, wireless, LAN, microwave, repeaters, video


1.  QUESTION:   What is the maximum bandwidth that 4-wire copper
                UTP can handle in campus environments?
    ANSWER:     ---E-1 up to 2.5 miles (4 km)

2.  QUESTION:   What is the longest distance that 4-wire copper
                UTP can transmit at T-1 band width?
    ANSWER:     ---5 miles (8 km), up to 7 miles (11.2 km) with
                   a repeater

3.  QUESTION:   Can you transmit data, voice, and video across
                4-wire UTP at the same time without cross-talk?
    ANSWER:     ---Yes

4.  QUESTION:   What is the maximum distance that ethernet at
                10 Mbps can be extended?
    ANSWER:     ---1500 ft (495 m), up to 3000 ft (990 m) with
                   repeater

5.  QUESTION:   Is there a wireless solution that would allow a
                campus to connect all buildings together, and
                allow any PC or laptop computer on campus to
                communicate, even if they move about the campus?
    ANSWER:     ---Yes.  One solution allows building -to-
                   building connections up to 6 miles (9.6 km),
                   and allows any PC or laptop to be on
                   line.  It operates at 2 Mbps, has SNMP, and
                   requires no FCC licence.

6.  QUESTION:   Are there any wireless solutions at 10 Mbps for
                LAN-to-LAN connections?
    ANSWER:     ---Yes.  A microwave solution allows LANs to
                   connect up to 5 miles (8 km).  This same
                   system has options that will allow voice,
                   data, and video at the same time, in either
                   4 -T1 slots, or 8 -T1 slots.  The 8 -T1
                   version can handle 192 voice-grade circuits.

For further information and product data sheets, please contact Router
Solutions ([e-mail]), or check our FTP site:
ftp.halcyon.com /pub/local/routers

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From: [e-mail] (Bill Sohl  Budd Lake)
Subject: Federal Judge Rules Against FCC - Historical Precedent
Date: 31 Jan 1995 17:33:27 GMT
Organization: Planet Access Networks - Stanhope, NJ


I offer the following to the telecom newsgroup as it indirectly
relates to an entire series of postings related to the allegation that
operation/use of radio receivers/scanners that have been modified is
illegal.  From the post below relating to the problems the FCC is
having just enforcing its laws/regulations against actual pirate
broadcasting, is there anyone that can even perceive the FCC has any
resources to worry about the thousands of people using and/or
modifying radio scanners to receive cellular telephone broadcasts?  I
think not.

As before, don't kill the messenger.  I point this out to illustrate
the practical side of life and the law as opposed to those that
suggested illegal activity was going on by modifying radios.  Bottom
line is ... no one cares, least of all the FCC.

Begin post from misc.legal.moderated newsgroup
In another newsgroup, Stephen Dunifer ([e-mail]) wrote:

Victory for Micro Power Broadcasting - Historical Defeat for the FCC
 On Friday, January 20 Federal judge Claudia Wilken refused to
grant the Federal Communications Commission a preliminary injunction
to
stop the micro power broadcasts of Stephen Dunifer and Free Radio
Berkeley.  Stating serious constitutional concerns as her reason,
Judge
Wilken denied the request, ordered the FCC to exhaust administrative
remedies and to rule on Dunifer's appeal of their $20,000 fine before
seeking any further court action.  This ruling sets a historical
precedent: it is the first time the FCC has been denied an injunction
to
stop the broadcasts of an unlicensed radio station.  The Commission
will
have to address the issue of the constitutionality of their
regulations
when ruling on Dunifer's appeal.  Any further court proceedings are
delayed until the FCC acts on the appeal which has languished in
Washington for more than a year.  In the meantime the government's
attempt
to enjoin broadcasting by non- licensed micro radio has been put on
hold.

 Luke Hiken, attorney for Stephen Dunifer, stated, "This is the
second time a Federal court has recognized the constitutional
implications
of micro radio technology.  We hope the FCC will recognize the
importance
of facilitating the use of this technology for the benefit of the
American
people instead of denying its existence and obstructing its use."

 Speaking on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild Committee on
Democratic Communications, Peter Franck commented, "The CDC hopes that
the
court's refusal to enjoin micro radio is the beginning of a
recognition by
the country that any hope for democracy depends on free access to the
airwaves.  Micro power broadcasting has the potential for creating a
'green movement' of low-cost, easy-to-use media.  It is as
totalitarian to
require expensive, hard-to-get licenses for micro radio as it would be
to
say you can only speak from a soap box if it is made of gold."

 Stephen Dunifer said, "Judge Claudia Wilken's decision affirms the
validity of our legal position.  Further, this victory is a credit to
four
years of work by the National Lawyers Guild Committee on Democratic
Communications and my attorney, Luke Hiken, on behalf of the micro
power
broadcasting movement.  Unlike FCC attorney, David Silberman, I do not
see
irreparable harm resulting from micro power broadcasting.  Instead, I
see
an immeasurable benefit for all citizens if the micro power broadcast
movement prevails.  For too long, media access and the tools of
communication have been concentrated in the hands of corporate and
essentially anti-democratic interests.  If any harm results, it will
be
to those monopoly interests."

 For further information contact:  Free Radio Berkeley - (510)
644-3779, [phone] or Luke Hiken, attorney at law - (415) 705-
6460.
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail].  Send request to
[e-mail] for information packet.  Legal briefs and documents are
available at our ftp site - ftp.crl.com.  Directory path is
ftp/users/ro/frbspd/legal.

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


Bill Sohl  K2UNK     (Budd lake, New Jersey)
([e-mail])

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From: Martin McCormick <[e-mail]>
Subject: Clock Slips Again
Date: 31 Jan 1995 19:27:51 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State University  Stillwater, OK


I am pretty sure that we have a chronic case of clock slippage
somewhere in the interface between our campus' Ericsson MD110 and the
Southwestern Bell trunks.  I would like to prove it once and for all.
It occurred to me that a modem sending a steady carrier such as is
used to establish a 300-baud connection would be a perfect signal
generator.  It could be placed on a line off-campus and then called
from on-campus.  An oscilloscope placed on an analog campus line
should show clock slips as sudden phase shifts in the carrier.  Is
this a valid test?  If so, we could show the phase shifts through such
a line and then demonstrate that no such problems occur on campus or
between two Southwestern Bell lines.

 Any suggestions are appreciated since the feeling is that
there is really nothing wrong because the lines all sound clean and
voice calls don't get dropped.

 With a 2025hz tone, a clock slip should advance or retard the
carrier 90 degrees which should truly destroy the phase component of a
data transmission.


Martin McCormick WB5AGZ   Stillwater, OK
OSU Computer Center Data Communications Group

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 18:00 EST
From: Testmark Laboratories <[e-mail]>
Subject: Emergency Cellular Phone


I once heard of a cellular phone that was intended primarily for
emergency use, something to carry in a car for instance.  One could
purchase it, have it authorized, and pay no monthly fee.  If one used
it, they paid a fairly high per minute airtime that was automatically
charged to a major credit card.  Does anyone know of a product like
this?


John Combs, Project Engineer, TestMark Labs, [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Alfredo E. Cotroneo)
Subject: Ericsson GH337/EH237 Cellular Modem I/F
Date: 31 Jan 1995 14:56:13 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway


I am looking for information on availability of cellular modem I/F for
the Ericsson GSM GH337 model, and for the European TACS version EH237.
For both models the modem I/Fs are not apparently on sale (yet) on the
Italian market.

An Italian reseller also told me that in it is not possible (yet?) to
operate any modem/data communication over the Italian GSM network; I
made some experiment myself sending a modem signal over the voice
channel, but had no success, apparently for the losses induced by the
quantization/compression on GSM.

I would be most interested in knowing your experiences -- good or bad
 -- with the use of the GSM version of this phone, for both voice and
data (?).

Please cc by e-mail to : [e-mail], since I do not
get a regular news-feed.


Thanks,

Alfredo Cotroneo   Milano, Italy

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From: [e-mail] (Doug Reuben)
Subject: Metro Mobile (CT/RI/MA) Added to the NACN
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:23:46 EST


After years of holding out, Metro Mobile CT/RI/Western and
Southeastern
Mass (collectively known as Bell Atlantic's Northeast service area)
has been added to the NACN.

The NACN, or North American Cellular Network, is the A-side's
automatic
call delivery service, initiated by McCaw Cellular and some of it's
roaming partners, to provide increasingly seamless coverage throughout
the US and Canada.

Prior to Metro Mobile's addition to the NACN, Metro Mobile CT and
Western Mass customers had the use of most of their features as well
as call-delivery to Cell One/NY, ComCast/NJ-PA-DE, Metro Mobile/RI-SE
Mass, Cell One/Boston, and CO/Boston's Concord, NH "partnership"
service with Atlantic Cellular. So the addition of the NACN won't make
too much of a difference in terms of added coverage near Metro
Mobile's territory.  Moreover, Metro Mobile, unlike CO/NY, will assess
a roam charge for most (all) markets outside of it's properties,
Boston, and NY.

Additionally, the link between NY and CT (and everywhere else) seems
to lack the functionality of a typical NACN link. I've noticed that
ALL features normally available to a customer on his/her home system
are also available on a visited system (although some switches won't
allow this.)

Thus, Cell One/Boston customers can *successfully* set up and remove
voicemail from most NACN systems, as well as get call-waiting, yet on
Metro Mobile's switches, the same Boston customer will find that none
of these features will work.

Additionally, Metro Mobile customers roaming in NY can not, for
example,
forward calls to voicemail, selectively unforward unconditional
forward calls (by using *723), etc., even though these same features
are currently available to Boston customers roaming in NY, and even
though both Boston and CT use the same type of switches (Motorola
EMX-2500).

I've asked CO/NY for years to put in the *723 code so I could use
forwarding in NY without killing voicemail, but they were never able
to implement it, so it seems as if the same old link to CT is still in
place, but somehow Metro Mobile is now "on" the NACN in some limited
way. (If they were "fully" connected, I'd expect to be able to use my
features in NY or SF or wherever to the same extent that I can use my
Boston them from my Boston account.) Additionally, the standard NACN
Do Not Disturb codes (*350/*35) will NOT work in NY, instead, the
older Motorola codes (*28/*29) are required.

In any event, this finally allows most roamers to get automatic call
delivery in the Rhode Island system, which has been slow to get any
connectivity outside of Boston and CT in recent years. Any NACN
customer should now be able to receive calls in RI, use (some)
features, etc.  RI customers should now be able to receive calls in
NY, although they will pay a $3 daily and $.99 per minute. If you are
a RI customer, and roam into NY a good deal, get Boston account, which
offers no daily roam charge, and 44 peak/29 off-peak. You still have
to pay Boston's outrageous home airtime for call-delivery though.
Maybe just get a NYNEX account instead and be done with all these
silly charges from Metro Mobile and Cell One/Boston, both of whom seem
to want to nickel and dime their customers as much as possible. (I
still can't see how Boston customers put up with home airtime charges,
plus roaming charges, plus a daily roam charge, plus a $2 Boston
charge, just to receive phone calls!  :( )

Note that Metro Mobile's addition and lack of some features does NOT
affect Litchfield, CT, which has been on the NACN since October 1994
(or earlier), and seems to be run through CO/NY's switches. (They are
both McCaw owned and have the same messages on their switch/error
announcements.)


Doug Reuben              [e-mail]              (203) 499 -
5221
Interpage Network Services -- E-Mail/Telnet to Alpha or Numeric Pagers
& Fax

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From: [e-mail] (Paul Murray)
Subject: Product to Prevent PBX Phone Fraud
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Paul Murray)
Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 12:26:29 GMT


Pat,

A short while ago, I posted an item enquiring about phone fraud,
extent of
the problem, etc.

You asked for details, in your editorial message following my posting.

As I am an agent of the company which owns the technology, I wanted to
get their OK before releasing information. They have given that OK.

Here is a brief summary:
(note that I'm a layman and not a techie)

The Call Control System

CCS is a controlled access gateway which provides an additional layer
of security to the fraud vulnerable components of a PBX system.  By
validating the call origin using the Calling Line ID (CLID) and an
authorization code, the CCS limits access to the DISA ports, maintain-
enance ports and voice mail systems of a PBX.

The CCS is a combination of Canadian software and hardware. There are
three components to the system: Call Control Manager (CCM) software;
System Administration Manager (SAM) software; and Call Control
Interface hardware.

The intial application was developed for a long distance reseller. To
date this application has not had any unauthorized access. The traffic
runs over 15 million calls per month.

The company that developed the system is now offering the technology
to the general narketplace. Acquistion cost to users will run in the
$20,000 range for the system.

This is the general concept. If you would like to know more, I would
be
pleased to follow up.

We think this product will have appeal in the US market (and anywhwere
else that phone fraud is a problem) and would be pleased to have your
feedback, etc ...

Look forward to hearing from you (question from a nephyte Internet
user -
do you "hear" from someone using this medium??)


Best regards,

Paul Murray
Targeted Communication Management, Ottawa Canada


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From: Paul R. Baudisch <[e-mail]>
Subject: Electro 95 Electronics Conference, June 21-23, Boston
Date: 31 Jan 1995 22:18:32 GMT
Organization: The Internet Access Company


Electro '95 is a major electronics conference and exposition to be
held in Boston, June 21 - 23, 1995.  The show, sponsored by the IEEE
in alliance with the IPC (Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging
Electronic Circuits), will highlight important trends in surface mount
technology and contract manufacturing.  Over 8,000 attendees are
expected.

Marjorie Clapprood, a popular Boston talk show hostess and 1990
candidate
for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, will deliver the keynote
address
on June 21.  She will speak about the business climate in the
Northeast and
its impact on the electronics industry.

For more information, please visit our web site at:

              http://www.netmarquee.com/electro/electro.html

or contact Kathryn Piersall at [e-mail].

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