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Telecomm Industry Links  :  Amazing place to visit.

It's really annoying, I've literally hundreds of broken links in the broadband section. Doesn't help that BT mothballed all the early news and whitepapers either. *mutter*

BRITISH TELECOMM

NEWS RELEASE February 3, 1999 - BT invests in the future with new UK and European networks
New investment will support explosion in demand for data and multimedia services (Broken link)

BT ADSL Trials - West London - 1999 (dead link)

BT ADSL White paper - Word document (dead link)

BT's response (now a broken link)   to   UK DTI Green Paper Regulating Communications
Appendix 1 - The Developing Technologies of the Knowledge-Driven Economy (broken too)

BT's Regulary response - General Comments (now a broken link)
BT Business Rates
Success in Internet time (broken)
BT response to regulatory documents (1998) (now a boken link)
Multimedia on the Move - BT response (broken link) to Government Consultative Document: Published by the DTI in July 1997 2.
News Release February 10, 1998 - BT takes further steps towards the Information Superhighway (broken link)

BT business review (now broken link) includes the following extracts:

"Much of our current network investment is focused on the ways that technology can make our existing network investment carry all the latest services by - for example - delivering video services over the existing copper network. This will enable us to provide new services at the most affordable price.

BT is carrying out trials of ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber loop) technology, which uses compression techniques to increase the capacity of a phone line 30-fold, giving high-speed Internet access, TV-quality video and CD-quality audio.

Variants on this theme are also in development, including the highly economical DSL Lite and the more expensive VDSL.

BT Business statement. Part of long report on (by) BT - little ADSL but heavy breakdown on spending, etc etc. (broken link)

BT News Release Sept 25th '97 - BT invites service providers to join next phase in development of interactive service network (ISN) (Broken).

Employee award for ADSL Filters - 1996 (now a broken link)

News Release - Interactive TV - technical notes (circa 1995) (broken)

Commercialising the Superhighway by Peter Cochrane (Head of Research at BT Laboratories)
Word document - made good reading... (From March 1995) (dead link)

So what is the Information Superhighway? by Peter Cochrane (Head of Research at BT Laboratories)
Word document - made good reading... (From April 1995) (also dead)

Broadband multimedia delivery over copper. Possibly a definative guide (Definitely a broken link now!)

[ www.labs.bt.com ] BT Laboratories Delivering the Future - a top telco development laboratory.

KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS (HULL)

Kingston Communications (PLC)

Kingston Communications (Ltd)

ADSL vision statement (8th/Dec/98) (link gone)

Extracts:-
Kingston Internet General Manager Anita Pace said: "We're the first UK internet service provider to offer a commercial ADSL-based service.
Kingston Communications launches what is believed to be Europe's first commercial "fast internet" service using the latest ADSL technology.

PACIFIC BELL

Now known as SBC
www.pacbell.com (DSL faq gone)   DSL diagram (gone)

Other useful Telecommunications sites...

British Approvals Board for Telecommunications

Department of Trade & Industry

Institute for Global Communications

NB: These are not a "Telecommunications site" in the sense of being a site discussing telecommunications technology (they're a site providing Web pages and other Internet connectivity for various social-democratic organizations).

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Office of Telecommunications (Oftel)

The National Integrated Services Digital Network Council (NIC), a forum for advancing the use of ISDN technology, today (17.2.99) announced their endorsement of the Telco Express website. This website, provided by Telco Express LLC, - Fairfax, VA , contains valuable nationwide information on ISDN services offered by the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) and other major Local Exchange Carriers (LECs). Telco Express allows World Wide Web users to easily find pricing and availability information for ISDN anywhere in the United States, based simply on the user's telephone number.
© Telechoice (17.2.99) (Link to article dead)

Telephone Company CPI Comparisons Website

Telecom Managers Association (dead and gone)

(To become an "Affiliate of the TMA" you must have some responsibility for telecommunications or information systems and/or demonstrate a strong interest in the advancement of telecommunications and information services and the application of information technology to achieve business advantage. He/she must be at least 21 and of good education.)

Also, for those interested in regulation of xDSL:

FCC - re Common Carriers (1999)

Oftel on competition (Dec 98) (broken)   -   and responses (also broken link)

Access Network and Regulatory Measures - a study by OVUM (Dec 98) - dead link)

From: Arno Wirzenius, Telecoms consultant. ( Visit )

Alcatel - White paper on ADSL a broken link

Cable Modems

http://ww.dslprime.com - DSL Prime - another goods news site bites the dead link dust!

Internet Telephony

ISP lists

News.com - Covad debuts high-speed access (1997 news-bite)

News.com - DSL firm takes fast road to IPO ( 1997 news-bite)

Replay TV

Tariff . net

Telecommunications Magazine
Includes Telecommunications Online Email Newsletter recipient list

Telechoice - xDSL news
NB: Don't join the email group unless you are REALLY interested in ADSL technology

Telecom Tom - The Veda Home Company, Bowling Green, OH 43402

SERIOUSLY worth a visit, especially for his white paper report.
"We're making an inventory of online (web accessible) manuals, guides, tutorials, articles and other discussions of ADSL "routers" and directly related topics. Documentation could be of any degree of generality or difficulty. Definitions and categorizations of the hardware/software are also sought. In particular, how do vendors and standards groups define "ADSL router"?
Also, we'd like references to specific protocol standards that the router equipment and software use. State-transition matrices from vendors or standards groups are especially valuable at this point.
[ ~ Tom Scott ]

Telephony World

"How is the telephone going to change in the next few years? How will Internet phones be used? I think we've only begun to see the power of global communications. If you want to follow what's happening with computer telephony and the Communications industry, I suggest you visit TelephonyWorld. Learn about the technology, the trends, specific telephony products, end-user and corporate solutions, and (quite a bit) more. I've yet to find a more comprehensive (and well designed) resource online."
(Extract from a Lockergnome newsletter)

Unmetered.org
(access in the UK ) - their links page.

Universal ADSL Working Group (uawg.com) - gone! What a shame

www.vdsl.org - VDSL - it WAS 'the' web site for the VDSL coalition. (Dead link)

VIRTUAL LIBRARY - AWESOME and then some!

ZDNET news - BT vs Nortel

ZDNET news - Nortel

MISC

Catalogue of UK 'super-highway' projects (BT - Dead link)
BT and Video on demand (dead link)

Telecommunications Magazine, Steve Broadhead, April 30, 1999

The modem is not dead. This might be an obvious statement to make but it is contrary to the headlines of many articles over recent years. These headlines were usually written in relation to a competing technology, such as X.25 or ISDN, and the effects it would surely have on the modem's chances of survival. Yet -- thanks largely to the Internet -- the modem is still around and in larger numbers than ever. So what are the chances of yet another technology, DSL or digital subscriber line, eating into the market share of the modem?

Are vendors and service providers really positioning DSL as an ISDN or digital satellite alternative? Or is it simply another excuse not to lay more fibre in the ground? (Link to complete article dead)


Wanadoo - info about the local loop technologies and markets in Europe and elsewhere.


xDSL-related articles for Feb 03, 1999

OFTEL are accountable to you and me, and I suggest that that is no longer a platitude. At long, long last they seem to be realising that addressing everything they do to the telecommunications industry and nobody else is not enough. (Link to related story gone)


For good pointers for market share information on DSLAMs visit:
ISG Telecom and go to the DSL Sourcebook on the bottom of the homepage


Re: Product Idea: DSL Extender *DSLong*

DSLong exists. It is called NGDLC - Next Generation Digital Loop Carriers

These are fed with fiber or copper and support a remote DSLAM.
Some vendors call these RAM (Remote Access Multiplexer) -- or miniRAM.

Checkout NGDLC at these vendors:

Fiber
Relte Corp
Pulse
NLC
Siemens

( From Peter Macaulay of ex of Mindspring )


Consultronics make copper loop simulators and DSL standards testing equipment.

Clic Instruments Ltd. supply DSL test sets


THE TELECHOICE xDSL ATLAS (1999) - A ROADMAP TO DSL SOLUTIONS.

"Now available--the 1999 TeleChoice xDSL Atlas! This source book provides updated information on DSL technology, market dynamics and key players. It’s a complete market compendium and a follow-up to The TeleChoice 1996 xDSL Sourcebook, the first definitive guide to xDSL. Users, equipment vendors and service providers will all find critical information on this dynamic market, including:

• An introduction to the xDSL marketplace including trends and changes
• Analysis of key xDSL industry drivers
• A summary of service deployment projections
• Profiles of hundreds of companies, with voice, fax and email contact information.

To order your own copy of the TeleChoice xDSL Atlas ....

Of course that was years ago. I presume the still publish something similiar.

GEORGE GILDER AND LOU DOBBS TO TAKE CENTER STAGE AMONG INDUSTRY LEADERS TO EXAMINE THE FUTURE IMPACT OF HIGH- SPEED BANDWIDTH
Esteemed industry visionaries George Gilder and Lou Dobbs will share the spotlight with respected industry leaders to examine the future of high- bandwidth networking at Broadband Year 99, July 12-16, 1999 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
(Link to full story dead).


Aware - "The source for DSL technology"

Analogs - "World leader in signal processing solutions"



"You can get a recent draft of ANSI T1E1 (the text resulting from resolving comments on the T1 default letter ballot of T1.413 Issue 2) via" : Standards Committee T1 Telecommunications

(From 1999, ftp to pdf is now link-dead)


"Additionally, you may wish to check out information on the international standards activities within the ITU related to ADSL. G.lite, or G.992.2, is now a global standard for ADSL. The ITU-T ADSL drafts of G992.1, G992.2, G994.1, G995.1, G996.1 and G997.1 for those who do not have access to the ITU site can now be accessed at the DSL Forum



They are also available on the ITU informal web site:
(You need to have an ITU TIES account to access.)

CLEC resources:
CLEC Resource .com
saveCompetition - focusing on public policy issues facing CLEC's

Tariffing information for the ILEC's with respect to ADSL