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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Information Transmittal No. 17
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Released December 30, 1987
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Featuring:
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Exposition / Author's Note (sr ;34-48)
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IBM Pledges Support for ISDN If World Standards Are Set (i.w;68)
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FCC Documents VIA General Electric Net (i.w;90)
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D&B Enforces Restrictions of Dialog On-Line Subscribers (i.w;104)
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Board Allows Remote PC User From Phone (i.w;121)
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Genie OnLine Service Cuts 2400 bps Rates (i.w;146)
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FCC Crackdown Causing Far East PC Vendors to Meet Regulations (i.w;164)
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The Last Visit From Officials (ts;180)
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Communication Networks Conference And Exposition (ltr;1\1\88;227)
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by The Sensei
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Exposition: TSR
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Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide
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information to The Syndicate Report. Articles/Information may be provided
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through TSR Newsline (see below), via voice VMS System. Any info such as
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Busts, Phreaking, Hacking, Data / TeleCommunications, and new developments
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on any the previous mentioned specialities will be: accepted, labeled, and
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given full actual credit by the article/info provider(s), or writer(s). --
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All articles have been presented by me unless shown at the end of the
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article as the information provider(s), or writer(s).
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Author's Note: TSR
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Welcome! I bet many of you wonder where the hell the Report has been,
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or me for that matter. Most of you had suspected it was a legal problems,
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since just before I left for a couple months I noted that a psuedo 411 service
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sent over some people to find out what they could do about me using their
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computer systems, VMS. TSR #16 Part 2 outlines most of that. The Last Visit
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I got will be in this file as usual.
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Again I wasn't sure if I should contunie releasing Syndicate Reports.
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But once in a while I get the free time, and it's my choice what I do with it.
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I still accept articles and news if you can get them to me. I am not going LD
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as much as due to the legal attention. 2 Other files should accompany this
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one. The second part of 3rd Party Fraud, and bibliographic story entitled
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"I'm not a Crook." Expect of of the two or both out soon.
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Once again, enjoy TSR #17. And Happy New Year!
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IBM PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR ISDN IF WORLD STANDARDS ARE SET: TSR
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Research Triangle Park, NC -- IBM Corp. left little doubt of its commitment
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to a worldwide Integrated Systems Digital Network (ISDN) but said it won't
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continue to participate if the world can't agree on stanards.
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"We have strong intent and desire for ISDN to be a reality," said Len
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Felton, the IBM Communications Products Division's director of quality and
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general development. He noted that much work remains to be done by
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participants in the Consultative Committee on International Telephony and
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Telegraphy (CCITT), which is trying to formulate standards that would permit
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the world's telephone systems to communicate digitally.
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The US telephone system will not be a stumbling clock to a digital
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phone network, said Felton. He said that IBM's independent research shows that
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by 1989 enough digital equipment and switches will be installed to provide
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connections to most of the country. Standards should be wil enough ironed out
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by that time to being widespread use of ISDN, he said. The company is
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currently involved in several field trials in the United States and Europe.
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FCC DOCUMENTS VIA GENERAL ELECTRIC NET:
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GE Information Services is now carrying the National On-Line Regulatory
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Access database of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) textual material.
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The service, which costs 100$ per hour at 1200 baud plus a one-time charge of
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190$, consists of the FCC Daily Digest and FCC Library, which includes the
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complete text of comments, orders, letters, motions, and petitions, GE said.
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GE Info. Services (800) 433-3683
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::::Information Provided by Dana Digital::::
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D&B ENFORCES RESTRICTIONS OF DIALOG ON-LINE SUBSCRIBERS:
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New York -- Dun & Bradstreet last week stated that it will continue to
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ban certain subscribers from its financial databases available on-line via
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Dialog Information Services.
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After examining the facts of the case, in which Dialog users had been
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denied access to Dun's Financial Records, D&B now intends to enforce it's
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policy. "We will continue to deny access to financial business and credit
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services for unauthorized persons or organizations," said Bill Doescher, VP of
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public relations and advertising for Dun & Bradstreet. Dun's Financial
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Records contains financial information on privately held companies that fear
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the information could be used by labor unions against them when negotiating on
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behalf of employees.
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BOARD ALLOWS REMOTE PC USER FROM PHONE:
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BCB Electronic Sales has announced Tone-Talker TT-100, and IBM PC--
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compatible multilayered board that provides communications via Touch Tone
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phones. TT-100 allows a touch tone telephone to interact with any commercially
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available program, the company said. Included resident software coverts Touch
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Tones into commands as though the PC keyboard. Using this system, remote
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users can communicate with a PC without a modem, using the phone keypad for
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input and receiving voice responses from the TT-100.
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The TT-100 features defitiezed voice record and playback, text-to-speech
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voice syntehsis, and call forwarding. Applications of the product include
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voice messaging, remote data entry, sales query, order entry systems, machines
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control systems, customer response systems, and telemarketing.
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The 995$ TT-100 is programmed using MS-DOS' batch file language. It can
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interface with digital phone systems, PBXes, two-way radio, and cellular
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phones.Other features include a dual mcicroprocessor, a 300/600 bps modem, an
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acoustic coupler, and autodialer, and a 4-line-by-2 character LED display.
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BCB Elec. Sales, Tampa Florida (813) 931-3582.
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::::Information Provided by Brew::::
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GENIE ONLINE SERVICE CUTS 2400 BPS RATES:
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Effective last month, the cost of the 2400 bps Genie Online Service
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from GE Information Services has been cut from 15$ to 12.50$ during non-prime
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time. At 300 or 1200 bps, Genie costs 5$ per hour for non-prime time, which
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is between 6 pm and 8 am local time Monday through Fridat and all dat Saturday
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and Sunday, GE said.
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GE also gave 44 new cities local access to Genie. The company said the G
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GE Info. Services (800) 638-9636
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::::Information Provided by Unkown::::
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FCC CRACKDOWN CAUSING FAR EAST PC VENDORS TO MEET REGULATIONS:
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The FCC stringent crackdown on personal computers that give off
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excessive ratio signals has resulted in a unique statistic that proves it is
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better to do it right the first time. According to the FCC officials, on Far
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East vendor had to spend 30$ to retrofit each unit after being denied
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commission certification. However, new models that are designed to adhere to
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the FCC's regulatins cost only about 2$ more to manufacture than last year's
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models.
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Since the crackdown started, Far East companies have fallen in line
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behind the government's marketing and engineering standards and are doing a
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better job of meeting those standards, officials said.
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THE LAST VISIT FROM OFFICIALS:
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I'm not sure the exact date they came over, but anyways it went like
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this: Just after I put my cycle in the garage after school, a car pulls up.
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I didn't like the whole scene one bit. It was the same Edina Minnesota Cop
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that came to see me before about the Connection Breakin and a Secret Service
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Agent. I knew the cop, so he introduced me to the S.Service Man. I won't list
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any names. Well, they asked if they could step in my room and have a
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little chat of my cituation with the Connection and this other VMS system.
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They were much more concerned with the Connection since Silent Assault was
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busted on the same system. I think they thought it was sort of a big area for
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Phreak and Hack information to be exchange. Infact it was for a while, for
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Silent Assault and Me. But no major information on my part. Just Silent had
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all the dangerous information which brought him to his term in jail. (See
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transmittal #14 for article). All I ever used it for was voice and data
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message accounting. I did run a private system on one of the lines for a
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approximately a month, although it didn't last long with the busts happening.
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When we got in my room, they both took and seat and went right out to
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ask me what I knew. They asked me specific formulas to hacking into the VMS's
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and other systems locally. I only told them steps to the Connection systems
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since they could get the information on their own, or they knew it already.
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They asked me questions like if I had ever used illegal credit cards or codes
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lately. They knew I used MCI before, but that was long since a past habit.
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Also, they asked for programs that hack. I gave them the disks I had since I
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wouldn't need them. And in case I did need them, I could get them on any
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system. They also asked for printouts of the directories on the disks. This
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was no skin off my back so I cooperated. The whole time the SS Man took mega
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notes as if he was going to write a book when he retires. Retirment didn't
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seem to long off for this guy, so he was probably going to write a novel.
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All and all, it went well. I they explained that since I was so co-
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operative and such...that they'd try to get the charges dropped. Even if I did
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go to court, the judge could only slap my hand. Maybe a fine, but nothing
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too major with my record. Clean.
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I'll leave you with a bit of advise. If at all you meet up with
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authorities of most any type, try and cooperate with them. Do so just enough
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not to get anyone, including yourself, in any trouble. When being questioned,
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think fast what your going to say and reply quickly and clearly. They are
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experts on questioning and can tell if the BS is being shoveled. Don't worry
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about anything unless you know your up a creek. Just stay cool.
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-The Sensei, Syndicate Report Magazine
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COMMUNICATION NETWORKS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION:
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All tutorials held Monday, January 25, 1988.
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Hours: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
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Who should attend: Hackers in general
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Level of presentation: Intermediate
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T-1 Planning Integrated Corp. Networks
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I. Transmission Technologies
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Includes T1 networks for voice and data, private microwave, fiber optics,
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and satellites including VSATs.
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II. Integrated Network Architectures
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Important questions answered for planning of ISDN, users phasing in ISDN,
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how important ISDN is, and what about LANs for data access.
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Dr. John McQuillan, Pres., McQuillan Consulting, is one of the world's foremost
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authorities of telecommications networks. He began his work at Bolt, Beranek
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and Newman (BBN), where he developed many of the basic protocals for APRANET,
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the first packet switching network. Host.
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T-2 ISDN Standards, Products and Services
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I. ISDN Tech.
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Cocepts, Standards, and Status
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II. ISDN and Public Usage
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Trials, timetable for service offerings, international perspective.
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III. ISDN Private Networkings
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PBXs and Premises networking, integrated voice/data switches, and
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vendor plans.
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IV. Planning For ISDN
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Evaluating ISDN, critical decisions, smart moves today, and case studies
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from three large organizations.
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T-3 Intro. to Voice Communications and PBXs
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I. Introduction to voice
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II. Voice switching and transmission
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III. Voice digitization
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IV. Integrated voice and data
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V. All digital world
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VI. T-Carriers, multiplexors, ISDN
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VII. Digital PABX charactoristics and advantages
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IX. Who makes digital PABX
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X. Future trends in voice communications
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T-4 Designing Voice and Data Networks Under The New Tariffs
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I. The Environment
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The Breakup of the Bell System, LATA, Tariff Overview
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II. Federal Tariffs
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The WATS and DDD tariffs of AT&T, MCI, and US Sprint, The Issue of
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"Interstate Contamination."
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Dates: Tuesday, Jan. 26 -- Thursday, Jan 28, 1988
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Place: Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
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Leaders. 1-800 225-4698.
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TSR will accept additional sponsor/support Systems. If you have an
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interest in the Report, and wish to provide support to TSR -- Leave your BBS
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number and any other information to TSR VMS Lines listed above.
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Freeworld // 301-668-7657 : Brewery 314-394-8259 : Lunatic Labs 612-645-7132
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Realm of Reality 612-420-6486 : Osuny* 914-725-4060 : Exec. Inn 915-581-5145
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This concludes this Transmittal No. 17
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by The Sensei of The Syndicate Report
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Released December 30th, 1987
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