Return-Path: Received: by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.7.4/NSCS-1.0S) id BAA25650; Fri, 30 May 1997 01:08:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 01:08:22 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <199705300508.BAA25650@massis.lcs.mit.edu> To: ptownson Subject: TELECOM Digest V17 #138 TELECOM Digest Fri, 30 May 97 01:08:00 EDT Volume 17 : Issue 138 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson New 911 System Press Release (Jim Jacobs) Emergency Call Services (Raymond K.S. Yeung) Number Portability Introduced in Finland (Kimmo Ketolainen) Where to Put 100,000 Cell Phone Towers? (oldbear@arctos.com) USWest Changes to Coin Service (Babu Mengelepouti) Remote Access Problems (Jeanne Cooney) European Simulation Symposium, Germany, October 1997 (Alexander Verbraeck) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. 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The Berks County Board of Commissioners voted today to install the new system -- called 911Plus(TM) -- in its emergency services command center based in Reading. The centralized facility, providing police, fire and emergency medical assistance, serves a county population of 336,523 persons residing in 76 municipalities including Reading. 911Plus is a new breakthrough technology introduced in January 1997 by LifeSafety(TM) Solutions, Inc. of Wynnewood. The nationwide service provides police, fire and emergency medical services with critical personal information about subscribers such as medical history and preexisting conditions as well as the location of children, the elderly or the infirm within a household. In addition, a designated third party (such as a relative, care giver or neighbor) who has been identified as an emergency contact by the subscriber, is notified by the LifeSafety Solutions Communications Center that a 9-1-1 call was initiated. The new service goes a step further than the Enhanced 9-1-1 currently in use by Berks County and many municipalities across the nation, which only provides emergency call centers with the phone number and address of a 9-1-1 caller. With 911Plus, when a subscriber calls 9-1-1 for help, a simultaneous transmission of their personal information is routed from the 911Plus database and delivered via computer screen to the 9-1-1 call taker at the time the emergency call is answered. ``We feel that 911Plus has great potential to provide valuable information and assistance to police, fire and emergency medical personnel who are responding to a 9-1-1 call and may even potentially be the difference between life and death in some instances,'' said Craig S. Breneiser, Director of Communications for Berks County. ``We're especially pleased to enhance our reputation of remaining on the cutting edge of technology and new developments in public-safety communications by being the first large, multi-jurisdictional communications facility to bring 911Plus to the public.'' LifeSafety Solutions will provide the necessary 911Plus hardware and software at no cost to the Berks County public safety 9-1-1 center. The optional subscription service will cost households eight dollars per month (billed on their local telephone bill) or a discounted $84 per year for those consumers preferring to prepay for a year's service. The system is expected to be placed into public service on August 1. ``The launch of 911Plus in Berks County marks a new generation of personal safety services for consumers,'' said Jay T. Snider, president and chief executive officer of LifeSafety Solutions. ``We've forged a partnership between government and private industry that advances and improves emergency service response capabilities. Berks County has distinguished itself as a forward thinking county committed to providing the utmost in public-safety protection. We're excited to work with Berks County as it becomes the first public-safety agency in the world to take full advantage of this potentially lifesaving breakthrough.'' A print and television advertising campaign will launch this summer in support of the new service. Consumers seeking more information about 911Plus can call LifeSafety Solutions at 888-4-911PLUS. LifeSafety Solutions, Inc., established in 1996, was founded by the partners of SpectaGuard, Inc., the Wynnewood, Pa.-based Integrated Asset Protection company with 3,500 employees providing security services at shopping malls, high-rise office buildings, colleges, banks, business complexes, transportation centers, hospitals and industrial sites throughout the Northeast region of the country. LifeSafety and 911Plus are trademarks of LifeSafety Solutions, Inc. ------------------------------ From: Raymond K.S. Yeung Subject: Emergency Call Services Date: 28 May 1997 20:31:41 GMT Organization: AdiCom Wireless Does anyone know what a PBX would do when there's no resources (e.g. outgoing trunks) to support an emergency call (i.e. 911) from a local PBX subscriber? Would the PBX block the emergency call? Or would it bump out another "non-emergency" call to get the needed resources? Any publicized standards that specify this scenario? Raymond ryeung@adicomw.com ------------------------------ From: kk@iki.fi (Kimmo Ketolainen) Subject: Number Portability Introduced in Finland Date: 28 May 1997 06:32:41 +0300 Organization: Weyland-Yutani Corporation The Telecommunications Administration Centre (TAC) has just last week started to register national portable numbers under the 071 code using seven digits, i.e. maximum 10 million different numbers (population of the country: 5.1 million). There are today 38 (thirty-eight) individual registered numbers, including 071 111 1111 and 071 234 5678. Timeline of number portability in Finland is as follows: 19 Jun 1996 Decision to introduce number portability (TAC) Press release: 1 Nov 1996 Testing of number portability begins at all ~50 telecoms 19 Mar 1997 Release of technical details and registration rules (TAC) 15 May 1997 Release of further rules (TAC) 1 Jun 1997 Number portability introduced by telecoms 30 Sep 1998 Number portability available at all locations Registration has been started using the subsets 1 and 2 of the 071 code (071 1.. and 071 2..). See for registration tables (headings in English). One time registration fees are: 1-9 numbers: 100 FIM/decision 10-1000 numbers: 300 FIM/decision over 1000 numbers: 1000 FIM/decision Registrations are independent of any telecoms but registered numbers must be taken in use (on any subscriber landline) in six months. After that period unused numbers will be returned back to the public spool. Great Britain will adopt number portability in the autumn of 1997. Kimmo Ketolainen * kk@sci.fi * http://iki.fi/kk * Tel. Earth +358 40 55555 08 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:22:49 -0400 From: The Old Bear Subject: Where to Put 100,000 Cell Phone Towers? WHERE DO YOU PUT 100,000 CELL PHONE TOWERS? While the U.S. government eagerly sells off portions of the electromagnetic spectrum in the interest of balancing the federal budget, legislators are overlooking a major hurdle for the companies that want to use these frequencies. Unlike analog cellular service, which is supported by fewer than 15,000 towers nationwide, the next-generation digital cellular -- known as PCS -- will require more than 100,000 cellular towers to provide reliable service. More than 300 communities already have revolted, imposing moratoria on cell tower construction, and the movement is growing. Fueling the problem are fears that property values will be adversely affected by the giant structures and suspicions that cellular transmissions can cause increased instances of leukemia and other health problems. "Today, there are 45 million users of wireless phones, yet we are still unable to certify the safety of this product for American consumers because adequate research apparently has not been performed," writes Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who's asked the FDA to assess the research done to date. source: Investor's Business Daily May 29, 1997 as summarized by edupage ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:24:24 -0700 From: Babu Mengelepouti Reply-To: dialtone@vcn.bc.ca Organization: US Secret Service Subject: USWest changes to coin service There are some fairly interesting things happening in the Pacific Northwest areas that USWest serves: - USWest is updating many of its payphones from Western Electric style to new Northern Telecom Millenium payphones. These are very expensive (I've heard varying reports on their price ranging from $1,000-$2,000 apiece) which have a digital display, card reader, etc. They are also immune to "red box" toll fraud, as they behave like COCOTs (determination of funds put into the phone is determined by the phone itself, not the central office -- then the phone dials the call from an unrestricted line). - They are eliminating the "bell" logo from anything that references USWest Communications. They have even gone so far as to change out the cards on the top of their payphones to new ones that do not bear the "bell" logo. - Filings have been made with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission and the Oregon PUC to raise coin rates for local calls. Initially they want 35 cents but some sources say that they want to eventually raise rates to 50 cents or more. Already in Nebraska local calls from USWest payphones cost 35 cents. Of course this is to "make coin calls pay for themselves" even though COCOT owners seem to do just fine with LOWER coin-paid toll rates and the same price for local calls. - USWest operators will no longer connect you to repair service for coin telephones. They ask if there is a number on the phone, and will put you through to that if you ask. Or if there is no number, they'll connect you for free to directory assistance to get the number. This is because it is apparently illegal now for USWest operators to offer any service to themselves that they do not also offer to COCOT owners, and even though they know their own telephone numbers they can't keep track of every COCOT. Therefore one has to squint in the dark and read off of a weather-stained card on a payphone to find the 800 number to USWest, or talk to an out-of-state directory assistance operator who can't find a number to USWest because it's not an 800 number. Or gives you the number to the business office which is usually closed. . /|\ //|\\ Welcome to the rainforest... ///|\\\ dialtone@vcn.bc.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 23:00:46 -0400 From: Jeanne Cooney Subject: Remote Access Problems Organization: Information Access Center Hello ... Re: Remote access solution using Cisco Access Server AS5200s and PRI lines. We have run into an intermittent problem that we can not figure out (or sometimes duplicate). On two separate occasions we have run into fast busy signals in seven of ten calls. - The first time the carrier indicated that it was a D channel failure (I was of the impression that if a D channel failed that the channels would go in lock out and the next PRI would be selected). We will be testing this tomorrow. - The second time we tested and determined that the first channel was creating a problem (carrier disabled all channels in the PRI except the one being tested and pulsed in on the channel ... we were able to repeatedly duplicate the problem on channel one). Working with IAC we moved the PRI to the second AS5200 and tested the first channel again - NO BUSY. We then moved the PRI back to the first AS5200 to see if the channel was still in trouble (this would prove that it was hardware) ... NO BUSY. The trouble vanished and now we have no explanation. Any ideas? Help! Please send comments to jcooney@zd.com. Thanks. ....jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:40:03 GMT From: a.verbraeck@sepa.tudelft.nl (Dr. Alexander Verbraeck) Subject: CFP: European Simulation Symposium, Passau, Germany, October 1997 Organization: Delft University of Technology SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -- REVISED DEADLINES ESS'97 - 9TH EUROPEAN SIMULATION SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION SIMULATION IN INDUSTRY Passau, Germany, October 19-23, 1997 Organized and sponsored by: The Society for Computer Simulation International Hosted by: University of Passau. Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science For more information, see one of the Web pages: http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/conf/ess97/ http://www.sepa.tudelft.nl/~alexandv/scs/conf/ess97/ ======================================================================= SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM ======================================================================= The SCS European Simulation Symposium is in its 9th year, and usually has around 200 participants from all over the world and around 180 paper presentations. The proceedings of the conference is published both as a book and on CD-ROM. The 1997 European Simulation Symposium is divided into the following main parts: * scientific program * a professional exhibition and * an industrial program. The scientific program will bring together three main subconferences, each with several topics: * Simulation Methodology, * Simulation in Industry, * Simulation in Engineering. Papers are invited for presentation at the conference and for publication in the conference proceedings on the subjects as stated below. For more detailed information concerning major topics of each of the three conferences, or if you want to contact any of the program chairs of the subconferences, please see below. General Chair: Winfried Hahn University of Passau, D-94030 Passau, Germany Tel: ++49 851 509 3050, Fax: ++49 851 509 3042 email: hahn@fmi.uni-passau.de General Program Chair: Axel Lehmann University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, D-85579 Neubiberg, Germany Tel: ++49 89 6004 2648, Fax: ++49 89 6004 3560 email: Lehmann@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de URL: http://www.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de/inst4/lehmann/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++ INVITED KEYNOTE SPEECH ++++++++++++++++++++++ DESIGN CONCEPTS for WEB-ENABLED SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS presented by: Guiseppe Iazeolla, Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Rome, Italy ++++++++++++++++++++++ SIMULATION METHODOLOGY ++++++++++++++++++++++ Program Chair: Wolfgang Borutzky Cologne Politechnic, Am Sandberg 1, D-51643 Gummersbach, Germany Tel.: ++49 2261 81 96 411, Fax: ++49 2261 8195 15 email: wolfgang.borutzky@uni-koeln.de with Subgroups: - Object-Oriented Simulation - Simulation Environments and Tools - Automated Modeling, Graphical Modeling, Equations Generation, Reusable Models - Advanced Modeling and Simulation Environments and Tools - Hierarchical Multiphysical Domain System Modeling - Combined Continuous - Discrete Event System Modeling - Distributed & Parallel System Simulation - Analytical & Numerical Methods, DAE-Systems - Validation & Verification Methods - Qualitative Modeling - Animation, Virtual Reality, VRML ++++++++++++++++++++++ SIMULATION IN INDUSTRY ++++++++++++++++++++++ Program Chair: Hans Ziegler University of Passau, D-94030 Passau, Germany Tel: ++49 851 509 2450, Fax: ++49 851 509 2452 email: ziegler@uni-passau.de with Subgroups: - Simulation in Manufacturing - Simulation in CIM & CAD - Simulation in Logistics - Simulation in Business - Simulation in Economy +++++++++++++++++++++++++ SIMULATION IN ENGINEERING +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Program Chair: F.-J. Rammig Uni-GH Paderborn, Fuerstenallee 11, D-33102 Paderborn, Germany Tel: ++49 5251 60 6500, Fax: ++49 5251-60-6502 email: franz@uni-paderborn.de with Subgroups: - Simulation in Biomedicine - Simulation in Computer Design - Simulation in Telecommunication - Simulation in Electrical Engineering - Simulation in Energy System - Simulation in Power Plants +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ An exhibition will be held in the central area connecting the lecture halls where all participants meet for coffee and tea. There will be a special exhibition section for universities and non-profit organisations, and a special section for publishers and commercial stands. If you would like to take part in this exhibition please contact the Exhibition Chair for a full price schedule and stand layout. Chair: Ellen Walther-Klaus Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyst AG., Postfach 401220 D-80712 Muenchen, Germany Tel:++49 89 3601 1125 Fax: ++49 89 3601 1105 email: ewalther@horus.mch.sni.de +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Program Chair: Agostino G. Bruzzone ITIM, University of Genoa, via C.Colombo 68/3 I-17019 Varazze (SV), Italy Tel: ++39 19 97398, Fax: ++39 19 97600 email: bruzzone@linux.it For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact SCS Inter- national at the European Office. Special sessions well be set up for vendor presentations in coordination with the scientific program +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + TUTORIALS / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The first day of the Symposium, several Tutorials or Professional Development Seminars will be offered for all participants of the Symposium on "hot" topics like: - Java and its potential for simulation - Simulation on the internet - Problem-solving with knowledge-based simulation Other topics and tutorial proposals should be submitted to the General Program Chair before June 30 th. ======================================================================== DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS ======================================================================== FULL PAPERS (5-8 pages) or EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (3 pages or more) or SHORT PAPERS (2-3 pages) should be submitted in quadruplicate and sent in printed form or via E-mail (in ASCII, rtf, Tex or LaTex, uuencoded, zipped, binhexed (the latter 3 only for Word and WP for Windows 95) to Philippe Geril, SCS European Office, University of Ghent Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Tel (Office): ++32 9 2337790, Fax: ++32 9 2234941 Tel.+Fax(Private): ++32 59 800 804 email: philippe.geril@rug.ac.be During review, the submitted FULL PAPERS or EXTENDED ABSTRACTS can be accepted by the programme committee, as either an extended (8 pages) paper if excellent, or as a regular (6 pages) paper. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. It is also possible to submit a SHORT PAPER to the conference. Short papers should also be structured as a scientific paper and will be refereed by the Program Committee, but the rules are applied less strict. Short papers are an ideal outlet for current research or industrial applications. Short papers usually do not appear in the main volume of the conference proceedings. Presentation time is a little shorter than that of full papers. In short: - Submit a FULL PAPER -> can be accepted as regular or extended paper - Submit an EXTENDED ABSTRACT -> usually accepted as regular paper - Submit a SHORT PAPER -> can only be accepted as short paper All submissions, written in English, must clearly indicate the name, affiliation, address, phone number and email address of the primary authors. They must clearly state what is new and point out significant results. In case of multi-authors, one author should be identified as the corresponding author for the paper. Only original papers which have not previously been published elsewhere will be accepted. Full papers or extended abstracts due: June 15, 1997 Short papers due: July 1, 1997 Acceptance Notification: July 25, 1997 Full camera ready copies due: September 5, 1997 OTHER REMARKS ============= Authors are expected to register early (at a reduced fee) and to attend the conference at their own expense to present their accepted papers. Without early registration and payment, the paper will not be published in the Conference Proceedings. Each registration covers only 1 paper. Along with the letter of acceptance, an author kit with complete instructions for preparing a camera-ready copy for the Proceedings will be sent to authors of accepted papers. The camera-ready copy is due in printed form or via E-mail (in rtf, Tex or LaTex, uuencoded, zipped, binhexed (the latter 3 only for Word and WP for Win95). The final manuscript for extended papers are expected to be 8 pages long whereas the regular papers are approximately 6 pages long. Short papers are at most 5 pages but do not appear in the official proceedings. In order to guarantee a high-quality conference, the extended and regular papers will be reviewed to check whether the suggestions of the program committee have been incorporated. Language The official conference and the language of accepted papers will be English. State of The Art Reviews or Panel Discussions If you plan to a give state-of-the-art review or to organize a panel discussion, then please contact the European Simulation Office. Best Paper Award The 1997 European Simulation Symposium will award the best papers, one in each track. From these papers the best overall paper will be chosen. The overall best paper will be awarded a free registration for an SCS conference. LOCAL ORGANIZATION ================== Silvia Hurt University of Passau, D-94030 Passau, Germany Tel: ++49 851 509 3053, Fax: ++49 851 509 3042 email: hurt@fmi.uni-passau.de ======================================================================== REGISTRATION ======================================================================== Registration Fees Author SCS / Eurosim Members Other Particip. ======================================================================== Pre-registration 16000 BEF 16000 BEF 18000 BEF before Sept 5th, 97 (800 DM) (800 DM) (900 DM) ======================================================================== Registration after Pre-registration 18000 BEF 20000 BEF Sept 5th, 1997 required (900 DM) (1000 DM) ======================================================================== MEETINGS ======== User Group meetings for simulation languages and tools can be organised on Monday. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact the Conference Chairmen. We will be happy to provide a meeting room and other necessary equipment. VENUE ===== Passau is sometimes referred to as the Venice of Germany, because of its location on the confluence of three rivers, the Ilz, the Inn, and the Danube. Attributed to a statement by Alexander von Humboldt, Passau is one of the seven most beautiful towns in the world. CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS ====================== Philippe Geril, SCS European Office, University of Ghent Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Tel (Office): ++32 9 2337790, Fax: ++32 9 2234941 Tel.+Fax(Private): ++32 59 800 804 email: philippe.geril@rug.ac.be ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V17 #138 ******************************