From editor@telecom-digest.org Fri Oct 1 18:04:37 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) id i91M4b011274; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:04:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:04:37 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200410012204.i91M4b011274@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #462 TELECOM Digest Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:05:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 462 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Mount St. Helens Erupts After 18 Years (Lisa Minter) Book Review: "Biometrics for Network Security", Paul Reid (Rob Slade) Vonage(R) Upgrades Local Unlimited Calling Plan to Premium (Decker-VOIP) Re: Lawsuit in Colorado Over Rerouted 911 (Rick Merrill) Re: Wrong Address for Caller a Tragic Ordeal (Isaiah Beard) Re: Can Anyone Recommend a Pay as You Go Cell Phone? (Ed Fortmiller) Re: WWW Founder was Re: WWW Ten Years Old in 2004 (Graeme Thomas) Re: Lucent DSL 20 Packet Loss (Daniel Eyholzer) Re: Paper Tape Technology (AES) Recording Industry Sues 762 for Net Music Swaps (Lisa Minter) Iraq Mobile Network Brings Benefits and Bombs (Lisa Minter) Patton Adds FXO to SmartNode(TM) VoIP Solutions (Chris) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome. We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lisa Minter Subject: Mount St. Helens Erupts After 18 Years Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:11:57 EDT [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: As this issue of the Digest was being edited and getting ready for release, the thing everyone has been expecting for several days finally happened: Mount St. Helens blew her stack, spewing ashes and hot lava everywhere in the vicinity of Vancouver, WA. The seismic activity in California over the past few days was a good indicator something was about to happen. Officially, I guess, the eruption started at 12:45 PM Pacific time, and lasted about 30 minutes before she quieted down. But ashes were still floating around in the air a few minutes ago. My thanks to Lisa for capturing this report from Yahoo for us. PAT] MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. - Mount St. Helens, the volcano that blew its top with cataclysmic force in 1980, erupted for the first time in 18 years Friday, belching a huge column of white steam and ash after days of rumblings. "This is exactly the kind of event we've been predicting," said U.S. Geological Survey scientist Cynthia Gardner. Still, the eruption was nowhere near what happened 24 years ago, when 57 people were killed and towns 250 miles away were coated with ash. About 20 minutes after Friday's eruption, the mountain calmed and the plume began to dissipate. The National Weather Service notified the Federal Aviation Administration in case planes needed to be rerouted. The steam cloud poured from the southern edge of a 1,000-foot-tall lava dome in the volcano's crater. Steam frequently rises from the crater, but the 8,364-foot peak had not erupted since 1986. For the past week, scientists have detected thousands of earthquakes of increasing strength as high as magnitude 3.3 suggesting another eruption was on the way. Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Rob Slade Organization: Vancouver Institute for Research into User Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:19:06 -0800 Subject: Book Review: "Biometrics for Network Security", Paul Reid Reply-To: rslade@sprint.ca BKBIOMNS.RVW 20040527 "Biometrics for Network Security", Paul Reid, 2004, 0-13-101549-4, U$44.99/C$67.99 %A Paul Reid %C One Lake St., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 %D 2004 %G 0-13-101549-4 %I Prentice Hall %O U$44.99/C$67.99 +1-201-236-7139 fax: +1-201-236-7131 %O http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131015494/robsladesinterne http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131015494/robsladesinte-21 %O http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131015494/robsladesin03-20 %P 252 p. %T "Biometrics for Network Security" In the preface, Reid presents biometrics as the cure for all network security ills. Given his employment, with a company that sells biometric systems, this enthusiasm is understandable, if not totally compelling. Part one deals with introduction and background. Chapter one is the introduction -- mostly to the book. The definition of biometrics itself is very terse. Authentication technologies are promised in chapter two -- which starts out by repeating the all-too-common error of confusing authentication with identification. Reid then pooh-poohs passwords and tokens and praises biometrics as strong authentication, without dealing with the fact that a biometric is the ultimate static password, or addressing the technologies (and associated error rates) needed to make biometrics a viable authentication factor. Privacy is confused with intellectual property, access control, and improper employee monitoring in chapter three. Part two lists biometric technologies. Chapter four is a disorganized amalgam of factors generally involved in biometric use and applications. Fingerprint features are reviewed in chapter five with incomprehensible explanations and unclear illustrations. Attacks against fingerprint technologies and systems are raised--but are usually dismissed in a fairly cavalier manner. Similar examinations are made of face (chapter six), voice (seven), and iris (eight) systems. Part three looks at implementing the technologies for network applications. Chapter nine compares the four biometrics from part two, in general terms, and states measures that are rather at odds with other biometric literature. Reid makes a big deal out of simple error rate metrics in chapter ten. Most of chapter eleven talks about hardening biometric devices and hardware. Unconvincing fictional "straw man" case studies and some general project planning topics are in chapter twelve, with more of the same in thirteen and fourteen. Part five, which is only chapter fifteen, casts a rosy-spectacled look at the future when all of security will be made perfect through the use of biometrics -- essentially returning us to the preface. Basically, this appears to be a promotional pamphlet padded out to book length: it isn't even as good as Richards' article in the "Information Security Management Handbook" (cf. BKINSCMH.RVW). The material will not help you with a realistic assessment of what biometrics can (and cannot) do, or how to implement it. The "Biometrics" text by Woodward, Orlans and Higgins (cf. BKBIOMTC.RVW) is far superior. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2004 BKBIOMNS.RVW 20040527 ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca rslade@sun.soci.niu.edu Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev or http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade ------------------------------ From: Jack Decker Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:49:19 -0400 Subject: Vonage(R) Upgrades Local Unlimited Calling Plan to Premium Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-01-2004/0002262771&STORY&EDATE= EDISON, N.J., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, the leading provider of broadband phone service in North America, announced today it will upgrade all customers on its Local Unlimited Plan, to Premium Unlimited, reducing the cost of unlimited calling throughout the US and Canada to $24.99 per month. "Over the past five months, we've noticed a trend in the industry away from calling certain minutes local and others long distance -- in an IP world distance is irrelevant, so we have changed our calling plans to reflect that," said Jeffrey A. Citron, Chairman and CEO of Vonage Holdings Corporation. "Instead of giving this great new upgrade to a small set of people, we decided to make it available to all of our customers and automatically upgrade those to the new price even if they're on the unlimited package already." In favor of a simplified pricing model, Vonage will now only offer two residential calling plans with the same great features for free: * $14.99/month -- Residential Basic Plan -- 500 minutes of local, toll and long distance calling throughout the United States and Canada. * $24.99/month -- Residential Premium Unlimited Plan -- unlimited calling throughout the 50 United States and Canada anytime, anywhere. * Services and hardware included for free on any of the above plans: * Voicemail * Call hunt * Caller ID * Call transfer * Call waiting * Repeat dialing * Call forwarding * Bandwidth saver * Call return (*69) * Area code selection * Caller ID block (*67) * International call block * Web-based account management * Motorola VT1005v device -- Real-time billing activity * Great international calling rates: -- Online voicemail retrieval -- Tel Aviv 4 cents per minute -- Real-time inbound/outbound -- London 3 cents per minute call record details -- Sydney 4 cents per minute "We don't call ourselves a phone company, because phone companies often treat their customers unfairly when it comes to new offerings, giving new customers the advantage over loyal ones," added Mr. Citron. "Vonage believes in rewarding our existing customers first, then making the plans available to new ones." Full press release at: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-01-2004/0002262771&STORY&EDATE= How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VoIPnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: VoIPnews-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------------ From: Rick Merrill Subject: Re: Lawsuit in Colorado Over Rerouted 911 Organization: Comcast Online Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:08:18 GMT Carl Moore wrote: > There are other readers more knowledgeable than I on this, but I have > learned of a lawsuit (by a woman in the Denver area) over a wrong > address for home telephone number. My local E911 dispatcher acknowledges that CallVantage will not give them the info needed to work with their equipment. In other words, although the land lines have E911, and cell phones are supposed to soon, VoIP does not have the capability and it is not on the horizon. Tony P. wrote: >> A dispatch center in Castle Rock, nearly 40 miles from her Adams >> County house, took the call, thinking she was calling from a business >> in Parker. As Staats bounced from dispatch center to dispatch center, >> trying to find the right people to help her, her baby boy's condition >> grew worse, and Staats grew more frantic. >> Finally, 5-month-old Christopher Vasquez stopped breathing, and Staats >> let out a piercing, terror-filled scream. He died moments later, >> shortly after an ambulance was dispatched -- a little over four minutes >> after Staats made her call. >> Now, Staats has sued her telephone company, Comcast, and two other >> companies, claiming that because they put the wrong address for her >> phone number into the 911 system, her son died that day in the spring >> of 2003. >> "Because Comcast had my address wrong in the system, I had to watch my >> son die," she said Wednesday at a news conference. > This is going to force VoIP carriers to figure out how to deal with 911 > routing in a big old hurry. > For the life of me, I cannot understand why they just can't use GPS and > then do a database dip to route to the correct entity. You must be thinking cellphone. But a telephone adapter (TA) for VoIP can be moved to another location, even across country, plugged into broadband and it should work. THe USER must access the company database and change their address. Even then it will not work the same way that cell phones work (or will work). But I certain agree that this problem needs to be solved and soon. - RM ------------------------------ From: Isaiah Beard Subject: Re: Wrong Address For 911 Caller a Tragic Ordeal Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:56:24 -0400 Tony P. wrote: > This is going to force VoIP carriers to figure out how to deal with 911 > routing in a big old hurry. > For the life of me, I cannot understand why they just can't use GPS and > then do a database dip to route to the correct entity. How would you propose installing a GPS device that works in determining the specific location of phone using Voice Over IP? With wireless you have a transceiver that is either outdoors and can 'see' GPS satellites, or is indoors but can be triangulated (we hope) from cellular base stations with known fixed locations. With VoIP on the other hand, I can plug the terminal into any number of ethernet ports, but most are indoors where GPS signals can't reach. E-mail fudged to thwart spammers. Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply. ------------------------------ From: Ed Fortmiller Subject: Re: Can Anyone Recommend a "Pay as You Go" Economy Cell Phone? Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:06:50 -0400 I don't know if Verizon covers California, if so they have a prepaid plan. First minute is 35 cents and each additional is 10 cents/min. Minimum purchase is $15. http://www.verizonwireless.com - under "plans" select PrePay. Ed Fortmiller | RUBBISHef24u@fortmiller.us | Hudson MA * To avoid getting a lot of SPAM junk mail, I have altered my REPLY-TO * address. PLEASE remove the leading "RUBBISH" from my REPLY address. * Any Email sent to the address without removing "RUBBISH" will * automatically be discarded without me even seeing it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 21:06:54 +0100 From: Graeme Thomas Subject: Re: WWW Founder, was: WWW is Ten Years Old in 2004 In article , John Levine writes: > That would be Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He was made Knight Commander of > the Order of the British Empire earlier this year. This summer his > wife told me some amusing stories of trying to fit a trip back home to > get the award into Tim's overcrammed schedule. > R's, > John > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I believe Queen Elizabeth awarded him > the Knighthood on January 1, did she not? PAT] [ PAT: Please remove my address, in the unlikely event you want to publish this. It's a bit off-topic for telecomms. ] Awards and titles are announced twice a year: once on New Year's Day, and again on the Queen's (official) birthday. Those people awarded the honours can pick them up whenever convenient. I'm not sure when Sir Tim managed to find the time. I believe that people are not supposed to use the title until it has been awarded, but this nicety is often overlooked by the media. In practice people are informed, in confidence, about the award a few weeks before it happens. That gives them time to turn it down, without any publicity. Graeme Thomas ------------------------------ From: Daniel Eyholzer Subject: Re: Lucent DSL MAX 20 Packet Loss Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:41:09 +0200 whoward@piv27.cns.ualberta.ca (Walt Howard) wrote: > Are you sure that both the switch and the DSL box agree on the > duplex-ness of the connection between them? Having one believe the > connection is full-duplex and the other believe that it is > half-duplex can cause the symptom you report. Thanks a lot for your reply, Walt! After setting the switch ports on which the DSL boxes are connected to half duplex, it seems that the packet loss does not occur anymore, but the CRCs on the Cisco switch are still constantly increasing. It would be nice if I could find the cause for this CRCs too. Any idea what it could be? Daniel ------------------------------ From: AES/newspost Subject: Re: Paper Tape Technology Was: What is the Name of #? Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:40:17 -0700 In article , John Levine wrote: > Yeah, really. Gates' year at Harvard was in the early 1970s when, as > someone else noted, Harvard undergrads did most of their computing on > a PDP-11 Unix system in the Harvard Science Center. (I visited > Harvard for some early usenix meetings and played with it myself.) > Aiken's early Harvard University computer facility was in the 1940s > and 1950s. By the 1970s, Aiken was long since retired, his computers > were in the Smithsonian, Harvard had named the comp sci building after > him, and the CS department was using a PDP-10. > As others have noted, Traf-O-Data was back home in Seattle, not at > Harvard. There are clearly a few significant differences between the statements in this message and in John's earlier message, and those in my original post and the longer reply message I recently posted. I tend to believe that the various details I posted about the Gates/Traf-O-Data/Harvard relationship, as told to me by the fellow undergraduate who was there at the time, are probably correct. Neither John Levine nor I seem to be know for certain whether Gates processed traffic counter tapes using computer facilities in the Aiken Computation Laboratory (which was definitely still functioning when Gates was there), or in the much newer Harvard Science Center (or perhaps even not at all). Perhaps others will know. Over and out on this topic ... ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Subject: Recording Industry Sues 762 for Net Music Swaps Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:36:04 EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A recording-industry trade group said on Thursday it had filed a new round of lawsuits against 762 people it suspects of distributing its songs for free over Internet "peer to peer" networks like Kazaa and eDonkey. The Recording Industry Association of America has now sued roughly 5,400 people over the past year in an effort to discourage the online song copying that it believes has cut into CD sales. "We want music fans to enjoy music online, but in a fashion that compensates everyone who worked to create that music," RIAA said. Among those sued were students at 26 different colleges and universities, where the prevalence of high-speed networks and cash-poor music fans has led to an explosion of peer-to-peer traffic. Under pressure from the RIAA, many schools have taken steps to limit file sharing and at least 20 schools give students free access to industry-sanctioned download services like Roxio Inc.'s web site. The RIAA does not yet know the names of those it has sued, only the numerical addresses used by their computers. The trade group typically finds out suspects' identities from their Internet service providers during the legal proceedings. In addition to those sued anonymously, the RIAA said it had sued 68 defendants whose identities had been discovered and who had declined offers to settle. The RIAA typically settles copyright-infringement suits for around $5,000 each. Though the recording industry has successfully sued thousands of individuals, it has had less luck with the peer-to-peer networks themselves. Courts so far have held that networks cannot be held liable because, like VCR makers, they do not commit copyright infringement but merely make it possible. The RIAA has pushed Congress to lower that standard. A bill currently being considered in the Senate would hold liable anyone who "induces" others to reproduce copyrighted material. Objections by librarians, conservative groups and the technology industry have prevented the bill from advancing so far, but Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch said earlier Thursday that he would take it up again next week. The RIAA represents the world's largest record labels, such as Warner Music, EMI Group Plc, Bertelsmann AG Universal, others. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner, in this instance, Reuters News Service and Yahoo News.. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You know what is really scary about this demand by the RIAA is its intent to go after the folks who 'induce' or 'encourage' illegal copying, and if that provision is resurrected (it was shot down once) then anyone who publishes anything which *possibly could be illegal* can get in trouble also if they do not make sure everything in their collection is not absolutely legal. Reasoning is they 'encouraged' it or 'facilitated' it. If I have a copy machine here which is not monitored constantly (and what library does that?) then did the librarian 'induce' someone to make an illegal copy? Am I supposed to carefully inspect and evaluate everything published here in the Digest, lest I be put on trial for 'inducing' and 'faciliting' a copyright infringment? That would seem to be what RIAA is saying. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Subject: Iraq Mobile Network Brings Benefits and Bombs Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:39:18 EDT [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Here is another example of how technology gives, and technology takes away, as per the essay printed here last weekend from the 1991 conference. PAT] BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqis hail their mobile phone network as one of the few achievements in the country's reconstruction, but the technology is also being used to detonate bombs that cause daily death and destruction. Copying techniques employed by the attackers in the Madrid train bombings, the Bali bombings and recent blasts in Saudi Arabia, insurgents in Iraq are using mobile phones to set off car bombs and other explosions, U.S. officials and experts say. It is far from the only method being used, but since licenses were awarded to set up the mobile network a year ago, and mobile phones became ubiquitous accessories in Iraqi cities, the technique has become common and reliable. "There's definitely evidence that mobile phones are being used to detonate roadside bombs and car bombs," said David Claridge, a security specialist with the Risk Advisory Group who has worked in Iraq in recent months. "I wouldn't say it's the single biggest contributor to the bombings, but it's a technique that they're employing." Setting off a bomb using a mobile phone is fairly simple. A call to the phone generates an electronic pulse that sets off the detonator or closes a circuit, triggering the bomb. "It's not rocket science," John Pike of Globalsecurity.org, a Washington think-tank, was quoted as saying in a recent report by the U.S.-based Homeland Security Group. "Cellphone detonators are pretty straightforward tradecraft." DIFFICULT TO TRACE Not only are they straightforward, reliable and relatively cheap, but conditions in Iraq make them particularly attractive. Since the goal of the network was to provide service as quickly as possible, and make it accessible to as many people as possible, most subscribers use pay-as-you-go facilities, which make the individuals very difficult to trace. Even if a call was made from one mobile phone to another to set off a bomb, telecoms experts question whether Iraqi operators would be capable of tracking the call quickly enough to help U.S. troops and Iraqi police hunt down the perpetrators. "With most Western mobile networks, it would be possible for intelligence agents to trace the call, or at least identify all calls made to that number at that time," said a London-based forensic security expert who asked not to be named. "I'm not familiar with Iraq, but I can imagine that it would be more difficult to do such a thing there given the security situation and other limitations." While Iraqis may face greater danger now that they have a mobile phone network, security consultants say that's just a fact of life -- the technology brings benefits as well as risks and everyone in the world is potentially threatened. "To deny access to mobile telecommunications at this stage would be counterproductive," said Claridge. "If insurgents in Iraq can't use mobile phones, they'll find something else." Still, U.S. troops have clamped down on mobile phone use at bomb sites to prevent follow-up blasts, the sort of attack that may have been used to kill 34 children in Baghdad on Thursday. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner, Reuters News Service and Yahoo News.. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Chris Subject: atton Adds FXO to SmartNode(TM) VoIP Solutions Date: 1 Oct 2004 12:44:53 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com New FXO Analog Telephony Interfaces for Patton SmartNodes Enable True VoIP-to-PSTN Access While Eliminating Telephone Charges GAITHERSBURG, Maryland - Patton Electronics--an industry leader in access, connectivity and VoIP--announces new additions to their SmartNode(TM) family of VoIP Gateways and Routers. The new SmartNode models feature FXO and FXS/FXO telephony interface combinations that enable direct connection to a PBX or PSTN. "Our customers are asking for solutions that integrate seamlessly with their existing communications infrastructure to deliver end-to-end voice services over an IP network," said Scott Whittle, Director of Product Management at Patton." With SmartNode and FXO, network administrators can preserve their existing legacy telephone equipment and services while leveraging VoIP to lower operating costs and achieve voice-data convergence." Any enterprise with a legacy analog PBX can connect SmartNode FXO ports to their PBX and the local PSTN, thus reaping the benefits of VoIP without costly PBX replacement or upgrades. The PBX can then securely route calls through the Internet or corporate IP network to any analog phone or fax. Routing voice and data through a single network enables companies to consolidate communications infrastructures, thereby reducing equipment, cabling, and network administration costs. Meanwhile, employees working at remote IP endpoints (for instance, those teleworking from home) can take advantage of all the PBX features (voice-mail, 3-digit dialing, conference calls, etc.) provided at the corporate headquarters. FXO, FXS, and FXS/FXO interface combinations are now available on a wide range of models within the SmartNode 4520 Series. All SmartNode ToIP Gateway Routers support SIP and H.323 VoIP signaling, T.38 Fax-over-IP, a full set of codecs, IP routing with NAT, Firewall, PPP, PPPoE, VLAN, Frame-Relay, DHCP and DynDNS, plus a full suite of upstream and downstream QoS (Quality of Service) features to prioritize traffic for enhanced voice quality. Available software options offer IPSec DES/3DES/AES) VPN and Q.SIG support. About the SmartNode Family of VoIP Gateway Routers The SmartNode family of VoIP gateways and routers offer compact-desktop and modular-chassis solutions for provider and enterprise voice and data applications. The SmartNode 1000 and 4520 series SOHO and branch office IADs support one or two ISDN BRI So ports or 2-8 analog ports as well as a full-featured QoS VPN Router. The modular 19" SmartNode 2300 series are designed for medium and large enterprise applications featuring on-board LAN and WAN interfaces and a range of PMC based voice interface cards/expansion modules. Interface cards provide flexible port configurations for ISDN, T1, E1, PRI, BRI and FXS. The SmartNode 2400 series supports up to 96/120 Voice-over-IP connections in a single 1U 19" chassis. About Patton Patton Electronics Company is a US manufacturer and marketer of data communications products, including VoIP/ToIP gateways & routers, Remote Access (V.92, V.90, K56Flex, V.34+, and ISDN dial-in), Last Mile/Local Loop Access (T1, E1, and xDSL modems, NTUs and CSU/DSUs), Multi-Service Access (voice, intranet, extranet, and Frame Relay access), and Connectivity (interface converters, short range modems, multiplexers, and surge protectors). Patton Electronics Company 7622 Rickenbacker Drive Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA Tel: (301) 975-1000 Fax: (301) 869-9293 Email: marketing@patton.com http://patton.com ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V23 #462 ******************************