Return-Path: Received: by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.7.4/NSCS-1.0S) id OAA29428; Mon, 13 May 1996 14:23:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 14:23:11 -0400 (EDT) From: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick A. Townson) Message-Id: <199605131823.OAA29428@massis.lcs.mit.edu> To: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V16 #234 TELECOM Digest Mon, 13 May 96 14:23:00 EDT Volume 16 : Issue 234 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Telecom Archives CDROM Ordering Details (TELECOM Digest Editor) Call For Papers: Enterprise Networking (ENM-97) (Michael W. Goodwin) Book Review: "NetWare to Internet Gateways" by Gaskin (Rob Slade) Public Comment on Area Codes (Tad Cook) PCS "Offered" in the Carolinas (Stan Schwartz) Drastic Changes at BellSouth -- $33 For all Features (Ron Elkayam) WUTCO, WECO, Graybar (was Re: An Old Stromberg Stepper) (Mark J. Cuccia) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Telecom Archives CDROM Ordering Details Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 18:42:16 -0700 From: TELECOM Digest Editor People have been asking how to order the Telecom Archives CDROM by mail order. Not everyone has been able to find it in a store as of yet. If you can find it in a store, you will save on the shipping charges, however it might simply be easier for you to order it direct from the publisher, so details are given below. The Telecom Archives is a fifteen year collection of the stuff which has appeared in TELECOM Digest since 1981 along with a few hundred other files of telecom related material. There are a lot of technical files, historical files, etc. Everything that was there through the end of 1995 is included. The cost is $39.95. Please buy a copy, as the royalties will help me a lot. 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PAT -------------------- The Telecom Archives remains a free resource for the Internet and is available using anonymous ftp massis.lcs.mit.edu. ------------------------------ From: Michael.W.Goodwin@att.com Subject: Call For Papers: Enterprise Networking (ENM-97) Date: 12 May 1996 18:56:45 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories A Mini-conference on Enterprise Networking (ENM-97) is being organized to be held in parallel and co-located with the ICC-97 (8-12 June 1997 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada). A separate proceedings will be published and each of the ENM-97 registrants will receive a copy. ENM-97 (June 11-12, 1997) is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society's Technical Committee on Enterprise Networking. It provides an open forum for the enterprise networking communities to review the new and emerging technologies, services, their implications from both business and technological viewpoints. The objective is to bridge the gap across: (a) Enterprise-wide business drivers and (b) Technology- driven solutions and enablers. Some examples of enterprise drivers are: (i) Cost reduction via process re-engineering, (ii) Revenue enhancement using new services, (iii) Effective interaction, efficient information access and distribution across the enterprise. The mini-conference includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, papers and poster sessions by the leaders, recognized experts and active researchers in the field. Special emphasis will be put on case studies involving efficient design/re-design, operations and management of enterprise wide computing and communications utilities with the right mix of technology and business process updates. Instructions: The title page must include corresponding author's full name, complete postal and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and a 200-word abstract. Five double-spaced copies of the panel proposals and papers (12 point times font, maximum 3000 words) on 8.5"x11" papers should be sent to the ENM-97 program chair at the address given below. Schedule: Complete Manuscript Due: November 15, 1996 Acceptance Note Mailed: February 01, 1997 Camera-ready Paper Due: March 01, 1997 Technical areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Utilization of new and emerging technologies like ATM, PCS, CTI, full-duplex LAN services, etc. for evolution of enterprise networks to meet business and customers needs, * IntraNets, Middlenets and Internets: How they are shaping Enterprise Networks, * Handling of the legacy systems or technologies with the new and emerging ones for graceful migration to deployment of new technologies, * Integration of subsystems of enterprise networks, such as e-mail gateways, LAN switches, bridges and routers, database systems, and security and authentication mechanisms with the internets to provide "end-user" oriented services, such as video- conferencing, multi-media mails, etc., * Integration between applications and services offered by the enterprise network itself e.g., multicast service, policy routing, information retrieval, etc., * Interconnection and interoperability of all pieces of an enterprise network * Enterprise-wide computing, including distributed processing systems, distributed applications, client-serving computing, etc. * Enterprise information resource management. Enterprise Networks Management (e.g., configuration, fault, performance, accounting, security, etc.), * Business processes re-engineering using computer and communications resources distributed across the organization * Pros and cons of outsourcing the operations, management and design of enterprise networks, Negotiating for outsourcing, Insourcing after outsourcing, etc., * Integration of network and systems management from an enterprise viewpoint. * Interaction and relationship of public versus private networks, especially in light of the Telecom Act of Feb.08, 1996. Program Committee: Chair: Bhumip Khasnabish, GTE Labs. Inc., 40 Sylvan Rd., Waltham, MA 02254, USA. Tel +1-617-466-2080, Fax +1-617-890-9320 E-Mail: bhumip@gte.com Vice-Chairs: Ken Pogran (pogran@bbn.com), BBN, USA Douglas N. Zuckerman (w2xd@mtnms.att.com), AT&T, USA Publicity Chair: Vijay K. Bhagavath (bhagavath@bell-labs.com), Bell Labs., USA Business and Finance: Robert S. Braudy (braudyb@aol.com), BTG, LLC, NJ, USA. Local Arrangements (TBC): Mustafa K. Mehmet-Ali (mustafa@ece.concordia.ca), Concordia Univ., Canada ComSoc Co-Ordinator: Tom Stevenson (t.stevenson@ieee.org), IEEE ComSoc HQ, USA Committee Members (to-date): Majid Ahmadi , U. of Windsor, Canada Salah Aidarous, NorTel, Canada Vijay K. Bhagavath, Bell Labs., USA Robert S. Braudy, BTG, USA Nim K. Cheung, Bellcore, USA. Celia L. Desmond, Stentor Canada Chris Douligeris, U. of Miami, USA Ahmed Elhakeem, Concordia U., Canada Bob Fike, RNF Systems, USA Harvey Freeman, LANWORKS, USA Jerry Hayes, Concordia Univ., Canada Heinz-Gerd Hegering,LRZ M., Germany Ron Horn, NorTel, Canada Rudolf Jaeger, BetaTechnik, Germany David Kirsch, NDC, USA John E. Knecht, Bell Labs., USA Ken Lutz, Bellcore, USA Branislav Meandzija, GI, USA Hussein Mouftah, Queen's U., Canada Robert J. Ordemann, Boeing, USA Craig Partridge, BBN, USA Ken Pogran, BBN, USA Roberto Saracco, CSELT, Italy Steve Weinstein, NEC, USA Yechiam Yemini, Columbia U., USA Mac Yoshida, NTT, Japan Wolfgang Zimmer, Germany Douglas N. Zuckerman, AT&T, USA. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:07:06 EST From: Rob Slade Subject: Book Review: "NetWare to Internet Gateways" by Gaskin BKNWINGT.RVW 960417 "NetWare to Internet Gateways", James E. Gaskin, 1996, 0-13-521774-1, U$44.95 %A James E. Gaskin james@gaskin.com jgaskin@mcimail.com %C One Lake St., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 %D 1996 %G 0-13-521774-1 %I Prentice Hall %O U$44.95 +1-201-236-7139 fax: +1-201-236-7131 beth_hespe@prenhall.com %P 532 %T "NetWare to Internet Gateways" As with his earlier "Novell's Guide to Integrating UNIX and NetWare Networks" (cf. BKNGIUNN.RVW), Gaskin has put together an extremely useful reference for a very interesting topic. NetWare LANs often need connectivity to other systems, with the Internet being the hot topic of the moment. Six chapters provide the basic concepts and background. There is an overview of the Internet itself, technological aspects and ideas, the business case for the use of the net, service providers, connection options, and access procedures. The bulk of the book consists of detailed reviews of major Internet gateway systems for NetWare, arranged by platform. (Demonstration versions of six of these are included on a companion CD for the readers' own assessment.) copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996 BKNWINGT.RVW 960417. Distribution permitted in TELECOM Digest and associated publications. Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | "In questions of science, the Institute for rslade@vanisl.decus.ca | authority of a thousand is not Research into Rob.Slade@f733.n153.z1/| worth the humble reasoning User .fidonet.org| of a single individual." Security Canada V7K 2G6 | - Galileo ------------------------------ From: Tad Cook Subject: Public Comment on Area Codes Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:25:35 PDT SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 1996--In a victory for consumer rights, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has ruled that Californians have the right to receive information about and be heard on multiple area code relief plans, rather than being limited to commenting on only one proposal. The ruling by Administrative Law Judge Thomas R. Pulsifer came as a blow to a coalition of companies led by long-distance giants AT&T, MCI and Sprint, which asked the Commission in March to allow only one type of area code relief plan -- a geographic split -- to be discussed at upcoming public meetings next month for the 415, 714 and 916 area codes. "This is clearly a setback for those companies trying to stifle and limit public comment and involvement in the area code relief process," said John Gueldner, regulatory vice president for Pacific Bell. "This sends a clear signal that the CPUC believes the industry should provide more -- not less -- information to consumers." Both geographic splits and overlays were proposed in telecommunications industry meetings for the 415, 714 and 916 area codes, but representatives were unable to reach consensus on any one relief alternative or on the process for state-required public meetings and declared an impasse. As part of its petition, the coalition sought to prohibit Pacific Bell and other companies from proposing overlays as an alternative to geographic splits during industry meetings or at the public meetings. The coalition maintains that state law allows the industry to select only one option to go before the public. In his ruling, Pulsifer called the coalition's objections to presenting more than one option 'unwarranted.' "The coalition interprets (state law) too narrowly in arguing that it precludes the presentation in public meetings of both overlay and geographic splits as options for introducing new area codes," the judge wrote. "Nothing in the (law) precludes discussion of multiple (area code relief) options ... including a split or an overlay." As to the coalition's request to prohibit the proposal of overlays, the judge said a final decision on the merits of overlays would be premature at this time. He said the Commission will consider the issue in July when results of a statewide consumer opinion survey on area code relief preferences are available as well as more information on issues related to overlays. In the meantime, he ruled that both geographic splits and overlays should be presented at public meetings in June for 415 and 916 and the 714 area code in Southern California. The ruling clears the way for the area code relief process, bogged down by disagreements and the industry impasse, to continue with full disclosure at the public meetings for the three regions. In a geographic split, about half of the customers in the existing area code get a new area code and the remainder retain the old one. With an overlay, a new area code is placed over the existing one within the same geographic boundaries. But the new area code is given only to people who request a new phone number. Generally, overlays are cheaper, can be implemented faster, last longer and allow existing customers to keep their area codes, thus avoiding the expense and inconvenience of printing new stationery, business cards and notifying callers of the change, Gueldner said. Nationwide, the first overlay area code was introduced in New York in 1992. And last year, the Maryland State Public Utilities Commission ordered an overlay for the 301 area code serving the entire state. Pacific Bell is a subsidiary of Pacific Telesis Group, a San Francisco-based diversified telecommunications corporation. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:52:08 EDT From: Stan.Schwartz@IBMMAIL Subject: PCS "Offered" in the Carolinas An ad in today's {Charlotte Observer} is the first I've seen for PCS service in this market. Alltel Mobile (the B-side cellular carrier in Charlotte) has an add announcing "PCS is Here! Complete Carolinas Coverage for 32c a minute or less." A call to the local Alltel Mobile store/office tells a different story. What Alltel is offering is the Motorola PT5 phone for $59.95 (price includes activation) or three Ericsson models starting at $159 with STANDARD CELLULAR SERVICE until July. Once the BellSouth Mobility towers are available for public use in July, you'll be able to flip to the digital service with the same handset and no change in hardware. BellSouth Mobility had a demo at a street fair here about a week ago, and I played with their Ericsson DCS phone. The BellSouth rep told me that the service wouldn't be available here until July, and it would be priced a bit lower than cellular in this market. This is why the $49.95/month for 110 minutes + 32c for additional minutes sounds a bit fishy to me. Are there any P(D)CS/analog cellular dual-mode phones on the market? Will my Motorola TDMA dual mode phone work with the new service? It seems like there will be quite a bit of confusion around this in the coming months. Stan (stan@vnet.net) ------------------------------ From: relkay01@fiu.edu (Ron Elkayam) Subject: Drastic Changes at BellSouth -- $33 For All Features Date: 12 May 1996 20:05:35 GMT Organization: Florida International University God bless the Telecommunications Act. Today when I opened my latest phone bill, I was up for one heck of a surprise ... BellSouth is now offering Complete Choice plan for residential lines. Lets you pick from virtually all touchstar services, as many of them as you'd like, for a flat rate of $26/month. (Comes out to $33 when you add access charges and taxes). You can even add and remove from a generous list of services as often as you'd like with no connection /disconnection fee. It's simply an amazing offer. So I call 1-800-463-5463 and I place my order: * Call Waiting Deluxe - includes Caller ID Name/Number, Anonymous Call Rejection, and Caller ID while in the middle of the call. It will still work on my older Caller ID Name/Number boxes according to the rep; the only difference is that when/if I get the nifty phone that supports Spontaneous Caller ID (or Caller ID on Call Waiting), that phone will also show me the incoming Caller's ID while offhook. * Call Return - just in case the Caller ID box messes up, or when I'm on the phone on another call and ignore the Call Waiting tone. * Three-way Calling * Speed Calling - the rep actually gave me a choice between 8 and 30 number-memory ... guess which one I picked... * Call Forwarding - when I'm on the modem, I'll probably forward to the other line, or to the cellular phone when it's during nights/weekends. * Preferred Call Forwarding - I always liked forwarding certain people to #'s like "All circuits are busy" or "Please deposit 25 cents" * Remote Access to Call Forwarding - when I move around. * Flexible Call Forwarding - some complex service to assure you always get the call (or something...) When I get the instructions on how to use it, I'll be smarter... * Call Block - for the telemarketers. * Call Selector - so when I hear a specific ring pattern, I'll know to let the answering machine pick up the call. * RingMaster Service - I got two new additional numbers. Lots of things I can do, like give out one of them to people I don't want to talk to (but have to give a # to...) Or to give one number to people I REALLY want to talk to, so when I hear the specific ring pattern, I rush to the phone. Or, maybe I'll get one of those fax/voice/modem redirecting-boxes. * Call Tracing - Three times and you're out kinda thing. No charge now. * Customized Code Restrictions - 976/900 block, 3rd-party billing block; was thinking about collect call block, but decided someone, somewhere, sometimes might have an emergency. Pretty friggin' cool for $33/month (including taxes!) Wonder how soon before I'm starting to see 20c/min to Israel ... two years max I suspect ... (If not completely free via a Dialogic/Iphone relay method.) Have fun boys and girls, Ron Miami, FL [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: From what we have seen at one time or another in the past, as soon as one telco starts a new plan, quite often the others offer the same thing shortly thereafter, so perhaps it will not be long until all the Bell Companies offer this sort of fla rate package for features. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 12:54:56 -0700 From: Mark J. Cuccia Subject: WUTCO, WECO, Graybar (was Re: An Old Stromberg Stepper) The following is culled from AT&T's publication "Events in Telephone (Telecommunications) History" (a publication first issued around 1958 and frequently updated and reissued), and from memory, from reading various telephone and related historical materials: In 1869, a patnership of George W. Shawk and Enos M. Barton was formed to take over an electric shop in Cleveland which Western Union Telegraph had decided to abandon. A silent partner, Civil War vereran General Anson Stager stipulated that the business move to Chicago which was accomplished that year. A few months later, Shawk sold his interests to Elisha Gray. The partnership became knwon as Gray and Barton. In 1872, the Gray and Barton partnership became the Western Electric Manufacturing Company of Chicago. Thus Western Electric predates the telephone itself. In April 1878, competition in telephony began when WUTCO established a subsidiary, the American Speaking Telephone Company and the Gold & Stock Telephone Company. Their telephones used a *receiver* developed by Elisha Gray and a *transmitter* (microphone) developed by Thomas Alva Edison. They even developed a *handset*, basically an metal rod connecting the separate transmitter and receiver. WUTCO used telegraph plant where they had competitive telephone service. In November 1879, WUTCO and the National Bell Telephone Company settled a suit brought by National Bell against WUTCO. WUTCO acknowledged A.G.Bell's patents and agreed to stay out of voice telephony. National Bell agreed to buy WUTCO's telephony properties and stay out of public telegraph service in areas occupied by WUTCO. (NOTE: this agreement did NOT stipulate that Bell stay out of telegraphy altogather! ONLY that Bell wouldn't go into direct competition with WUTCO regarding telegraphy in areas where WUTCO provided services!) March 1880: The American Bell Telephone Company (a successor to National Bell) was formed to consolidate Bell and WUTCO telephone properties. It remained the parent company of The Bell Telephone System until 1899. In November 1881, Western Electric acquired the only existing licenses to manufacture Bell equipment. In February 1882, American Bell and WECo agreed that Western would be the *sole* supplier of Bell telephones and equipment. December 1899: AT&T (the toll side of Bell) took over American Bell Telephone, thus becoming the parent company of The Bell System. December 1910, AT&T acquired 30% of stock of WUTCO. This was dissolved with "Kingsbury" in 1913. The building at 195 Broadway, New York, was being planned in this time frame. Both AT&T and WUTCO had ownership of this building. Even after "Kingsbury", WUTCO maintained offices and and interest in the building. In 1930, WUTCO moved out of the building to new offices further uptown in Manhattan and AT&T purchases WUTCO's interests in the 195 Broadway building. I've seen advertisements of the 1920's showing where (AT&T's) Western Electric was still manufacturing and marketing household electrical appliances such as vacuum cleaners, lamps (and probably light bulbs), radio recievers (AT&T's 1920's era delve into radio broadcasting and "talkies" motion pictures is also quite interesting), etc; things which were *not* directly related to the regulated telephone industry! In 1925, WECO set up Graybar Electric (from the old Gray and Barton?) as a subsidiary to handle non-telephone manufacturing and sales. In 1930, WECO sold Graybar Electric to Graybar's employees. I've seen the name Graybar Electric Company in existance all the way up through the 1980's. It manufactured various electrical parts and appliances, including telephones and telephone parts. Those telephones and parts were mostly sold (I would assume) to independent non-Bell telcos, later, to the general public when they could "legally" buy and plug-in "foreign attatchments" to the telephone system. I would also guess that businesses bought Graybar telephone equipment for PBX's and intercom systems in the 1930's, 40's, 50's and 60's. In April 1951, the FCC approved Bell's acquisitions of WUTCO's telephone business. It seems that WUTCO operated telephone services (I don't have many details) in either California and maybe other states (Oregon, Washington, parts of Idaho?) also served by (Bell) Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. Also included here is that Pacific Telephone & Telegraph would sell its public *telegram* services to WUTCO. As for radio broadcasting and "talkies" motion pictures in the 1920's, Western Electric (AT&T) as well as Westinghouse and General Electric (and later RCA- the Radio Corporation of America) were developing radiotelegraph and radiotelephone services. By the early 1920's, radio broadcasting was beginning. Initially, there were cross-licensing arrangements between the above mentioned companies as well as the United Fruit Company (associated with Tropical Radio Telegraph. In the late 1970's, the TRT Telex sales office in New Orleans still had its suite in the local United Fruit Company office building). AT&T started radio station WEAF New York (which later became WNBC/WRCA and I think is now WFAN-660am). AT&T even began a broadcasting network, but would only let stations using WECO/Bell-Labs licensed transmitter and associated equipment join as affiliates. Stations owned by GE, Westinghouse and RCA (such as WJZ New York, now WABC-770am) or those not using WECo/Bell-Labs equipment were shut out. They formed a second radio network, but could only use WUTCO telegraph trunk circuits to do a broadcast hook-up. Telegraph circuits were inferior, as they weren't designed for voice. Well, eventually, AT&T sold its broadcast operations to the GE-Westinghouse-RCA consortium in 1926, and thus you had NBC -- the National Broadcasting Company. RCA owned 50% of NBC, GE and Westinghouse owned 20% and 30%, but I don't remember which owned which. RCA bought out GE and Westinghouse's interests in NBC around 1930 or so (and GE bought out RCA about ten years ago. The thought of selling NBC-TV has since been tossed about; NBC-Radio is now associated with the group or management of Westwood/Infinity/Mutual/etc). In the late 1920's, the old AT&T WEAF network became NBC-Red; the old RCA/Westinghouse/GE WJZ network became NBC-Blue. In the late 1930's or early 1940's, the FCC began an investigation of monopolization of "chain" broadcasting (network radio), even though there were two other national networks, namely CBS -- the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. NBC-Blue (historically the original WJZ RCA/Westing- house/GE network) was sold off and became ABC -- the American Broadcasting Company. AT&T/WECo developed equipment for "talkies" in the mid to late 1920's. I know that there were some anti-trust or consent violations regarding this, but I'm not all that sure of the details of exactly what happened in the 1920's period. However, in old movies I've seen from the 1930's through early 1960's, including old *filmed* TV programs of the late 40's through early 60's, in the credits there is mention of *either* "An RCA Sound Recording" *or* "A Western Electric Microphonic Recording". By the late 1950's, I've seen mention in the credits as "A Westrex Recording". Sometime in the early 1960's, Westrex became part of Litton Industries. The Western Electric (or Westrex) indication of sound recording equipment used in these films was written in the traditional 'lightening-bolt' script of WECo. MARK J. CUCCIA PHONE/WRITE/WIRE: HOME: (USA) Tel: CHestnut 1-2497 WORK: mcuccia@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu |4710 Wright Road| (+1-504-241-2497) Tel:UNiversity 5-5954(+1-504-865-5954)|New Orleans 28 |fwds on no-answr to Fax:UNiversity 5-5917(+1-504-865-5917)|Louisiana(70128)|cellular/voicemail [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thank you very much for this most interesting article to conclude this issue of the Digest. It does not happen much any longer, but occassionally when there is a *really old* movie on television from the 1930's, the closing credits will indicate the sound/audio work was done by Western Electric. WECO also did a couple of experimental things with phonograph records in the early 1930's. One which comes to mind was the recording made by organist Edwin H. LeMare (1865-1934) in the last couple years of his life at the Atlantic City Auditorium. LaMare, a native of Great Britain who had lived in the USA for many years and had been employed as municipal organist for the City of Atlantic City, NJ was mostly known for his transcriptions of Richard Wagner, but in this case he recorded a collection called 'Bach on the Biggest' on the organ at the Auditorium, an instrument which has sadly been in much disrepair for many years now. Originally on several 78-rpm disks, it was re-issued around 1948-49 as a single 'new style' 33-rpm disk, which is also now long out of print and unavailable. Western Electric intended it to promote a new sound recording technique they had developed. I've heard it and it was of amazing sound quality. As a writer said earlier in this issue, let us all praise divestiture, and to be sure, there has been good from it, but I don't care what anyone says, *no one will ever duplicate the glorious history* which was part of this business for the first century. Call me a nostalgic old fool if you want, as I sit here typing this and listening to some of LaMare's transcriptions of Wagner playing on a recording in the background. PAT] ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and America On Line. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. 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