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TELECOM Digest     Thu, 23 Feb 95 13:07:00 CST    Volume 15 : Issue 114

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Telephone Solicitations and the FCC (Stan Brown)
    Gateways, Routers and Network Design (Karl Finkemeyer)
    FCC Raises Line Charges for ISDN (David St. Pierre)
    Wanted: RS232-Controlled Dialer/Phone Patch (Jeff C. Glover)
    UC Berkeley Short Courses on SONET/ATM and Wireless Comm (Harvey
Stern)
    AT&T Calling Card Mixup (Robert Scott)
    FATMA - What Does This Term Mean / Stand For? (Harry P. Haas)
    OSI NetExpert Users Wanted (Chris Hardaker)
    Looking for Interactive Voice Response Provider (Dean Lennox)
    Example of MIB Needed (Bob McLaughlin)
    Jobs Available at MCI (Van R. Hutchinson)
    Herbert Hoover (was Re: Humor at the FCC (Bob Keller)
    Wanted: Sources for Network Reliability Statistics (Glenn Russell)
    Last Laugh! Burned Out Newspapercreatures (Daryl Gibson)

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From: [e-mail] (Stan Brown)
Subject: Telephone Solicitations and the FCC
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 23:11:34 GMT
Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA


I've been having more trouble than usual lately with telemarketers, so
I decided it was time to go straight to the horse's mouth and get the
FCC's writeup on the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

That Act regulates telemarketing calls to residences.  It requires
each telemarketer to maintain a "do not call" lists and to put you on
its list if you so request.  Unfortunately (and rather amazingly), a
telemarketer is still allowed to call you once a year without penalty
_after_ you have asked to be put on its "do not call" list; however,
the second call in any 12-month period entitles you to sue for $500 or
actual monetary damages, whichever is greater.

The FCC's document is headed PUBLIC NOTICE; it was released January 11,
1993 (yess, 1993) and there's a reference number DA 92-1715.  The title
is Consumer Alert: Telephone Solicitations, Autodialed and Artificial or
Prerecorded Voice Message Telephone Calls, and the Use of Facsimile
Machines.  It's eight letter-sized pages long.  The FCC head office is:

           1919 M St NW,
           Washington DC 20554
                 [phone]

I got my copy from the Detroit office:

           24897 Hathaway St.
           Farmington Hills MI 48335-1552.
                 [phone]

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems                    [e-mail]
Can't find FAQ lists?  ftp to 'rtfm.mit.edu' and look in /pub/usenet
(or email me >>> with valid reply-to address <<< for instructions).
I can also send new-user information on Usenet--ask if you want it.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Gateways, Routers and Network Design
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 17:49:29 CDT
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections


Folks,

I need some help with a gateway/router/network design issue:

Situation: One WAN Ethernet which carries TCP/IP, Netware, SNA and
other traffic -- plus -- an additional WAN which carries only very
interactive and time-critical TCP/IP traffic. The original idea was to
keep the two networks totally separate in order to guarantee good
interactive response on the second WAN.

Problem: For system administration, operating, control, and maintenance
purposes, we do need connectivity between the two networks. Our CISCO
gurus tell us that the only way to have connectivity and still keep
unwanted traffic off the 2nd WAN would be to use only static routing -
which would create an administrative nightmare because then apparently
every router has to know every single IP address.

Question: Can we use a real gateway (i.e. more $$ than a regular CISCO
Router) to have connectivity between the two networks, but still
ensure that only packets which have their source or destination on the
second WAN get routed onto this second WAN?  In other words, would a
gateway
be smart enough to make its routing decisions strictly on the basis of
the FIRST byte of the source and destination IP addresses, without
knowing all the IP addresses on both networks, i.e. without the
administrative table-maintenance nightmare which static routing via
CISCO Routers seems to require.

Again, the goal is to keep the second WAN free of all traffic which
can be routed over the standard (first) WAN. Our worst nightmare is a
large file transfer or some Netware IPX/SPX transfer jeopardizing the
interactive TCP/IP responsiveness on the second WAN.

Which type of gateways should we be looking at? Any recommendations?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Please reply to TELECOM Digest or via email to
"[e-mail]".


Karl Finkemeyer    Fidelity Investments
[e-mail]  (also: [e-mail])

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From: [e-mail] (David St. Pierre)
Subject: FCC Raises Line Charges for ISDN
Date: 22 Feb 1995 19:59:47 GMT
Organization: Pacific * Bell


If you use ISDN to get into the Internet quickly and cost-effectively,
suddenly it's going to cost you more.  The Federal Communications
Commission has ordered Pacific Bell and other ISDN providers to raise
the number of required line charges for all ISDN products.  For Pacific
Bell customers, who have enjoyed among the lowest ISDN prices in the
country, increases will range from a maximum of 29 percent for Home
ISDN and Centrex ISDN, up to 43 per cent for SDS ISDN and as much as
50 percent for Primary Rate ISDN.

Here's why: Until now, each ISDN line coming into your home or office
was billed as one line.  Now the FCC has ruled that each ISDN customer
must be charged for each ISDN channel rather than each line.

Pacific Bell has filed a waiver asking the FCC to restore the original
one-for-one ISDN line charge.  We believe ISDN must remain affordable
and easy to access so that individuals, schools, libraries, researchers,
and businesses of all sizes can benefit from the Internet.

If you feel that the increased line charge will make ISDN less
affordable
for users like you, please E-mail your comments to us at
[e-mail],
and we will carry your message to the FCC.

To help you understand the issue, we're making available these documents
via
E-mail.  Just E-mail to these addresses to receive them.  No entries
necessary for subject or message body.

For Pacific Bell's news release on its FCC filing yesterday:
[e-mail]

For the FCC's most recent decision on ISDN subscriber line charges:
[e-mail]

For Pacific Bell's filing on ISDN subscriber line charges:
[e-mail]


Robert Deward, Manager, External Affairs, Pacific Telesis
David St. Pierre 510/823-6800

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From: [e-mail] (Jeff C. Glover)
Subject: Wanted: RS232-Controlled Dialer/Phone Patch
Date: 22 Feb 1995 20:09:51 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA


I'm looking for a device for a UNIX workstation, not a PC card.
Basically
I want something that connects to a RS232 port and an audio port
(in/out).

I know that some modems (Zyxel) provide CELP encoded audio via RS232,
but I don't want that.

Simply put, it must:

    * have RS232 I/O for dialing, status indications;
    * provide line-level audio inputs and outputs.

It'd be nice if:

    * it could detect and report usage of the phone line extensions;
    * access audio of extension usage (e.g. access database while
talking
        with someone; *99 [*WX] gives local weather report).


Jeff

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: UC Berkeley Short Courses on SONET/ATM and Wireless Comm
Date: 22 Feb 1995 22:27:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley


U.C. Berkeley Continuing Education in Engineering Announces 3 Short
Courses on Broadband Communications, Wireless Networks

MODERN TELECOMMUNICATIONS:  Wide Area Networks, Personal
Communication Systems, Network Management and Control, and
Multimedia Applications  (March 2-3, 1995)

This course is designed as a gentle but comprehensive overview of
telecommunications including current status and future directions.
This course traces the evolution of telecommunications, starting from
its voice roots and progressing through local, metropolitan, and wide
area networks, narrowband ISDN, asynchronous transfer mode, broadband
ISDN, satellite systems, optical communications, cellular radio,
personal communication systems, all-optical networks, and multimedia
services.

Lecturer: Anthony S. Acampora, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical
Engineering, Columbia University.  He is Director, Center for
Telecommunications Research. He became a professor following a 20 year
career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, is an IEEE Fellow, and is a former
member of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors.


SONET/ATM-BASED BROADBAND NETWORKS: Systems, Architectures and Designs
(March 29-31, 1995)

It is widely accepted that future broadband networks will be based on
the SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) standards and the ATM
(Asynchronous transfer Mode) technique.  This course is an in-depth
examination of the fundamental concepts and the implementation issues
for development of future high-speed networks.  Topics include:
Broadband ISDN Transfer Protocol, high speed computer/network
interface (HiPPI), ATM switch architectures, ATM network
congestion/flow control, VLSI designs in SONET/ATM networks.  This
course is intended for engineers who are currently active or
anticipate future involvement in this field.

Lecturer: H. Jonathan Chao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Brooklyn
Polytechnic University.  Dr. Chao holds more than a dozen patents and
has authored over 40 technical publications in the areas of ATM
switches, high-speed computer communications, and congestion/flow
control in ATM networks.


NETWORKS FOR DIGITAL WIRELESS ACCESS: Cellular, Voice, Data, Packet,
and Personal Communication Systems (March 6-8, 1995)

This comprehensive course is focused on the principles, technologies,
system architectures, standards, and market forces driving wireless
access.  At the core of this course are the cellular/microcellular/
frequency reuse concepts needed to enable adequate wireless access
capacity for Personal Communication Services (PCS).  Presented are
both the physical-level issues associated with wireless access and the
network-level issues arising from the inherent mobility of the
subscriber. Standards are fully treated including GSM (TDMA), IS-54
(North American TDMA), IS-95 (CDMA), CT2, DCT 900/CT3, IEEE 802.11,
DCS 1800, and Iridium.  Emerging concepts for wireless ATM are also
developed.  This course is intended for engineers who are currently
active or anticipate future involvement in this field.

Lecturer: Anthony S. Acampora, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical
Engineering, Columbia University.  He is Director, Center for
Telecommunications Research. He became a professor following a 20 year
career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, is an IEEE Fellow, and is a former
member of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors.

For more information (complete course descriptions, outlines,
instructor bios, etc.) send your postal address or fax to:


Harvey Stern  or Loretta Lindley
U.C. Berkeley Extension/Southbay
800 El Camino Real Ste. 150
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Tel: [phone]   Fax: [phone]

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From: [e-mail] (Robert Scott)
Subject: AT&T Calling Card Mixup
Date: 23 Feb 1995 16:09:38 GMT
Organization: School of Informatics, City University, London
Reply-To: [e-mail]


I'm a British citizen living in London.  Recently there was an ad
drive by AT&T to get people to use their calling card for calls to the
US and elsewhere.  Of course, I signed up for one.

Now as I understand it they are free as long as you don't use them.
But for some reason I noticed sums of $8.50 being charged and then
credited to my account.  It seems that I have been put on some
Military Saver scheme which is very strange since I'm not in the US
military or anything approaching it.

My question is: Is there an AT&T email address that I can send a
complaint to and get my card sorted out?  I have a feeling that it
might be easier to sort out by email rather than letters or phone
calls.


Rob Scott

Dept of Comp Sci, City University, London, UK.
http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/homes/rbs/homepage.html


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think the fact that they charged your
account (erroneously) $8.50 then credited it (correctly) on the same
or a subsequent statement demonstrates that the problem has in fact been
resolved. Probably when they got your original application for service
someone erroneously entered you in the military plan since AT&T does
have such an arrangement for American soldiers in Europe. Later, or
perhaps about the same time it was discovered this was incorrect and
an adjustment was made. All the various AT&T international and domestic
calling plans and calling card arrangements have numbers assigned to
them. Someone at a terminal processed your application and enrolled you
in (for example) 'plan #123' then they said, ooops, I meant plan #231
...
or similar. Or it went through and later a supervisor caught it. If you
keep on getting marketing and promotional materials for the military
plan *then* let us know, but I think you'll be okay. Honestly though,
if it were me, I'd hope they did *not* discover the error. AT&T gives
the soldiers a very good deal with absolutely rock-bottom pricing.  PAT]

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From: [e-mail] (Harry P. Haas)
Subject: FATMA - What Does This Term Mean / Stand For?
Date: 23 Feb 1995 09:51:10 -0500
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


I recently ran across the acronym FATMA.  If anyone is familiar with
this term, could you please define it for me?

Thanks in advance.


Harry Haas  GTRI/SEAL       Georgia Tech Research Institute
Research Engineer II        225 North Ave.
[e-mail]  Atlanta Georgia, 30332


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Have you checked the glossary files in
the Telecom Archives just to see whether or not it might be in there?
That's a good place to start looking for abbreviations and acronyms
you are unfamiliar with.  Anonymous ftp lcs.mit.edu.       PAT]

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·
Subject: OSI NetExpert Users Wanted
From: [e-mail] (Chris Hardaker)
Date: 23 Feb 95 08:22:55 EST


Is there anyone out there who are using or planning to use the
NetExpert system by Open System Integrators on a PSTN network? We at
CLEAR in New Zealand are in the first stage of implementing NetExpert
on a SUN Solaris platform ported to Oracle 7 and would like any
contacts who are willing to swap information and experiences.

For those of you who have never heard of this, this system is designed
to receive messages from all manner of devices (switch, FOTS
management systems, Routers, Lan analysers etc) and present the events
to an operator. The system can also handle correlating events. In
CLEAR's instance, we are looking at masking all subsequent alarms and
only having the operator presented with the 'root cause' alarm. As you
can appreciate, in the instance of losing a 2Gig fibre, this means a
lot of chaff is separated from the wheat. In fact our last 565Meg
fibre event resulted in over 2 Megabytes of data in a five minute
period and to cull this down to one single event would save around 30
minutes of analysis.  (My apologies if this sounds like advertising)

Any responses to me personally, thanks.

Chris Hardaker
Network Management
CLEAR Communications
Auckland
New Zealand

Ph [phone]
Fax [phone]
Email [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Dean Lennox)
Subject: Looking for Interactive Voice Response Provider
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:41:28
Organization: Maxim Communications


I am looking for an interactive voice response company to play back a
prerecorded message about a new product to all callers.

Please email, or phone.
Candler Brooks
908-707-3290
[e-mail]

Dean Lennox
Maxim Communications
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Example of MIB Needed
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 14:32:36 PDT


I am looking for an example MIB in an electronic form.  I need to
craft one for 38Ghz radios.


Thanks,

Bob McLaughlin

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 09:17 EST
From: Van R. Hutchinson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Jobs Available at MCI


Pat,

Subscribers who are in a career frame of mind (translation: looking
beyond current job or currently between jobs) may wish to send me an
e-mail for more info.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ MCI Communications Corp. has decided to add
475 workers to its residential sales center in Greenville.  The move
comes after the company hired 350 workers in November.  MCI spokesman
Matt Schwab said the success of the company's Friends and Family
calling program prompted the expansion. He said the company has done
most of the new hiring and will complete the task by the end of this
month.

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 10:30:13 EST
From: Bob Keller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Herbert Hoover (was Re: Humor at the FCC)


In TELECOM Digest V15 #113, the TELECOM Digest Editor noted, in
response to B. Z. Lederman <lederman@intransit_tsc.vntsc.dot.gov>:

> Hoover was in charge of the Federal Radio Commission I believe
> (forerunner of FCC).

Mr. Lederman was correct that, prior to the FCC or the FRC, Hoover was
Secretary of Commerce.  I don't think Hoover served at the FRC.  In
fact, I am reasonably certain that he continued as Secretary of
Commerce and was a moving force behind the legislative proposals
leading to enactment of the Communications Act of 1934.

The pre-1927 Commerce Department had jurisdiction over radio licensing.
Hoover and his staff attempted to resolve growing interference problems
from an uncooperative new broadcasting industry, by placing conditions
on
licenses restricting things such as frequency (or, in the parlance of
the
day, wavelength), hours of operation, etc.  But the courts held, and the
Attorney General concurred, that the Secretary's statutory authority did
not go this far and that such restrictions were therefore unenforceable.
It was in response to this problem that the Radio Act of 1927 was
enacted,
creating the Federal Radio Commission.

The 1927 Act is remarkably similar to Title III of the current
Communications
Act.  This is because the substantive regulatory portions of the Radio
Act of 1927 was essentially transplanted into Title III of the
Communications
Act of 1934.  The 1934 Act created the Federal Communications Commission
and
transferred to it the radio jurisdiction of the Radio Commission as well
as
jurisdiction over Telegraph and Telephone lines which previously resided
with
the Interstate Commerce Commission.


Bob Keller (KY3R)        Email: [e-mail]
Law Office of Robert J. Keller, P.C.  Telephone:  [phone]
Federal Telecommunications Law        Facsimile:  301.229.6875


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Good old Herbert Hoover, or as the radio
announcer on WLS once accidentally referred to him on the air, "Hoobert
Heever". That was, I think, in 1929 when he gave an address to the
nation over the radio on WLS. Hoover was the last in a series of three
Republican presidents (Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and himself)
who led the United States over a twelve year period 1920-32, each of
whom got just a single four year term. After the disasterous chain of
events in October, 1929 which led to the Great Depression in the 1930's
in the USA, people soured on the Republicans, and when Hoover ran for
re-election in 1932 against Franklin D. Roosevelt he was defeated,
beginning a twenty-year period of Democratic leadership which would not
end until 1952 when General Eisenhower, the war hero of WW-2 was
elected.
I think Hoover was appointed to his position at Commerce by Warren
Gamiel
Harding during his term, 1920-24. Radio (or rather, broadcast radio, on
AM frequencies) as we know it began in 1921. During 1922-23 a half-dozen
stations were operating in Chicago alone, including WLS and WGN, both
of which are widely known and listened to today.   PAT]

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From: [e-mail] (Glenn Russell)
Subject: Wanted: Sources for Network Reliability Statistics
Date: 22 Feb 1995 21:24:47 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.


Hello,

We are attempting to gather network reliability statistics on various
IXC's,
LEC's, and CAP's.  Preferably this data will come from independant
sources.
We are interested in verification of error free seconds or outage
frequency
following installation.

Information such as the percentage of error free seconds per 24 hour
period for DS1 fiber with an interoffice route greater than 250 miles,
would be helpful. And the same information for DS3 routes under 50
miles.

The specific IXC's: MCI, AT&T and Allnet;
LECS: US WEST, NYNEX, and PACBELL;
CAP's: MFS and ICG.

Does anyone know of any sources that track this type of information?


Thanks in advance!

Glenn Russell      [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 08:55:04 -0700 (MST)
From: Daryl Gibson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Last Laugh! Burned Out Newspapercreatures


Forwarded for your amusement, (with permission) from:
The Burned-Out Newspapercreatures Guild's Newsletter
BONG Bull, Charley Stough, Chief Copyboy
Copyright (c) 1995 by BONG.  All rights reserved.

SURFING THE INTERNET.  This week the Other Side Lives Committee found
the Usenet group alt.shenanigans, devoted to merry pranks called
"shens." Some of its postings also appear in alt.revenge, a group that
appreciates somewhat more vitriol in its pranks. Some shens:

     -- When confronted by an answering machine, contributors were
particularly creative.  One fellow leaves messages in a normal voice,
then suddenly switches to SUPERFASTSQUEAKYVOICE and then to v-e-r-y
l-o-w, s-l-o-w v-o-i-c-e, leaving the machine owner with worries about
his equipment.  Another plays back the operator saying this number is
not in service. And then there's the guy who recorded the AT&T intercept
tape for callers to the Northridge, Calif. area. "Due to an earthquake
in the area you are calling, your call cannot be completed at this
time," and put it on his own machine; he lives in Chicago.

     (In that vein, Dayton Daily News cartoonist Mike Peters has been
known to answer his phone with an empty coffee cup over his mouth,
creating that perfect mechanical echo sound.  Conversations go:
     "THIS IS MIKE. I CAN'T COME TO THE PHONE RIGHT NOW, BUT YOUR CALL
IS IMPORTANT TO ME. PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE AFTER THE BEEP (*beep*)."
     "Mike, this is Charley, it's 2:15 Tuesday, and -- "
     "(Still in machine mode) OH HI, CHARLEY!  HOW YA DOIN'?")

     -- Pagers are another foil.  A contributor gets even with his
weenie supervisor when he knows the super isn't near a phone.  He calls
the super's pager, then punches in the super's boss's number.

     (Dayton Daily News reporters with voice pagers, waiting in lines
at the bank, have been known to get loud calls saying, "YOUR LAWYER
CALLED AND HE SAYS YOU SHOULD MARRY THE GIRL.")

STRAWBOSS, THIS IS SNAKEYES, GIMME ARTILLERY SUPPORT.  Also at the
Dayton Daily News in the days before cellular phones, the company
invested megabucks in a Battle-of-the-Bulge walkie-talkie system.  But
it couldn't bring its human resources on-line.  When a reporter went
to a crime scene in a very troublesome poor-white neighborhood, one of
the airier brains on the city desk broadcast through the thing, "And
hey, tell the guys to watch yourselves out there!  I hear there's a
lotta bad-ass rednecks in that neighborhood!"

     The reporter, standing in a crowd of now even more dangerous
neighborhood residents, replied, "Tell 'em yourself!  You're talking to
'em!"  With that he handed the walkie-talkie to the nearest bad-ass
redneck and made an escape.

Never one for hidden pockets when a secret compartment would do, BONG
Chief Copyboy Charley Stough, Dayton Daily News, 45 S. Ludlow St.,
Dayton, Ohio 45401 salutes NYTNS haulers worldwide!  Phone (513)
225-2445 after 3 p.m. eastern. E-mail [e-mail].
Fax [phone].

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To subscribe:  Email to [e-mail].  In text say
SUBSCRIBE BONG-L.


Daryl
(801)378- 2950   [phone]
[e-mail]  [e-mail]

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