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[ D4RKCYDE ] yyyyyssssyyyy yyyyssssyyyy yyyy yyyy |lS$ yy $$ """" yy lS$ S$$ S$$$ $$$ S$$ssssyyyy :|lS$ ""yyyyy yyyyssss|lS$ lS$ lS$ yy$$$ lS$ yy lS$ :||lS$ $$$ :|lS yy :|lS |lS$ |lS$ $ yyyy |lS$ $ |lS$ :::|l ,$$$ ::|l $ ::|l :|lS :|lS $ :|lS :|lS $ :|lS ::::| $$$ :::| $ :::| ::|l ::|l $ ::|l ::|l $ ::|l .:::: ....... .:::....:::: .::| ..:|....:::| .::| .. .::| [ F41TH ISSUE 11: DECEMBER 1999 ] . . : | +-->--[ hybrid * http://www.f41th.co.uk +-->--[ jasun * http://hybrid.dtmf.org +-->--[ zomba * #darkcyde EFNET +-->--[ digiphreq * mailto: hybrid@f41th.co.uk +-->--[ downtime * mailto: hybrid@dtmf.org +-->--[ force * mailto: zomba@f41th.co.uk +-->--[ dynamics * mailto: submissions@f41th.co.uk +-->--[ bodie * +-->--[ microwire * +-->--[ shadowx * FIND US ON THE PSTN, B1TCH +-->--[ sintax * +-->--[ shylock * (C)D4RKCYDE 1997,98,99+ +-->--[ mata * | * +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | DEFINTLY NOT BABT APPROVED.. : . So close it has no boundaries... A blinking cursor pulses in the electric darkness like a heart coursing with phosphorous light, burning beneath the derma of black-neon glass. A PHONE begins to RING, we hear it as though we were making the call. The cursor continues to throb, relentlessly patient, until... o A balanced source of essential oday for optimum health. o Enriched with infoz, for maintaining healthy a lifestyle. DOSAGE ------ ADULTS AND KODE KIDDIES OVER 12: Swallow one article a day, preferably with a meal. FOR SAFETY ---------- Do not use if inner seal is broken. Do NOT exceed the recommended daily intake. STORE IN A COLD WET PLACE. THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS 0DAY WHICH, IF TAKEN IN EXCESS, MAY BE HARMFULL TO VERY YOUNG CHILDREN. KEEP OUT OF SIGHT AND REACH OF CHILDREN. Women who are pregnant or planning a preganancy should not take any any oday or infoz supplement without first consulting their doctor or clinic. BEST BEFORE END JAN 2000 INGREDIENTS: . : | +-> editorial <-+ hybrid +-- - - +-> bt system x local networks overview <-+ hybrid +-- - - +-> guide to the caribbean phone system <-+ dynamics +-- - - +-> installing freebsd <-+ jonp +-- - - +-> optical phiber technologys <-+ tradeser +-- - - +-> nodal disaster recovery procedure <-+ shadowx +-- - - +-> back-to-back mux p-phone delivery <-+ shadowx +-- - - +-> telephone network synchronisation overview <-+ shadowx +-- - - +-> ntl telephone sync network <-+ shadowx +-- - - +-> bt system x nou css rough overview <-+ anon +-- - - | : . WERD. gBH, 9X, B4b0, #darkcyde, ch1ckie, michella, asshair, lewp, dynamics, c&w crew, chrak, tip, elf, subz, guidob, grip, type0, icesk, ep1d, mortis, siezer, knight, a5m0, epoc, aktiver, ch4x, psyclone, oclet. . : | +-> editorial <-+---------------------------------------------- --- -- -- f41th issue 11. December 1999. Well, f41th has been running for exactly 1 year as of the release date of this issue, so werd to all that have helped out with f41th right from issue 1 (december 98) upto this current issue. This issue we have some real good articles from various peeps, aswell as the usuall lEEt stuff you can expect from the ONLY UK based h/p mag. (THE REAL LONDON UNDERGROUND). Well, as usuall I'm gonna grep the http-access-log from a darkcyde public website, and show you some scary hits that we've had. Lets start with a few hits from various .gov's. 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NASA, STIRCOM COMMAND, BT, A&TT, NORTEL... All reading f41th, that must be saying somthing. Heh. Well, as you can see, quite alot of activity happening on the webserver. Oh yeah, that reminds me, D4RKCYDE/f41th have a new website. It appears that http://darkcyde.phunc.com is down, so instead goto http://www.f41th.co.uk in the future, you never know, one day if we can be botherd to do some good html, it MIGHT, just MIGHT look presentable. As of always, f41th can always be downloaded from my own website at http://hybrid.dtmf.org/ Hmm... I cant figure out what to say in this editorial, so I guess I'll stop writting bullshit now. Just have a MAD ELITE NEW YEAR:) Oh, and be carefull, the Millenium bug might brake your familly "pc" :/ You'd best call someone to come round and check its Y2K complient.... Stupid f00ls. They'll be giving Vacinations at local hospitals soon, so you dont catch the MILLENIUM BUG... Heh, I'm gonna quit this shit now, cuse I'm sure you wanna read f41th:) and not the twisted/warped shit comming from my clinicly insane membrane.. :/ Later:) . : | +-> overview of system x local networks <-+---------------------- --- --- _\'/_[ Gwhan Burn'in Haxorz ]_\'/_ The UK PSTN an overview. SYSTEM X/X LOCAL AXE hybrid. _\'/_gBH Throughout the UK, BT implement system x (a digital switching system operated on a hierarchical chain of network operation groups). In this article I am going to explain some of the myths about the UK phone system, and expand on a few things that "they" would'nt want you to know. 1st, well look at the different facilities that are offered to internal BT staff within the X LOCAL network. (Customer Line Testing on Digital Exchanges...) Automatic Exchange Billing/Direct Transfer of Accounting in SYSTEM X, the mechanical subscribers meter is replaced by "software". The subscribers meter then becomes an area of "memory" allocated to each subscriber, and is incremented after each call in much the same way as the old meter was "stepped" after every unit. These individual areas of "memory" within the exchange, can be "read out" automatically and the information transfered to the Accounts Department in a very short period of time. This brings us on to the "REMOTE ACCESS" privaleges of the BT engineer, depending on level of clearnace. Manipulation of Exchange Equipment from a central point. For example, taking faulty equipment out of service, or making subscribers temporary out of service (TOS) for non-payment of bills. Monitoring Exchange Performance.. to ensure that faults in the exchange equipment do not effect service to other customers. Monitoring Network Performance - to ensure that defciencies or faults in the Network do not affect service. All these facilities can be controled from a central point. This central point can control a number of exchanges and can be situated virtually anywhere. (Network MASTER PLAN...) Network Structure. The UK Digital Network consists of several different types of Excahnges formaing the Trunk Network, TN and the Local Network, LN. The Trunk Network consists of 54 Digital Main Switching Units (DMSU) System X exchanges which are FULLY interconnected. Each of these exchanges has a number of Digital Local Switching Units (DLSU) conencted to it and the DMSU catchment area encompasess several old group Switching Centre Areas. The Local Network is divided into cells.. These "cells", contain a MINIMUM of two Digital Local Switching Units (DLSU) one a System X Exchange and the other an AXE10 Exchange. One of these Exchanges is used as the Digital Cell Centre Exchange (DCCE) and has access to the DMSU via its Digital Distribution Frame. The other Exchange also uses the DCCEs Frame for access to the DMSU. Remote Concentrator Units (RCU) are conencted to the DLSU's for their own system type. Where Analogue Local Exchanges have been replaced by several concentrators this is known by BT's internal staff as a Remote Concentrator Centre (RCC). In isolated/rurral areas of the UK, such as certain areas of Scotland, UXD5 exchanges are still in place. So, here is a diagram of what the UK SYSTEM X network plan looks like... (fear the ascii) ....................... _____ . | ALE | . |_____| . : > Non Switched | . = > Non Swicched _____ _|____ . ______ | RCU |__| DLSU | . | | |_____| | DCCE |--------| DMSU | |______| . |______| ............................... _____ | | . : | . | RCU |____| | . : | . _____ _____ |_____| | . : | . | RCU | | RCU | | . : | . |_____| |_____| Local Call | . : | . | | ..............|........ : | . | | | : | . | | | _:__|_ . __|___ __|___ |__________| |==========.==| DLSU |======| DLSU | | DMSU |__________.__| DCCE |______| DLE | |______| . |______| |______| : | . | : | . | Local Call : | ......|........................ : | | : | | _:__|_ | | | | | DMSU |________________| |______| In this diagram, the RCU's could also be RSS's, or more comonly known as AXE 10... Here is a brief explanation of the different sections of this diagram.. DMSU == Digital Main Switching Units, these exchanges provide the fully interconnected Trunk Network. Each DMSU catachment area comprises of several old GSC areas. The DMSU switches traffic both between and within the catchment area. DLSU == Digital Local Switching Unit. The DLSU is a general term for a digital local proccessor exchange. It provides a service for its customers. It can also provide other facilities dependant on its role as either DCCE or a DLE. DCCE == Digital Cell Centre Exchange. This is the exchange that provides a service for its own customers and act as a "parent" for the RCU's. It can act as a parrent for anolouge exchanges, terminating analouge line plant and performing call charging as required. It concentrates, and then forwards traffic to the DMSU's for parented Analouge Local Exchagnes (ALE) without their own DMSU links. The DCCE also switches Tandem Traffic between other DLSU's. DLE == Digital Local Exchange. This is a DLSU which may host RCU's and also act as a parent for those ALE's which have been replaced bt RCU's parented upon the DLE. (As Above). RCU == Remote Concentrator Unit. These are connected to the DLSU and are considered as part of the DLSU which it is conencted to. UXD5 == This is the digital exchange developed from the CDSS1 (Monarch) PABX. DJSU == Digital Junction Switching Unit. This is a switching unit situated in a high telephone density local network which performs a tandem switching function, but has NO customer conenctions. TXD identification... An alternative method of labelling types of exchanges is by number. This number forms part of the exchanges Network Nodal Identity, which appears on ALL documents specific to the particulr exchange. Some examples of the TXD numbers/identification... TXD NUMBER EXCHANGE -------------------------------- 3 RCU [ SYSTEM X ] 5 UXD5 6-9 DLSU [ SYSTEM X ] 13 DMSU 14 DJSU 30 OSSU 31 OCHC 53 RCU [ AXE 10 ] 56-59 DLSU [ AXE 10 ] 80-86 OMC THE OMU ALL BT Digital Exchanges are served by an Operations and Maintenance Centre (OMC). An OMC is the computer equipment required ro collect data from exchanges and is served by a number of users... Traffic, Sales, Operation and Maintenance Unit (OMU) etc.. An OMU is the office where engineers monitor the performance of the exchanges, and recieve the data collected by the OMC. There are sometimes more than one OMU connected to each OMC. The OMU is an office containing visual display TERMINALS which are connected to the Operations and Maintenance Centre (OMC). The OMU staff can send or recieve information via the OMC to control the exchanges conencted to it. The OMU hierarchy is as follows... ISOS == In Service Operational Support PSG == Product Support Group (BT Headquaters) DSG == District Suppoer Group (BT District staff) OMU == Operations and Maintenance Unit (BT OMU staff) The OMU staff... System Manager == The system manager has overall responsibility for the operation of the OMC computer and its terminal network. OMU Manager == The Operations and Maintenance Unit Manager (UM) has an overall responsibility for all exchanges controlled by his/her OMU. Maintenance Control Officer (MCO) == Is responsible for making sure that all tasks and routines have been carried out. This is achived will the help of the Maintenance Officers. His/Her job is also reffered to as the Task Co-ordinating Duty (TCD). Maintenance Officer (MO) == This dude is responsible for dealing with and clearing tasks pressented to him by the MCO. There are three types of Local System X exchange. They are... Digital Principle Local Exchange (DPLE), Large Local Exchange (LLE), Medium Local Exchange (MLE). THE END... (OF THE BEGGINING). _\'/_gBH. . : | +-> guide to the caribbean phone system <-+---------------------- --- --- /-------------------------------------------------------\ 8-0-9 MCI PHEER PHACTOR 809 INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS PRESENTS.... \-------------------------------------------------------/ greetz to: Bahamas Calling Card System,MCI,Cable&Wireless Francis Acosta (Head of Switching,Belize Telecom) Barclays Offshore Banking,International Data Proc (Nevis) Trinidad & Tobago Tourism and Codetel (Dominican Rep) haxxor greetz to: Redblade, GPI, _dave, Psyclone, Node8, Kuji, Polymorph hybrid and Shadow --------------------------------------------------------- A GUIDE TO 809 THE CARIBBEAN PHONE SYSTEM AND NUMBERING AND ROUTING ARRANGEMENTS --------------------------------------------------------- ........:Ver 1.1 for F41th and Echelon Magazine:....... "GaNjA sMoKiN sWiiTchMON, cAbLe and dA wIrEleSs jAmAicA lImIted" INTRODUCTION ------------ Welcome to 809 mon! In my opinion, the Caribbean is one of the most interesting NPAs around. Mainly because it is international but also national, meaning that technically it is an NPA like any other, but in real terms it has far more autonomy than an "ordinary" number area. For instance, many islands in this area have their own international circuits and ground stations, meaning that calls to this area do not all necessarily go through mainland US and some calls from South America end up entering the US via international gateways situated in this area. Call to numbers in the former 809 area from the US are considered to be international. I aim to inform the reader of the details of the telephone system in this area, and this would not be complete without giving Numbering Zone 5 a mention. The Caribbean is in fact split between Zone-1 (US) and Zone-5. Zone-1 includes islands that are US-friendly, and most British and European colonies. Caribbean countries in Zone-5 have either obtained their own IDC code by breaking away from Zone-1 or are nations that have a particular dislike of being in the US NPA, for political reasons mainly, which is why Cuba and Haiti are not in Zone-1. Sometime in the near future, Trinidad and Tobago will obtain their own International Dialling Code. Trinidad and Tobagos' code will be +296 - Zone-2, as codes in Zone-5 have been used up. Until recently, the Caribbean was unified under NPA 809, with exchanges assigned to the individual islands. Since then, the old 809 NPA has been divided into smaller NPAs, with most groups of islands being assigned their own NPA. NPAs of the Caribbean and Exchanges ----------------------------------------------------------------| | ISLAND | NPA | EXCHANGES | ----------------------------------------------------------------| | Anguilla | 264 |497-2xxx Valley | | | |497-3xxx Valley | | | |497-4xxx Lopse | | | |497-6xxx Sisal | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Antigua and Barbuda | 268 |960 460 461 462 463 464| |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Bahamas | 242 |Andros 369 | | | |Bimini 347 | | | |Coopers Town 362 | | | |Deadman's Cay 337 | | | |Eight Mile Rock 348 | | | |Eleuthera 332 | | | |Farmer's Hill 338 | | | |Freeport 349 | | | | 352 | | | | 353 | | | | 673 | | | |Fresh Creek 368 | | | |George Town 336 | | | |Green Turtle Cay 363 | | | |Harbour Island 333 | | | |High Rock 345 | | | |Hope Town 365 | | | |Inagua 339 | | | |Lucaya 373 | | | |Marsh Harbour 367 | | | |North Andros 329 | | | |Nassau 322 | | | | 323 | | | | 324 | | | | 325 | | | | 326 | | | | 327 | | | | 328 | | | | 344 | | | | 354 | | | | 355 | | | | 348 | | | | 392 | | | | 393 | | | |Marsh Harbour 367 | | | |North Andros 329 | | | |New Providence 321 | | | | 356 | | | | 359 | | | | 361 | | | | 364 | | | |Rock Sound 334 | | | |San Salvadore 331 | | | |Spanish Wells 335 | | | |Treasure Cay 366 | | | |West End 346 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Barbados | 246 |Bridgetown 230 420 421 | | | | 422 423 424 | | | | 425 426 427 | | | | 428 429 430 | | | | 431 432 433 | | | | 434 435 436 | | | | 437 438 439 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Bermuda | 441 |Devonshire 231 232 233 | | | | 234 235 236 | | | | 237 238 239 | | | | 291 292 293 | | | | 294 295 296 | | | | 297 298 299 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| |British Virgin Islands | 284 |Road Town 494 | | | |Long Swamp 495-2 | | | |Little Apple Bay 495-4 | | | |Virgin Gorda 495-5 | | | |Others 496 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Cayman Islands | 345 |West Bay Road | | | |East Side 947 | | | |Cayman Brac 948 | | | |George Town, | | | |Grand Caym. 949 | | | |Additional Exchange for| | | |George Town and others | | | | 946 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Dominica | 767 |Roseau 445 446 447 | | | | 448 449 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Domincan Republic | 809 |Azua 521 | | | |Bani 522 | | | |Barahona 524 | | | |Boca Chica 523 | | | |Bonao 525 | | | |Constanza 539 | | | |Cotui 585 | | | |Elseibo 552 | | | |Guerra 526 | | | |Hato Mayor 553 | | | |Higuey 554 | | | |Imbert 581 | | | |La Romana 556 | | | |La Vega 573 | | | |Magua 584 | | | |La Matas de Farfan 536 | | | |Moca 578 | | | |Monte Cristy 579 | | | |Neyba 527 | | | |Puerto Plata 586 | | | |Rio San Juan 589 | | | |Salcedo 577 | | | |Samana 538 | | | |Santiago Rodriguez 580 | | | |Santiago 575 582 | | | | 583 587 | | | |Santo Domingo 530 531 | | | | 532 533 | | | | 535 541 | | | | 542 543 | | | | 544 545 | | | | 546 547 | | | | 549 551 | | | | 560 561 | | | | 562 563 | | | | 564 565 | | | | 566 567 | | | | 568 569 | | | | 574 594 | | | | 595 596 | | | | 597 598 | | | | 682 685 | | | | 686 687 | | | | 688 689 | | | |San Juan de la Maguana | | | | 557 | | | |San Jose de Ocoa 558 | | | |San Cristobal 528 | | | |San Francisco deMacoris| | | | 588 | | | |San Pedro de Marcoris | | | | 529 | | | |Sosua 571 | | | |Valverde Mao 572 | | | |Villa Altagracia 559 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Greneda | 473 |Grenville 442 | | | |St Georges 440 441 | | | | 443 444 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Jamaica | 876 |Annotto Bay 996 | | | |Balaclava 963 | | | |Black River 965 | | | |Brown's Town 975 | | | |Carlton 968 | | | |Central 967 | | | |Chapelton 987 | | | |Christiana 964 | | | |Discovery Bay 973 | | | |Duncans 954 | | | |Highgate 992 | | | |Irish Town 943 | | | |Kingston 493 921 | | | | 922 923 | | | | 924 925 | | | | 926 927 | 928 929 | | | | 998 | | | |Linstead 985 | | | |Lucea 956 | | | |Mandeville 962 | | | |May Pen 986 | | | |Montego Bay 951 952 | | | | 958 | | | |Montrose 977 | | | |Morant Bay 982 | | | |Negril 957 | | | |Ocho Rios 974 | | | |Old Harbour 983 | | | |Pembroke 969 | | | |Port Antonio 993 | | | |Port Maria 994 | | | |Portmore 988 | | | |Red Hills 944 | | | |Rose Hall 953 | | | |Santa Cruz 966 | | | |Savanna - La Mar 955 | | | |Spanish Town 984 | | | |St Ann's Bay 972 | | | |Stony Hill 942 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| |Montserrat | 664 |All points 491 | |(British. West Indies) | | | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Puerto Rico | 787 |Adjuntas 829 | | | |Aguadilla 882 891 | | | |Aguas Buenas 732 | | | |Aibonito 735 | | | |Anasco 826 | | | |Aquada 252 868 | | | |Aquirre 853 | | | |Arecibo 878 879 | | | | 880 | | | |Arroyo Patillas 839 | | | |Barceloneta 846 | | | |Barranquitas 857 | | | |Bayamon 251 730 | | | | 740 780 | | | | 785 786 | | | | 787 797 | | | | 798 799 | | | |Cabo Rojo 255 851 | | | |Caguas 258 743 | | | | 744 745 | | | | 746 747 | | | |Camuy Hotillo 262 820 | | | | 898 | | | |Candvanas 256 | | | |Caparra 380 381 | | | | 382 383 | | | | 384 385 | | | | 386 387 | | | | 388 389 | | | | 390 391 | | | | 394 395 | | | | 396 397 | | | | 398 399 | | | |Carolina 250 750 | | | | 752 757 | | | | 762 768 | | | | 769 | | | |Catano 784 788 | | | |Cayey 263 738 | | | |Ceiba 885 | | | |Ciales 871 | | | |Cidra 739 | | | |Coamo 825 | | | |Comeria 875 | | | |Corozal 859 | | | |Culebra 742 | | | |Dorado Toa Baja 796 | | | |Fajardo 860 863 | | | |Florida 822 | | | |Guanica Ensenada 821 | | | |Guayama 864 | | | |Guayanilla 267 835 | | | |Guaynabo 720 731 | | | | 789 790 | | | |Gurabo 737 | | | |Hormigueros 849 | | | |Humacao 852 | | | |Isabela 830 872 | | | |Isla Verde 253 791 | | | |Jayuya 828 | | | |Juana Diaz 837 | | | |Juncos 734 | | | |Lajas 899 | | | |Lares 897 | | | |Las Marias 827 | | | |Las Piedras 733 | | | |Levittown 261 795 | | | |Loiza 876 | | | |Luquillo 889 | | | |Manati 854 884 | | | |Maricao 838 | | | |Maunabo 861 | | | |Mayaguez 254 264 | | | | 265 831 | | | | 832 833 | | | | 834 | | | |Moca 877 | | | |Morovis 862 | | | |Naguabo 874 | | | |Naranjito 869 | | | |Orocovis 867 | | | |Palmas del Mar 850 | | | |Penuelas 836 | | | |Ponce 259 840 | | | | 841 842 | | | | 843 844 | | | | 848 866 | | | |Pueblo Viejo 749 781 | | | | 782 783 | | | | 792 793 | | | |Quebradillas 895 | | | |Ramey 890 | | | |Rincon 823 | | | |Rio Grande 887 | | | |Rio Piedras 250 751 | | | | 753 754 | | | | 756 758 | | | | 759 | | | |Roosevelt Roads 865 | | | |Sabana Grande 873 | | | |Salinas 824 | | | |Santana 881 | | | |Santurce 268 721 | | | | 727 728 | | | |San Germain 892 | | | |San Juan 722 723 | | | | 724 725 | | | | 726 886 | | | | 888 | | | |San Lorenzo 736 | | | |San Sebastian 896 | | | |Santa Isabel 845 | | | |Toa Alta 870 | | | |Toa Baja 794 | | | |Trujillo Alto 729 748 | | | | 755 760 | | | | 761 | | | |Utuado 894 | | | |Vega Alta 883 | | | |Vega Baha 855 858 | | | |Vieques 741 | | | |Villalba 847 | | | |Yabucoa 266 893 | | | |Yauco 856 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | St. Kitts and Nevis | 869 |St Kitts 465 467 | | | |Newcastle (Nevis) 469 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | St. Lucia | 758 |All points 452 453 454 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| |St. Vincent&Grenadines | 784 |All points 456 457 458 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Trinidad and Tobago | 868 |Arima 642 667 | | | |Barrackpore 654 | | | |Chaguanas 665 671 | | | | 672 | | | |Claxton Bay 659 | | | |Couva 636 678 | | | | 679 | | | |Cross Crossing 657 | | | |Diego Martin 632 633 | | | | 634 637 | | | |Fryzabad 677 | | | |Gasparillo 650 | | | |Guayaguayare 630 | | | |Marabella 658 | | | |Maraval 629 | | | |Mausica 646 | | | |Mayaro 644 | | | |Penal 647 | | | |Piarco 664 669 | | | |Princess Town 655 656 | | | |Point Fortin 648 | | | |Port-of-Spain 622 623 | | | | 624 625 | | | | 627 628 | | | |Roxborough (Tobago)660 | | | |Scarborough (Tobago)639| | | |Siparra 649 | | | |San Fernando 652 653 | | | |San Juan 638 674 | | | | 675 676 | | | |Santa Rosa 643 | | | |St Augustine 645 662 | | | | 663 | | | |Toco 668 670 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| |Turks & Caicos Islands | 649 |Grand Turk 946-2 | | | |South Caicos 946-3 | | | |Providenciales 946-4 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | U.S Virgin Islands | 340 |Charlotte Amalie, | | | |St Thomas 774 775 | | | | 776 777 | | | | 778 779 | | | |St John 776-6xxx| | | | 776-7xxx| | | |Christiansted, | | | |St Croix 771 773 | | | |Fredericksted, | | | |St Croix 772 | |---------------------------------------------------------------| Note: Some countries have not updated their routing tables to take into account the new NPAs in this region. Should you find yourself on a trunk in one of the non-updated countries, when routing simply use 809 as the area code. Kp2-1-0-809-prefix-number-ST This is possible, as none of the exchanges listed here overlap or conflict, because until recently they were all on NPA 809. This routing might be worth considering, if routing using the new NPA won't work. NETWORK INFRUSTRUCTURE ---------------------- The nature of the Caribbean area - many small islands, makes laying cables to every island a challenging task. As the result, the larger islands are served with submarine cables and tend to act as concentration points for infrustructure. Satellites are also used, these mainly for international calls due to the delay often associated with satellite connections, satellites are making it possible for many nations in this area to have direct links with the UK and Europe meaning that international connections no longer have to go through the US, increasing the autonomy of the telcos in the area. [bermuda-earthstation.jpg] The main hubs, or nodal points in the network, are situated strategically on the larger islands. Historically, the smaller islands were linked together with a VHF Radio and UHF-Microwave system, the latter being pioneered by Cable&Wireless in 1972, what was then the longest island hopping analogue microwave system in the world, spanning the 800 miles between Tortilla and Trinidad, including the French islands. This microwave network is still in use, but over recent years (1991) has been developed further to provide digital transmission and greater bandwidth. [See cwmicrowavemap.jpg] [See microtower.jpg] But, with the advent of the internet, and greater demand for bandwidth, it has become economical to lay fibres to even the smaller islands. Recently, the Eastern Caribbean Fibre-Optic System was inaugerated, stretching from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad, this system provides high quality undersea international links and ensures that the islands of the Eastern Caribbean have the capacity to keep up with the increased demand for telephone service. [See Ecfs.jpg] More developments are on the horizon in the Eastern Caribbean. Cable&Wireless is constructing an IP network with gateway nodes and network management centres in Antigua, Barbados and Trinidad. A Frame-Relay network is due for completion, to complement the new IP Network. ....]Main Hubs From looking at a map of the main cables in this area [caribbean.gif], the network hubs can be identified. The US Virgin Islands seem to be the biggest hub amd covers the Eastern Caribbean area. It is linked to the US mainland via the Americas-1, Columbus-2 and Florida - St Thomas cables, both with bandwidths of 2.5Gbps each. It is the base of the Eastern Caribbean Fibre-Optic System. It is also linked with Venezuela and Brazil, via the US-Venezuela cable and the Brus, both coaxial with 640ch each. The second part of the Americas-1 also links it with Brazil, and provides 560Mbps of bandwidth. The Columbus-2 (560Mbps) links the US Virgin Islands hub with Palermo in Italy. The hub for the Western Caribbean is Puerto Rico. The Eastern hub is linked with Puerto Rico via the 560Mbps Taino-Carib fibre-optic cable with landing points in US. VI and in Isla Verde and Miramar in Puerto Rico. A coaxial, 4,680 channel cable links San Juan in Puerto Rico with West Palm Beach FL. The TCS-1 coaxial system links Jamaica, Domincian Rep and Colombia with Puerto Rico, offering a capacity of 3,780 channels, before splitting in two with 1,890 channels for Jamaica and Dominican Republic and 1,890 channels of capacity for the Colombian link. Jamaica has become increasingly important, with a new cable linking it with Florida (aptly named the Florida - Jamaica). From Jamaica, a cable links it with Panama and the Cayman Islands. Jamaica is part of the Jamaica-Cayman Fibre Optic System, linking several landing points on the islands involved. [Side note on the Cayman Islands, they actually have the highest number of fax machines per capita than anywhere else and they are in the top ten financial centres, and probably the least know of them all... :D] [Note: this map is a 1996 plan, courtesy of KDD. It leaves out a few of the newer cables, including some US - Venezuela connections and the Cayman-Jamaica Fibre Optic System. Some have been added, but not all, although this map seems to be the best out of the maps currently available online.] Nearly every island has a ground station, providing international links and television services, some of the satellites used include INMARSAT, INTELSAT, and TRICOMSAT. Some reports of Westar IV being used by Nicaragua (505) are floating around, this is unverified. Belize (501) did have a direct satellite link with the UK until last year, but the link died and now all calls are handled by MCI as a primary carrier with secondary agreements with AT&T and Telmex. ....]Switching and Signalling Most of the islands in the Eastern Caribbean have fully digital switching facilities and services that are on a par (if not better) than what we have in the UK. Prices are fairly comparable, although local calls are free. Teledensity is lower in this region as a whole, but efforts made by the telcos are paying off and demand for lines is increasing. ESS and DMS are the main digital switches in use, such is the US influence on the area, for analogue switiching, the Crossbar is the main switch, there are few Step-by-Step/Strowger switches remaining, if any. Signalling for international calls in a combination of SS7 and R1/C5. R1 and C5 are still used fairly extensively, despite digitalisation, mainly due to the reduced demand and revenue from international calls meaning the need for upgrading is less. Background dialling, muting during routing and single-pleep connections are all features of a typical Caribbean C5 connection. Filtering on these connections is intensive and therefore they are always the hardest connections to bluebox. Despite this, they are always interesting to the inquisitive, and have many features such as the ability to drop onto verification trunks for eavesdropping. It is the case with some connections, such as Belize, that the C5 routing and signalling data is digitised onto E1 cables for transit via the US. On reaching Belize it once again becomes inband, meaning that seizing intermediate trunks along the route is impossible. This method might also mean that certain devices could be used to prevent blueboxing, although my knowledge of these devices is minimal. SS7 is increasingly the signalling of choice, although blueboxing will still be alive over there for quite some time. A fully digitised Caribbean is within view in the next 10 years, unfortunatly for blueboxing. ....]Brief Description of the Networks BAHAMAS Nowadays, most business districts in New Providence are serviced via fibre optic cable, and, in 1997 Batelco inaugurated its new fibre optic cable connection to Florida which is owned by BATELCO, AT&T, MCI, Worldcom and telephone companies in Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Trinidad and Tobago. This is in addition to the coaxial BAHAMAS-1 cable (1972) and provides additional capacity for the growing demand for telephone service in the Bahamas. There is also a standard "A" Earth Station, and a new satellite linking Switzerland with the Bahamas was launched in 1998. Many calls to the Bahamas from Europe during the hurricane were routed along this satellite as opposed to the submarine cable due to the adverse weather conditions. Today, BATELCO's modern digital network has a switch capacity for 131,000 lines of which some 109,000 are now in service and just over 98,000 of which are revenue producing. Since 1992 Batelco has increased its lines in service, by over 22,000, an increase of the order of 20%. As a result, increased service has been provided in New Providence, Abaco, Andros, Exuma, Grand Bahama, Long Island, and Eleuthera and elsewhere. By 1995, even the small fishing community at Grand Cay, Abaco had Direct Distance Dial (DDD). So does Sweetings Cay, Grand Bahama, the Current, Rum Cay and Ragged Island. By comparison to other developing countries, The Bahamas have a high fixed-line penetration in the community. The telco is pressing ahead with further modernisation including upgrading of switches. BARBADOS Cable & Wireless BARTEL's telephone system now comprises four DMS-100s, four DMS-10s and several remotes in a fully digital system. SS7 is used as the signalling system. Barbados is on the Eastern Caribbean Fibre-Optic system, and part of the microwave network. A ground station is also in use. BELIZE Belize Telecommunications Ltd operates a mixed analogue-inband and digital telephone system. Most of the country has access to private telephone services, but where these are not available yet, service is provided using payphones in community locations. Most customers are serviced by an analogue switch, notably Crossbar with some on ESS, R1 being the main signalling system in use. For data transfer, DATAPAC is the main system in use and offers speeds of between 300bps and 9600bps. At present, DTN - Data Transport Network is being phased in, offering higher data speeds. Until last year, Belize had a direct satellite link with the UK. All transit calls go via MCI, AT&T being the secondary carrrier and Telmex being the tertiary carrier. CCITT system 5 is the international switching system in use, with signalling being digitally encoded onto E1s at the switching centre. Cellular service uses the AMPS standard, and paging is available. Belize was once on the US numbering plan, but suceeded from it a long time ago. It was given country code 501. JAMAICA Cable and Wireless Jamaica has operated a completely digital (switching and transmission) network since 1992. Its central office switching capacity is supported by numerous Outside Plant Modules (OPMs). These OPMs are small remote exchanges linked to larger host exchanges by fibre optic cable or digital microwave radio. OPMs are currently being installed at an average rate of 30 per year, mainly in rural communities, where mountainous terrain renders traditional methods of service provisioning both difficult and expensive. Jamaica's international telecommunications traffic is shared by two submarine fibre optic cable systems and an earth station with access to an INTELSAT Atlantic Ocean satellite. Under an extensive development programme started six years ago, the number of telephone main lines in service has tripled to 453,102 at the end of November 1998. The company has set itself a target of 500,000 main lines by the year 2000. In early 1997, the Company began deploying Wireless Local Loop (WLL) technology as part of its strategy to provide basic telephone service at a much faster rate, particularly in rural areas. Cable and Wireless Jamaica is also currently working to increase the capacity of the island's cellular network and will shortly begin the phased introductioin of digital service. PANAMA Services in Panama are operated by Cable&Wireless Panama. A mixed network of analogue and digital switching is present at the moment. Many iniatives have been taken by Cable&Wireless to increase teledensity and the number of lines has increased dramatically this year. R1 is the main signalling system in use, although digital systems are beginning to surfice. Digital cellular services are now available. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO The telephone company for Trinidad and Tobago is Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago, abbreviated TSTT. The company operates a fully digital network, and has done since 1997. The thirty-seven digital switches include 1 DMS 200 Toll Switch, 12 DMS 100 Line Switches, 14 DMS Remote Switching Centres and 10 Outside Plant Modules (OPMs). The Company's network comprises 37 exchanges offering service to approximately 190,000 customers. TSTT maintains two Standard A Intelsat earth stations at Point Lisas and Matura. The Point Lisas Teleport provides an external satellite route out of Trinidad and Tobago. It is equipped with a full auto-track facility, stand-by power and other ancillary equipment which is linked to TEXTEL House and to Piarco International Airport by digital microwave radio. A Digital Microwave System also connects TEXTEL house and the Eastern Caribbean Microwave Station at Morne Bleu. TEXTEL House, Morne Bleu and Matura have been equipped with modern digital multiplexing systems. ....]Cellular Phones in the Caribbean The cellular phone industry in this region is similar to that of the US, predominantly AMPS (analogue) with digital making an entry in the form of TDMA and PCS. Cable & Wireless have introduced digital cellular services in the Cayman Islands, Panama and Barbados. For many islands, cellular services are under the control of the monopoly telco with government regulation. ....]Operating Companies Cable&Wireless is the dominant player in the Caribbean, it is main telco in the region and it's position was inherited as it was the British international telephone company. Since then, it has been granted licenses by the governments of this region to provide telephone services. In most cases, telcos in this region are monopolies. Except for Cable&Wireless; MCI and AT&T are major international carriers. Other telcos do exist, such as Belize Telecom, Bahamas Telecom (Batelco), Puerto Rico PRT, St. Eustatius EUTEL, St. Maarten Telem and Skantel St. Kitts and Nevis. CONCLUSION ---------- I hope that this fairly detailed guide has left you with a better knowledge of the Caribbean phone system. Who knows, it might even come in useful sometime, you could impress people with your k-rad 809 knowledge. If you have any comments or additions to this guide, email me at the following address: inno6@hotmail.com Any I'll probably reply. gtg, calls to make..... "tHaNk-y0u aNd gOoDbYe... CHEEP!..." =8-0-9 INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS= westar - 0wned: 809 |=| ||------|=|------|| |=| /---------------\ | | _ [ |Nicaragua Tel |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~\ \ |0wned by 809 | | \ \/ | | | \ \ |_______________| | \___________\] Banana Hut HQ "So, NynexPhreak, what's a guard tone?" [Smart guy... CCU] . : | +-> installing freebsd <-+--------------------------------------- --- --- This message contains non-ASCII text, which can only be displayed properly if you are running X11. What follows may be partially unreadable, but the English (ASCII) parts should still be readable. HEH. ==[OpenBSD - How to install and use by JonP.] What you should know. BSD is not one of the most friendlist unices available, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are not for the inexperienced, especially OpenBSD as the only friendly setup tool available to you is called Vi (and in the installition its ed). Another problem people have with BSD is hardware, it doesnt support as much hardware as linux, and might not do for a long time. The Install. Backup all your important stuff, or if your like me(young, stupid and lame) you won't have anything important and you will be safe. The first thing to do is to get yourself a copy of OpenBSD by FTP or CD. FTP is not such a bad choice as OpenBSD is not very big and the CD set costs �20. The files you NEED to get are: base25.tgz (base system) etc25.tgz (config files) bsd (GENERIC kernel) floppy25.fs (boot floppy) (this is only relevant to version 2.5 of OpenBSD). recommended extra files are: man25.tar.gz (man files) comp25.tar.gz (programming stuff) and all the x*.tgz if you want X How to Install. Start by making the boot floppy using RAWRITE in dos/windows or 'dd' in UNIX, e.g: C:\TOOLZ> rawrite floppy25.fs A: or in Linux dd < floppy25.fs > /dev/fd0 boot the the target computer, you will then have to go through the install process (sometimes painfull) now read: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/i386/INSTALL.i386 from the OpenBSD docs as the install process can be a bitch, this file also contains all the information you will need about hardware et al. --[Things to After the install] 1. Add a user. Add a user for general use and IRC etc using the adduser(8) command: # /usr/sbin/adduser this is a simple menu based adduser command which any fewl can work out. If you want the user to be able to use SU then you need to add them the "wheel" group. NOTE: logins can seem to take a long time as it needs to decrypt those long blowfish encrypted passwds 2.1 configure the system. With BSD based systems, things are usally changed in the /etc/rc.* files. If you wish to add your a program to run at start up, add it to /etc/rc.local. Another important file is /etc/rc.conf. this contains configuration options for your system, and example of an rc.conf file is: sendmail_flags=NO # set to "-bd -q30m" for normal uses httpd_flags="-DSSL" # starts httpd with SSL support ... ipfilter=NO ipnat=NO # ipfilter must be YES for this to work. all the options in /etc/rc.local are well commented, so any kiddie like me can work it out. 2.2 Kernel Configuration. Options in the OpenBSD kernel can be set using the program syscntl. for example: # syscntl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 net.inet.ip.forwarding 0 -> 1 However, u may wish these things to be automatic, so by simply adding: net.inet.ip.forwarding=0 in /etc/syscntl.conf. 3. Install extra software. 3.1 Packages. Packages are precompiled programs for OpenBSD which are easy to get and use. 2 packages which you will want to get are pgp and ssh. the packages can be found from the FTP sites and easy to install, for example: # pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/[ver]/packages/[arch]/filename # pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/packages/i386/pgp-2.6.3-intl.tar.gz 3.2 Ports. The ports collection are a very BSD thing. The ports.tgz file from the OpenBSD ftp site contains a large directory tree containing Makefiles, patches, etc needed to compile programs for OpenBSD. To install a package goto the directory for the port you need, for example: # cd /usr/ports/archivers/unzip, # make # make install the Makefiles will search for a local copy of the source, if it is not found it will go off to a ftp site to get it. --[things you will want to do] 1. Set up PPP PPP can also be annoying in BSD, so save yourself time and use this file: ----------8< /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ------------------ # PPP.CONF default: set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command set device /dev/cuaa0 # 0=COM1 1=COM2 etc set speed 115200 # baud rate set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" # Assumes PAP or CHAP myisp: set phone [isp phone number] set login set authname [user name] set authkey [passwd] set timeout 120 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR enable dns ------------8<------------------------------------ to dial just do: # ppp -dial myisp 2. Set up NAT (if you want to be a gateway) NAT is quite easy to setup if you just wish to forward all from ppp0, infact the command to do it is commented out in /etc/ipnat.rules ,so just change it so it reads: (the default line in it only maps ports 10000 - 20000 map ppp0 10.0.0.0/8 -> ppp0/32 NOTE: ip forwarding is not setup in the default kernel, to enable type: # /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 then add net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf, and enable ipfilter in /etc/rc.conf. 3. Set up firewalling Firewalling in BSD is quite easy, it is done by adding rules to /etc/ipf.rules and enabling ipfirewalling in /etc/rc.conf. the firewall rules are based on simple commands like this: pass out from any to any #allows all outgoing packets pass in from any to any #allows all incoming packet block in log on ppp0 proto tcp from any to any port=telnet #blocks and logs all telnet connections from ppp0 block in log on ppp0 from 192.168.0.0/24 to any block in log on ppp0 frmo 0.0.0.0/32 to any # stop spoofing block in log on ppp0 proto tcp from any to any block in log on ppp0 proto udp from any to any # disallow ALL incoming tcp & udp connections pass in on ppp0 proto tcp0 from any to any port=80 # allow web access to all 4. other networking stuff Networking in OpenBSD is done much the same as Linux for example: # ifconfig ne2 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 ne2 however, the networking information entered in the install program is kept so the network should be fully functional after the install. 4. SSH SSH is automatticly setup when you download and install the ssh package from the openbsd archives. --[The End] . : | +-> optical phiber technologys <-+------------------------------- --- --- ----------------------------------------------------------- | The Basics to Fiber Optics by: Tradeser | ----------------------------------------------------------- Sections ---------------------------------- 1. What Is Fibers Optics? 2. Where Are Optical Fibers Used? 3. How Are Optical Fibers Made? 4. How do Optical Fibers Work? 5. Morse Code 6. ASCII-8 ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Where Are Optical Fibers Used? ---------------------------------- Two inventions on the 1960s and 1970s made fiber optics possible. During this time, scientist invented lasers. Lasers are powerful sources of a special kind of light. Other researchers developed optical fibers. An optical fiber is a flexible thread of a very clear glass--thinner than a cat's whisker and up to six miles long. Laser lights can pass through the length of optical fiber ans still shine bright. Because optical fibers can serve as pipelines for light, they also are called light guides. In the mid-1970s, these inventions were teamed together. Now pulses of light flash through optical fibers carrying information and messages over great distances. This important new technology is called fiber optics. Glass fiber are replacing copper wires for may reasons. The fiber are replacing copper wires for many reasons. The fibers are not as expensive for telephone companies to install. They weigh a lot less than copper wires--making them easier for workers to handle. A single four-and-one-half-pound spool of optical fiber can carry the same number of messages as two hundred reels of copper wire that weigh over sixteen thousand pounds. The fibers are better, too, because light is not affected by nearby electrical generators, motors, power lines, or lightning storms. These are often the causes of noisy static on telephones or information errors in computers systems connected by copper wires. As electrical signals pass through copper wire, they become weakened. Devices called repeaters are used to strengthen the electrical signals about every mile along each line. In fiber optic systems, repeaters are needed only every six miles or so to boost the light signal. Experiments have shown that this distance can be stretched many more miles. However, the most important reason for using glass fibers is that they can carry much more information than copper wires. A single pair of threadlike glass fibers can transmit thousands of telephone calls at once. A cable as thick as your arm and containing and containing 256 pairs of copper wires would be needed to handle the same number of conversations. Pairs of fiber (or wires) are used for two-way communications. One fiber carries your voice to the listener at the other end of the line. The other member of the pair transmits the other person's reply to you. Optical fibers are less expensive, easier to install, and more dependable than copper wires. With light from lasers, they can transmit thousands of times more information than electricity in copper wires. The new technology of fiber optics is a better and faster way to communicate. ---------------------------------- Where Are Optical Fibers Used? ---------------------------------- All over the world, the copper wires of telephone trunk lines are being replaced be modern glass optical fibers. One of the first attempts to use an optical fiber system in the United States was in 1977 in Chicago. There, two offices of the Bell Telephone Company and a third building for customers were connected successfully by twenty-four light-carrying glass fibers. The fibers were threaded through telephone cabled already under the city streets. The total length of the fibers was about 1.5 miles. In 1978, Visa-United Telecommunications at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, was the first to use fiber optics commercially in the United States. Telephones throughout the 28,000-acre park are liked by fiber optic trunk lines. Video transmissions by glass fibers are made to many individual hotel rooms on the property from one location. Lighting and alarm systems also use optical fibers. American Telephone and Telegraph has in service a fiber optic line that connects Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia. The truck line is part of a project 780 miles long. The light cable used is the thickness of garden hose. Nevertheless, it can carry eighty thousand calls at once. By July 1988, American Telephone and Telegraph laid a fiber optic cable beneath the ocean between North America and Europe. The cable is called TAT-8 because it is AT&T�s eighth transatlantic telephone cable. TAT-1, a copper cable was completed in 1956 and could carry fifty-one calls at a time. TAT-7, the last copper cable, was laid 1983. It can handle about eight thousand calls at one time. Even With TAT-8, a second fiber transatlantic cable, TAT-9, probably was put down between California and Hawaii. Now Satellites are used more for these communications. Glass fibers are ideal for military defense. In addition to their other advantages, the fibers are easy to hide from an enemy. Metal detectors cannot locate them, for example. Also, the fibers are almost impossible to secretly tap or jam. [That�s right almost. Every book I read on fiber optics said "almost" Gee, I wonder why?] Thus, vital messages are more likely to get through. Light-carrying fibers usually are not affected by radiation. And they can be used safely near ammunition storage areas of fuel tanks because they do not create sparks as electricity can in copper wires. The North American Air Defense Command is located deep inside Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. Its computers, linked by optical fibers, process radar information from around the globe. Army field communications systems also depend on optical fibers. ---------------------------------- How Are Optical Fibers Made? ---------------------------------- The glass used to make optical fibers must be very pure. Light must be able to pass through the length of the fiber without being scattered, or losing brightness. Though glass in a eyeglass lens look perfect, a three-foot-think piece of this kind of glass would stop a beam of ordinary light. Tiny particles of iron, chromium, copper, and cobalt adsorb or scatter the light. The glass in an optical fiber is nearly free of impurities and so flawless that light travels through it for many miles. If ocean water were as pure, we could be able to see the bottom of the Mariana Trench, over thirty-two thousand feet or six miles down, from the surface of the Pacific. The optical fiber has two parts, a glass inner core, and the outside cover cladding. In the core light travels through this highly transparent part of the fiber. The core of an optical is surrounded be an outer covering called the cladding. The cladding is made of a different type of glass from the sore of the fiber. For this reason, the cladding acts like a mirror. Light traveling through the core of the fiber is reflected back into the core by the cladding -- much like a ball bouncing off the inside of a long pipe. In this way, light entering one end of an optical fiber is trapped inside the sore until it comes to the other end. Optical fibers are manufactured in "clean rooms." The air in these rooms is filtered to keep out the tiniest particles of dust. Even smallest specks of dirt could ruin the fiber as it is made. Workers in these areas usually wear jump suits or lab coats and caps made from lint free fabric. An optical fiber start out as a hollow glass tube. The tube is mounted on a machine that rotates it. A special gas is fed into the tube. A flaming torch moves back and forth along the tube, heating it to nearly 1,600 Celsius. With each pass of the torch, some of the hot gas inside forms a fine layer of glass on the inner wall of the tube. A series of different gases can be fed into the tube. With this method, layers of several different kinds of glass are added to the inside wall. When the addition of glass is complete, gas still inside the tube is gently sucked out. Now, the heat from the torch is increased to 2000 Celsius. The hollow tube collapses into a solid glass rod called a perform. The perform is the size of a broomstick -- about as big around as a fifty-cent piece and a yard long. The perform is cooled and carefully inspected. Light from a laser used to make sure the core and cladding of the glass preform are perfect. Next, the perform is placed in a special furnace where it is heated to 2,200 C. At this temperature, the tip of the perform can be drawn or pulled like taffy into a wisp of an optical fiber -- thinner than a human hair. Usually, as soon as it is drawn, the fiber passes through a tiny funnel where it is coated with fast-drying plastic. The coating protects the fiber fro being scratched or damaged. The fiber from a draw may be up to sic miles long. It is wound onto a spool for ease of handling and storage. Glass is usually thought to be brittle, unbendable, and easily broken. Amazingly, optical fibers are flexible and strong as threads of steel. The fiber can be tied into loose knots without breaking and light still passes through from end to end. ---------------------------------- How Do Optical Fibers Work? ---------------------------------- Whenever you talk to someone else the sound of your voice travels to their ears as a pattern of vibrations or waves in the air. Light and electricity also move in waves. To get an idea what waves look like, tie one end of a long rope to a post or tree. Hold the other end of the rope and walk away until the rope is stretched out, but still slightly slack. Now yank the free end of the rope up and down repeatedly. A series of bumps or waves travels down the rope. You can change the pattern of the waves. You can make small waves by giving weak, up-and-down yanks on the rope. Or you can make big waves by giving strong, up-and-down yanks on the rope. The height or tallness of the waves depends on the strength you use to yank the rope up and down. The distance between the top of one wave and the top of the next wave is called the wavelength. Another way to vary the waves is to change their speed. You can yank the rope up and down only once in a second or many times in a second. The number of waves reaching the tree or post each second is the frequency of the waves. Why do pulses or waves of light streaking through an optical fiber go farther, better, and faster than electricity pulsing through copper wires? Lasers used in fiber optic systems are made from tiny crystals of a material called gallium arsenide. These lasers are as small as a single grain of salt and easily could fit through the eye of a needle. Nevertheless, they can produce some of the world's most powerful pinpoints of light. Light from a laser is unlike ordinary light. Laser light is all of the same frequency and wavelength. And all of it is traveling together in the same direction -- like bullets aimed from the barrel of a gun at once target. The results is a brilliant source of very pure light. Laser light can shine through miles of optical fiber without being boosted as often as an electrical signal. The laser light used is fiber optic telephone or communications systems is infrared. The frequency if infrared light is just below what people can see with their eyes unaided. Infrared light is used in communications systems because it can travel long distances through optical fibers with less loss of power. Another source of light that is also used with optical fibers for communications is light emitting diode or LED. LED's are less costly that gallium arsenide lasers. However, lasers can transmit more information at high speeds that LED's. Copper wires can carry a few million electrical pulses each second. but the number of light pulses as optical fiber can carry is much greater. It is limited by how many pulses of light each second today's best lasers can produce. Recent experiments done at AT&T Bell Laboratories combined the output of several lasers to achieve as many as 20 billion pulses per second! This far outshines the number transmitted by copper wires. How do telephones connected by optical fibers work? In the mouthpiece of a telephone, the pattern of sound waves of your voice is first changed into a pattern of waves of electricity moving through copper wire. In a fiber optic system, a special electronic device called an encoder measures samples of the waves of electricity eight thousand times each second. Then, each measurement of the waves is changed into a series of eight ON-OFF pulses of light. The pulses of light are a code that stands for the strength or height of the waves of electricity. This is called a binary code because it uses only two signals or digits; zero for when the light is OFF and one for when the light is ON. The word "binary" means two. Each zero or one is called a binary digit or bit. And each pulse of ON-OFF light stands for one piece or bit of information. Eight bits grouped together are a byte. The specks of ON-OFF light flash like tiny comets through optical fiber carrying your message in binary code. At the other end of the line is another device called a decoder. The decoder changes the pulses of light back into electrical waves. The receiver of the telephone then changes the electrical waves back into the sound waves of your voice. The coded pulses of light in a fiber optic system can carry so much information so rapidly that many telephone conversations can be stacked in an optical fiber. They are then unscrambled at the other end of the line. Because a fiber optic system uses coded pulses of ON-OFF light, it is ideal to link together computers. Computers "speak" this binary language. They not only count in binary, computers also store and handle huge amounts of information as a code of zeros and ones. The entire 2,700 pages of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary can be transmitted from one computer to another over optical fibers in six seconds! Morse Code is a binary code you may already know. Instead of zeros and ones, Samuel Morse, used dots and dashes to send any message by telegraph. The dots and dashes can stand for any letter of the alphabet or any decimal number. Here are two binary codes. One international Mores Code and the other is a computer code known as the America Standard Code for Information Interchange or ASCII-8. ---------------------------------- Morse Code ---------------------------------- . = DOT - = DASH .- A -... B -.-. C -.. D . E ..-. F --. G .... H .. I .--- J -.- K .-.. L -- M -. N --- O .--. P --.- Q .-. R ... S - T ..- U ...- V .-- W -..- X --.. Z .---- 1 ..--- 2 ...-- 3 ....- 4 ..... 5 -.... 6 --... 7 ---.. 8 ----. 9 ----- 0 .-.-.- Period (.) --..-- , ..--.. ? ........ Error -...- Double Dash (=) ---... : -.-.-. ; -.--. ( -.--.- ) -..-. / .-..-. " ...-..- $ .----. ' .-.-.. Paragraph ..--.- Underline (_) -.-.- Start Signal .-... Wait .-.-. End of Message (EOM) -.- Invitation to transmit ...-.- End of Work ...-. Understood/Acknowledge Other Morse signals used ..-.- Interrogatory ....-- Emergency silence ..-..- Executive follows ----- Break-in ...---... Emergency (SOS) -..-..-.. Distress signal relay ---------------------------------- ASCII-8 ---------------------------------- 11100001 A 11100010 B 11100011 C 11100100 D 11100101 E 11100110 F 11100111 G 11101000 H 11101001 I 11101010 J 11101011 K 11101100 L 11101101 M 11101110 N 11101111 O 11110000 P 11110001 Q 11110010 R 11110011 S 11110100 T 11110101 U 11110110 V 11110111 W 11111000 X 11111010 Z 01010001 1 01010010 2 01010011 3 01010100 4 01010101 5 01010110 6 01010111 7 01011000 8 01011001 9 01010000 0 01001110 Period (.) 01011111 ? 01000001 ! 01001100 ,(comma) 01000010 "(quotation mark) Morse Code and ASCII-8 may seem awkward. But Morse Code made possible sending messages quickly by telegraph over long distances as early as 1845. Today, computers linked by optical fibers can send vast amounts of any kind of information, including pictures. And they can do it faster than the human mind can think. . : | +-> nodal disaster recovery procedure <-+------------------------ --- --- 1.0 Scope: This document presents the procedures, equipment and personnel required by ntl Teesside to deal with a nodal disaster occurrence. A nodal disaster will have been deemed to have occurred when >1000 customers have lost Catv or when >100 customers have lost telephony service in the same nodal area. Examples of nodal disaster causes are : 1. Damage to cabinet by vehicle or vandalism. 2. Failure of higher order transmission card. 3. Failure of Catv optical equipment. 4. Damage to fibre optic or Catv trunk feeder cable. 5. Widescale Northern Electric outage. N.B. Damage to a fibre optic or Catv feeder cable will be deemed to be an outage even if it is non-service affecting. 2.0 Safety: This procedure does not necessarily detail all the precautions necessary to meet the requirements of the Health & Safety At Work Act 1974. Attention should be paid to any appropriate safety precautions and this procedure should only be carried out by trained personnel. In all cases of a disaster occurring all relevant health and safety practices must be followed. The need for signing and guarding is paramount. 3.0 Glossary: Catv-Cable television services. Telco-Telephony services. NCC-Network Control Centre. 4.0 General information: It is envisaged that a "dummy run" will take place during the year to ensure that all relevant personnel attend site and that the procedure is followed. Equipment: In order that the Maintenance and Service Department can deal with, and respond to, any disaster scenario it will be necessary to have spare equipment readily available to replace damaged / faulty equipment in the field. All types of cabinet will be held in the hard standing area of the warehouse, except the Type 3 cabinets which will be held in the Maintenance Warehouse area, all of which will be readily available should the need arise to replace a damaged cabinet. There will be a trailer available to enable transportation of a cabinet to the disaster scene. This trailer will also be kitted out to allow fibre splicing to take place in a clean and safe environment. In some cases it may not be possible to replace the Type 3 cabinet immediately i.e. the plinth is damaged. In these cases it will be necessary to transport the hot rack from the test/store area to site and feed service from it. In these cases the on Site Manager / Supervisor will make a decision on where the best site for the temporary rack would be. The distribution and fibre cables should be pulled back and fed direct to the hot rack from the chamber. This will allow the plinth to be changed out without fear of damage to any of the cables. In cases where the plinth has to be replaced , due to the fact that curing of the base takes 3 days, security will be arranged for the temporary site allowing the release of technical staff. Maintenance-designated drums of 144 and 96 fibre, which are longer in length than the maximum pieces in the network, are held in the Warehouse for use in the case of damage to a trunk route. 48 and 8 fibre is held in the hard standing area of the stores, and is readily available should the requirement be for smaller size fibre. In some cases it will be necessary to provide temporary service using mechanical splicing techniques. This decision will be taken by the on-site Supervisor / Manager. The permanent cable will be pulled in and cut over at the earliest opportunity. In the case of a fibre breakdown, the Catv services should be provided using the diverse route where possible. This will provide the customer with a degraded service in some instances. In such cases, Customer Services and Dispatch should be notified via the NCC. Backboards, complete with housings, jumpers and passives have been built up and are held in the Maintenance Stores area for deployment when required. All Catv electronics are held on a technician basis and are readily available. Telecom electronics will be held in a "hot" rack in the headend, fully configured, tested and ready to be deployed when required All sundry items, e.g. Pouyet & Krone strips, interface cabling etc. will be held in the maintenance store in sufficient volumes to fully fit out a Type 3 cabinet. After any disaster situation, a full list of equipment used should be passed to either a Hub supervisor or the Network Operations Manager. This will enable all equipment used in a disaster scenario to be replaced as soon as possible. In order to maximise the response to a major mains electrical loss four supplementary generators will be held in the Maintenance Stores area. This will allow Service Technicians or non-Maintenance personnel to aid the Network Technicians in running generators at the Type 3 cabinets in the affected areas. Responsibilities: The requirements of this procedure shall be carried out by departmental technicians, the Hub Supervisor, Network Maintenance, Network Build and Kelly Communication staff. During normal working hours, adequate resource will be readily available for all scenarios. In-house Maintenance department staff will be supported by Network build staff and Kelly communications staff. Out of hours, the on-call technicians will be able to call on an on-call splicer and an on-call Kelly cabling team. There is also an on-call Supervisor / Manager who in all cases will be informed. He will attend site and assume responsibility for controlling the situation. Each technician has a full list of staff telephone numbers should extra support be required. NCC staff will provide administration and testing support in any recovery situation, and they will also provide a central contact point for any enquiries during the outage period and supply Customer Services, Dispatch and any relevant Directors with hourly updates. Frequency: The requirements of this procedure shall be carried out for every nodal disaster that occurs. 5.0 Procedure : 5.1 The NCC will normally be the first place to identify a major outage constituting a disaster recovery situation. In all cases a Hub Supervisor or the Network Operations Manager shall be informed immediately. 5.2 A Network Technician will then be deployed to confirm and investigate the disaster scenario, and the Hub Supervisor or Network Operations Manager shall put the relevant personnel on standby for disaster recovery. 5.3 Upon confirmation of a disaster having occurred, the relevant personnel and equipment required should be sent to site. This should occur for all cases, both in and out of normal working hours. 5.4 The technician on site shall feed all the relevant information regarding the outage back to the NCC to allow NCC personnel to inform all the relevant departments with details of the outage. This information should include as a minumum : a) Area affected. b) Services affected. c) No. of customers affected (estimated if need be). d) Estimated outage duration. 5.5 This information should be updated hourly to the NCC and passed by them to the relevant departments. Any enquiries regarding the outage from any source should be directed to the NCC, thus allowing the Network Technicians to concentrate on recovering the situation. Under no circumstance should any of the field technicians be contacted direct. 5.6 On clearance of the outage, all details should again be passed to the NCC for entry in the event log, and to enable NCC personnel to inform all relevant departments of the clearance. . : | +-> Installation and Maintenance Guide for PDMX- E Shelf <-+----- --- -- - +-> for Back to Back MUX P-phone Delivery <-+----- --- -- - 1.0 Scope: The aim of this document is to provide all the information necessary to enable Installation and Maintenance of the P-Phone delivered via Back to Back MUX. 2.0 Glossary: LCME-Line Concentrator Module Enhanced, this is the Switch hardware peripheral that a P-Phone terminates on. MDF-Main Distribution Frame, this is located in the Switch Room and presents the P-Phone line cards from the LCME. CPE-Customer Premises Equipment. POTS-Plain Old Telephone Service. LC-Line Card, this is a NTBX21BC the card that supports a P-Phone. DMS-Digital Multiplex System. (The Switch). MBS-Meridian Business Set, this is the P-Phone. SRT-Station Ringer Test, this is a software tool that tests the signalling to the P-Phone and all its hardware functions. 3.0 General information: The P-Phone is a Nortel Product that is connected to the Switch via a Line card in the LCME. Lines and features are presented on Keys and Lamps. It was developed to present Console and feature working in a more user-friendly way thus capturing some of the business market being lost to the PABX and Key-System providers. In order to deliver this Service from a Street Cabinet, a Back to Back MUX configuration is required, and the Nortel PDMX-E multiplex shelf is used to this end. Any queries relating to this document should be raised with Network Engineering in the first instance. Responsibilities: The requirements of this procedure shall be carried out by personnel carrying out the Installation or Maintenance of P-Phone delivery via a back to back MUX. Frequency: The requirements of this procedure are to be followed for all Installation and Maintenance activities associated with P-Phone delivery via back to back MUX. 4.0 References: Further detail can be found in the associated Nortel PDMX-E Product Handbooks: Installation and Commissioning Handbook Product Description Handbook Phone unit description Configuration Software Tool 5.0 Procedure: P-Phone delivery is possible via copper cable up to a distance of 4 km from the LCME or 4 km from the P-Phone MUX in a street cabinet. The P-Phone line is terminated in the LCME on a NT6X21BC line card. This line card is presented via structured cabling from the LCME to the MDF in the Switch room. The termination on the MDF is jumpered to the Headend MUX MDF and thence to the Back to Back MUX port which delivers the Service to the equivalent port in the street cabinet. From here it is delivered to the Customer Premises by a standard copper drop, and once again terminated onto a MDF. The P-Phone is then jumpered from this MDF to the User position. P-phone delivery via back to back MUX 6.0 Installation and Commissioning: The PDMX-E Installation and Testing can be broken down into three stages: 1. Headend installation. 2. Street Cabinet installation 3. Back to Back MUX commissioning 6.1 Back to Back MUX Installation: 6.1.1 Equipment Installation - Headend. Install shelf, wire power connector and Management cable (Fig 1). Note, each power supply is separately fused (3A). Insert CENCA and two POSUP cards (no straps to set). Also insert the first MEGIF (type 261) and connect the coax plug to the DDF. Set links on PHONE card to �TO EXCHANGE� (see Fig 3). Insert PHONE card (see Fig 5 for card positions) and connect the MDF 6 pair cable. Configure shelf:- Install the correct configuration file (Ref Appendix 2): Menu: �File Open� <headbus.cfg> or <headres.cfg>) Menu: �Download� Set Shelf I.D. to allocated value Menu: �Remote, communications� Set �Q� Interface address to <0-255> as per Network Management tables Disable alarms due to cards not yet fitted. 6.1.2 Equipment Installation - Street Cabinet. Install shelf, wire power connector and Management cable (Fig 2) Note, each power supply is separately fused (3A). Insert CENCA and two POSUP cards (no straps to set). Also, insert the first MEGIF card (type 261) and cable to allocated SMA ports. Set links on PHONE card to �TO PHONE� (see Fig 3) and insert into required slot. For Business Nodes, wire 5 PHONE cables (6-pair each) to the allocated �E� side positions. For Residential Nodes, wire 3 PHONE cables (6-pair each) to the allocated �E� side positions. Configure shelf:- Install the correct configuration file (Ref Appendix 2): Menu: �File Open� <headbus.cfg> or <headres.cfg>) Menu: �Download� Set Shelf I.D. to allocated value Menu: �Remote, communications� Set �Q� Interface address to <0-255> as per Network Management tables Disable alarms due to cards not yet fitted. 6.2 Circuit Testing: Perform a �Station Ringer Test� on all 6 lines, using a Maintenance Test Line from the LCME at the headend MUX MDF, and a (test) P-phone at the Cabinet �E� side. 6.3 Management: Add icons fro each newly installed MUX pair Upload shelf config to Element Manager Ensure Alarms are enabled for installed cards Run a stability test for 24 hours, then check that no G704 slips have occurred. Fig 4 PHONE Card Connections Channel (SubUnit No.)PairColoursPHONE Card pin Nos. 1aWhite - BlueA2 bBlue - WhiteC2 2aWhite - OrangeA4 bOrange - WhiteC4 3aWhite - GreenA6 bGreen - WhiteC6 4aWhite - BrownA8 bBrown - WhiteC8 5aWhite - GreyA10 bGrey - WhiteC10 6aRed - BlueA12 bBlue - RedC12 Fig 5 PDMX-E Card Allocations 7.0 Maintenance Guide for PDMX-E Shelf. In order to faultfind on a P-phone line, a limited number of checks can be made whilst the line is �live�, noting that speech maybe monitored at the 2 Mbit/s interfaces. If a fault persists at card or line level, a process of substitution can be used to identify at which end the fault lies. To this end, a spare PHONE port and PDMX-E Highway Timeslot are available for Maintenance use, at each end of a back to back MUX. This allows the speech circuit to be carried over physically different parts. This process of substitution should be carried out prior to card replacement in order to minimise the disruption of traffic on the same card(s). For longer-term, intermittent faultfinding, a P-phone protocol analyser may be required in conjunction with logging provided by the DMS100. 7.1 Typical Faults and Consequent Alarms. General With a call in progress, disconnecting the Headend MUX line to the LCME will not terminate the call, neither will a disconnection of the Phone. Loss of 2 Mbit/s between the back to Back MUXs will result in all calls being cleared down. During loss of transmission, the supply to the P_Phones, and hence the lamps on the main phone and any add-ons will be lost, and are not updated when the transmission fault is cleared. Typical LCME / Exchange connection Voltages:- Voltage LCME open circuit *~53.2 V LCME connected to PHONE card~50.6 V LCME connected directly to P-PhoneOn-hook: ~49 V Off-hook: ~ 46 V * Note: the �open circuit� condition also occurs if there is a MUX transmission fault eg loss of 2 Mbit/s, incorrect card configuration etc. Typical P-phone Drop Voltages and currents (single phone) CurrentVoltage at T3 CabinetVoltage at 1 km dropVoltage at 2 km drop Supply voltage to shelf---~52 V------ No phone connected---~52 V~52 V~52 V On hook10 mA~48 V~46 V~44 V Off hook16 mA~46 V~43 V~40 V If phone works only when the mains adapter is connected, reverse �a� and �b� leg. The �a� leg (LJU pin 2) must be more POSITIVE than �b� leg (LJU pin 5). To confirm reliable operation after clearing a fault, repeat the Station Ringer Test. Initially toggle between steps 15 and 16:- 15.Press dial pad key *All LCD are on 16.Press dial pad key #All LCD are off and make sure all icons illuminate, including all those on the add-on units, each time for step 15. Then go through steps 17-27 several times. These MUST give reliable operation. Finally undertake the complete set of tests to allow sign-off of the installation. This must include removing the mains adaptor power and proving the basic functions of the phone. ---o0o--- Appendix 1 - CST Local Configuration Tool - (Overview) Connect PC (running CST software) to CENCA RS232 port. This overrides the �Q� bus management interface. Run the CST software - Enter <Return> for Password at the System Manager screen Select Remote - Connections, which gives Remote Control window. Check options are set to the following :- Set System Address to Shelf I.D. value = <0-255> Comm port = <as required by laptop> Baud rate = <9600> Select <Connect> Password = <Return> At �System Access Password, press <Enter> (no Password) Note, A �layer 2: No Response� signifies that a Connection has not been established to the CENCA port (eg can occur if the Laptop has powered down). Under Setup check User Class is set to System Manager (else options relating to parameter changes and File access will be greyed out). Upload config (under File menu) to obtain views of shelf as currently configured. In the case of a new CENCA card, open the correct configuration file (Ref Appendix 2), and download to the shelf. Once connection to the shelf is established, can view:- Alarms (select Units). Remember to use �Refresh� to update Objects - Units to find status of cards and configurations Objects - Connection points and / or Network Connections Clock Sources etc Appendix 2 - Configuration Files for PDMX-E A back to back P-Phone MUX is configured as BUSINESS or RESIDENTIAL each with 2 ends, giving FOUR configuration files. HEADENDCABINET FullyBUSINESSbusall_h.cfgbusall_c.cfg Config�d shelfRESIDENTIALresall_h.cfgresall_c.cfg For initial PDMX-E configuration, only the first MEGIF and PHONE cards are required. Under �Objects, Units� delete all unwanted units (and allow the Cross Connects to be automatically deleted). Note:- When upgrading a system with additional cards, Cross Connects will be added from the Network Control Centre, and held in the Element Manager. Thus, NCC will be responsible for the management of Cross Connects on a per-shelf basis. To provide for the eventuality of a faulty CENCA card being replaced, and if NO remote management is available, a configuration with a fully configured set of Cross-Connects may be downloaded onto the shelf. This will provide Cross Connects for all cards currently fitted, until the Config from the Element Manager can be downloaded. The Highway and Cross Connect allocations can be found on the related spreadsheet �p_highws.xls� Installation and Maintenance Guide for P-Phone Console Delivery via Back to Back MUX 1.0 Scope: The aim of this document is to provide all the information necessary to enable Installation and Maintenance of the P-Phone Console delivered via back to back MUX. 2.0 Glossary: LCME-Line Concentrator Module Enhanced, this is the Switch hardware peripheral that a P-Phone terminates on. MDF-Main Distribution Frame, this is located in the Switch Room and presents the P-Phone line cards from the LCME. CPE-Customer Premises Equipment. TDR-Time Domain Reflectometer. This equipment can display cable faults/discontinuities. TIMS-Transmission Impairment Measurement Set. POTS-Plain Old Telephone Service. LC-Line Card, this is a NTBX21BC the card that supports a P-Phone. MAP-Maintenance and Administrative Position. DMS-Digital Muliplex System. (The Switch). MBS-Meridian Business Set, this is the P-Phone. M5212-ACD P-Phone with Headset capability. M518-18 key add-on for the P-Phone. SRT-Station Ringer Test, this is a software tool that tests the signalling to the P-Phone and all its hardware functions. CLI-Calling Line Identity. BLF-Busy Lamp Field, this is a key and lamp appearance on the P-Phone for monitoring the status of line extensions. TLS-Terminating Line Select, this is a feature on the DMS that enable calls to be answered in the order of longest waiting first. CXR-Call Transfer. Back to Back P-phone Service Delivery 6. Installation Testing: The Installation testing can be broken down into four stages: 1. LCME line commissioning. 2. Back to Back MUX commissioning 3. Call testing. 4. Dial Plan testing. 6.1 LCME Line Commissioning: Jumper the LCME port at the Switch MDF and Transmission MDF to the allocated PDMX-E shelf/port. Check the line with a test phone at the Transmission MDF. (The audio levels are checked here when the CPE is commissioned). 6.2 Back to Back MUX Commissioning: (Refer to the Installation and maintenance Guide for PDMX-E Shelf) 6.3 Commissioning of P-phone Drop to Customer Premises: Measure Loop Resistance from the Type 3 �E� side to the Customer�s LJU (or MDF). This will be approx. 200 ohms per loop km. Also, check that the insulation resistance to earth is greater than 1M ohm. Record the results in the Installation chart. For drops more than 2 km, perform either an �analog� or �digital� line test. Analog Line Test. The following attenuation and noise measurements must be carried out with a TIMS test set at each end:- Measure the insertion loss @ 8 kHz. (Limit = 20 dB) Perform a background noise measurement, with a �C� filter (or �Impulse Filter�). Limit: 20 dBmC Perform an impulse noise measurement, with threshold set to -60 dBm, using �Impulse Filter� for 15 mins. Limit: 300 hits. Digital Line Test. This is described in Section 6.4 under �Line Soak Test�. A P-phone signalling analyser is used to log test messages across the Network, and confirms the reliability of the circuit over the final drop. With an In-Service test line connected at the Headend, connect the P-phone to the Customer�s MDF (or LJU) and check the line voltage for a reading between 48V and 40V (dependent upon drop distance and number of add-ons). On-hook to Off-hook reduces this by 3-4 Volts. Record these readings. Perform an Audio Level check on the line. All audio level measurements to be taken at the Headend MUX MDF, and to be recorded on the Installations Results chart. Note, P-phone line impedance is 900 ohms, so test equipment must also be 900 ohms for terminated tests. To confirm DMS line levels:- a.Connect a TIMS or equivalent to the P-Phone pair at the Customer end. b.Access the LTPMAN level of the MAP terminal by typing: >MAPCI;MTC;LNS;LTP:LTPMAN and pressing the Return key. The MAP screen will display:- c. Send a 1000 Hz tone at 0dB from the MAP terminal by typing: >TONEGEN and pressing the Return key. d. Measure the received level at the Headend MUX MDF (into 900 ohms termination, or thro� term across the installed circuit). The measured level will be -5 dBm (into 900 ohms) plus/minus 1dB. Record the results on the appropriate chart. e. Disconnect the tone by typing: >RLSCONN and pressing the Return key. f.Send a 1000 Hz tone at -10 dBm from the TIMS and note the received level at the MAP terminal by typing: >LOSS and pressing the Return key. The measured level will be -10 dBm (into 900 ohms) plus/minus 1dB. Record the results on the appropriate chart. g. Exit from MAP TERMINAL by typing: > QUIT ALL and pressing the Return key. Make test calls (1579, 123 etc) and check for good voice quality on a two way call, including other P-phone lines if used in the same Centrex Group. Remove mains adaptor power and confirm that the Phone�s basic functions still operate. Perform the Station Ringer Test (as detailed in Section 6.4 below) 6.4 P-phone Commissioning - Customer Premises STATION RINGER TESTING With the P-phone connected and powered by the local PSU, perform a Station Ringer Test. This is enabled on all P-phone lines, and is accessed by dialling 1578 + 7-digit DN. This confirms the P-phone hardware functions and allows the User to check for 100% signalling reliability to/from the DMS over the back to back MUX. Below is an extract from the NTP showing how to initiate a test sequence. Perform the test in two parts: Perform the complete test sequence (steps 1 - 38) to confirm all hardware functions of the Phone operate correctly. Repeat steps 5 to 27 several times to confirm that no digits are missed, or incorrect icons are lit. These indicate the reliability of the main signalling messages to/from the phone. If incorrect responses are observed, these indicate that there may be a wiring fault (high res), a double jumpered connection (open circuit �tails� should be avoided), or interference on the line. These must be investigated until reliable operation is obtained. If a more thorough test is required, or as part of a reported fault investigation, a T-Metrics Protocol Analyser and Laptop software can capture and record all signalling sequences. This is used in the Line Soak Test as detailed below. The Station Ringer can be activated by dialling: 0158 and the 7 digit DN STATION RINGER TEST : STEPACTIONRESPONSE 1.Establish off hook conditionAll LCD flash 2.Establish on-hook conditionAll LCD wink 3.Establish off hook conditionAll LCD are on 4.Establish on-hook conditionAll LCD are off 5.Press dial pad key 1.LCD 1 is on 6.Press dial pad key 2.LCD 2 is on 7.Press dial pad key 3.LCD 3 is on 8.Press dial pad key 4.LCD 4 is on 9.Press dial pad key 5. LCD 5 is on 10.Press dial pad key 6.LCD 6 is on 11.Press dial pad key 7.LCD 7 is on 12.Press dial pad key 8.LCD 8 is on 13.Press dial pad key 9.LCD 1 and 8 are on 14.Press dial pad key 0.LCD 2 and 8 are on 15.Press dial pad key *All LCD are on 16.Press dial pad key #All LCD are off 17.Press feature key 1.LCD 1 is on 18.Press feature key 2.LCD 2 is on 19.Press feature key 3.LCD 3 is on 20.Press feature key 4.LCD 4 is on 21.Press feature key 5.LCD 5 is on 22.Press feature key 6.LCD 6 is on 23.Press feature key 7.LCD 7 is on 24.Press feature key 8.LCD 8 is on 25.Press feature key 9.LCD 9 is on 26.Press feature key 10.LCD 10 is on 27.Press feature key 11.LCD 11 is on 28.Continue feature key press for all add on units.Relevant LCD will be on. 29.Press RLS key LCD 2 and 8 are on 30.Press HOLD keyLCD 1 to 5 are on Dial tone on speaker only 31.Establish off-hook conditionAll LCD flash on main set only. Dial tone on handset only. 32.Establish on-hook conditionAll LCD wink on main set only. Dial tone removed from handset. Dial tone on speaker only. LCD 12 is on. 33.Press HOLD keyLCD 6 to 11 are on. Buzz Tone on speaker. Dial tone removed from speaker. LCD 12 is off. 34.Press HOLD keyAll LCD are off. Ringing tone on speaker. 35.Press Vol UP keyRinging tone Volume increases. 36.Press Vol DOWN keyRinging tone volume decreases 37.Press HOLD keyRinging stops. LCD 2,3,4 wink indicating that a circuit test is running . No further keys should be pressed as this may affect the circuit test results. Any keys pressed during the circuit test will not be acknowledged; that is , lamps are not changed. LCD 1-8 are on , the circuit test is done, passed. LCD 1, 2 and 8 are on, circuit test done , failed. LCD 1, 2 and 8 wink indicating that the circuit test is done, not run, or has timed out. The LCD display window will show a result of the Station Ringer Test. A Full Pass will show 10/10 Or another figure out of 10. 38.Press HOLD keyWill exit from S.R.T. NOTES: If at any stage you wish to exit from the S.R.T then pressing the HOLD key 6 times will end the test. LINE SOAK TEST For Customer line commissioning where the drop length is more than ~3 km, and particularly where the cable is shared with 20 or more POTS lines, a thorough test should be performed to confirm the reliability of the Phone�s functions (ie signalling). This test uses a T-Metrics Protocol Analyser and Laptop software which can capture and record all signalling sequences. Transmission Engineering will assist if required. Perform a line Soak Test for at least 12 hours. Use the T-Metrics TM-950 (plus laptop) at the Headend MDF (representing the Switch) to inject messages into the Back to Back MUX. Use the TM-500 (plus laptop) to receive the test messages at the Customer�s MDF. Examine the log to ensure that no more than 2 errors occurs per hour over the test duration. (Errors are flagged as either a missed message, or as �Parity Error�. These are indicated for messages in EITHER direction). The analyser operates in a through mode (high impedance) so does not affect the operation of the installed phone line. An example log output is shown in Fig. 5 below. 7. Call Testing: Call testing is made to ensure that the translations are set-up correctly on the Switch and that CLI is passed to and from the P-Phone. It also tests the Transfer capability of the Set. a.Make a call from Key 1 on the P-Phone to BT line. Ensure CLI is passed. b.Make a call from Key 1 on the P-Phone to a BT line but withhold CLI by prefixing the BT number with 141. Ensure that CLI is withheld. c.Make a call from a BT line to the P-Phone passing CLI. Ensure that CLI is displayed on the P-Phone. d.Make a call from a BT line to the P-Phone withholding CLI. Ensure that CLI is withheld on the P-Phone. e.Make two calls into the P-Phone from a BT line and ensure the calls can be transferred to another line. One internal transfer and one external transfer. Check that the P-Phone displays transfer information. 8. Dial Plan Testing: Obtain a copy of the dial plan for the customer group and make enough calls to prove the datafill is correct for the customer group and NCOS. Maintenance Specification for P-Phone Console delivery via Back to Back MUX. Fault finding can be carried out from the MAP terminal in the Switch and the following steps detail the procedure to be carried out and the responses expected on the MAP terminal. These test should be used in conjunction with the Line up tests detailed in the Installation Document. This procedure can be separated into 2 Stages: 1.Posting the line on the MAP terminal. 2.Diagnosing the line. Section 1 Posting the line card. The line can be �posted� by two means, either by directory number (DN) or by line equipment number (LEN). a.Login to the Map terminal. b.Access the Line Test Position (LTP) menu by typing: >MAPCI;MTC;LNS;LTP and pressing the Return key. The Map terminal will show the screen below: c. Post the Line Card by typing: >POST L HOST len and pressing the Return key where len = Line Equipment Number or >POST D dn and pressing the Return key where dn = Directory Number The MAP terminal will display the following: Determine the STATE of the line to be diagnosed, the above line is IDL (IDLE). Below is a list of the possible STATES a line can be in and the description of the STATE: IDL IDLE CPB CALL PROCESSING BUSY MB MANUALLY BUSY INB INSTALLATION BUSY LO LOCK-OUT LMB LINE MODULE BUSY SZD SEIZED Section 2. Diagnosing a Line . The line card can be diagnosed two ways. 1.By diagnosing LC only the Line Card will be tested. 2.By diagnosing I the Line Card and the P-Phone are tested. a.The line must first be posted as per Section 1, and then you can diagnose the card. Firstly BUSY the Line by typing: >Bsy and pressing the Return key. The posted line will now show MB under the STATE. b. Diagnose the Line by typing >Diag I and pressing the Return key. The MAP screen will show the following response if the Diag is successful: c. Return the line to service by typing: >RTS and pressing the Return key. The line STATE will return to IDL. d. Diagnose the Line Card only by typing: >DIAG LC and pressing the Return key. The MAP screen will show the following response if the DIAG is successful: e. Return the line to service by typing: >RTS and pressing the Return key. The line STATE will return to IDL. If any of the above tests fail then refer to NTP 295-1001-594 LINE MAINTENANCE Guide. DATAFILL FOR A TYPICAL CONSOLE qlen 2642136 --------------------------------------------------------- LEN: HOST 00 1 08 22 TYPE: SINGLE PARTY LINE SNPA: 164 DIRECTORY NUMBER: 2642136 LINE CLASS CODE: M5212 SET WITH TWO M518 ADDONS CUSTGRP: CCT_ST1 SUBGRP: 0 NCOS: 1 RING: Y CARDCODE: 6X21BC GND: N PADGRP: EBSLN BNV: NL MNO: Y PM NODE NUMBER : 224 PM TERMINAL NUMBER : 279 OPTIONS: LNR KSMOH NAME PUBLIC COMCAST CDC TEES CFF 2046 I 1 2 3 4 5 CFB F 2137 A 1 2 3 4 5 CFS Y 10 10 10 Y 3 TLS INCOMING AR NOAMA $ AUTODISP N $ CXR CTALL Y 45 STD INSPECT KEY DN --- -- 1 DN 2642136 2 DN 2642137 3 DN 2642138 4 DN 2642139 5 DN 2642140 7 DN 2642112 8 DN 2642113 KEY FEATURE --- ------- 1 CFF 2046 I 1 2 3 4 5 1 CFB F 2137 A 1 2 3 4 5 1 CFS Y 10 10 10 Y 3 1 TLS INCOMING 1 AR NOAMA $ 1 AUTODISP N $ 10 CXR CTALL Y 45 STD 11 INSPECT 12 BLF 1642642309 13 BLF 1642642307 14 BLF 1642642441 15 BLF 1642642303 16 BLF 1642642278 17 BLF 1642642308 18 BLF 1642642310 19 BLF 1642642304 20 BLF 1642642323 21 BLF 1642642451 22 BLF 1642642452 23 BLF 1642642385 24 BLF 1642642386 25 BLF 1642642388 26 BLF 1642642213 27 BLF 1642642258 28 BLF 1642642214 29 BLF 1642642263 30 BLF 1642642219 31 BLF 1642642231 32 BLF 1642642216 33 BLF 1642642251 34 BLF 1642642238 35 BLF 1642642335 36 BLF 1642642333 37 BLF 1642642223 38 BLF 1642642374 39 BLF 1642642370 40 BLF 1642642372 41 BLF 1642642261 42 BLF 1642642275 43 BLF 1642642428 44 BLF 1642642246 45 BLF 1642642244 46 BLF 1642642380 47 BLF 1642642382 --------------------------------------------------------- P-phone over Back to Back MUX Fault Finding Guide General With a call in progress, disconnecting the Headend MUX line to the LCME will not terminate the call. Also, disconnecting the P-phone during a call will not clear the call. Loss of 2 Mbit/s between the back to Back MUXs will result in all calls being lost. During loss of transmission, the supply to the P-Phones, and hence the lamps on the main phone and any add-ons will be lost, and are not updated when the transmission fault is cleared. Typical LCME / Exchange connection Voltages:- Voltage LCME open circuit *~53.2 V LCME connected to PHONE card~50.6 V LCME connected directly to P-PhoneOn-hook: ~49 V Off-hook: ~ 46 V * Note: the �open circuit� condition also occurs if there is a MUX transmission fault eg loss of 2 Mbit/s, incorrect card configuration etc. Typical P-phone Drop Voltages and currents (Phone only) CurrentVoltage at T3 CabinetVoltage at 1 km dropVoltage at 2 km drop Supply voltage to shelf---~52 V------ No phone connected---~52 V~52 V~52 V On hook10 mA~48 V~46 V~44 V Off hook16 mA~46 V~43 V~40 V If phone works only when the mains adapter is connected, reverse �a� and �b� leg. The �a� leg (LJU pin 2) must be more POSITIVE than �b� leg (LJU pin 5). To confirm reliable operation, repeat the Station Ringer Test. Initially toggle between steps 15 and 16:- 15.Press dial pad key *All LCD are on 16.Press dial pad key #All LCD are off and make sure all icons illuminate each time for step 16. Then go through steps 17-27 several times. These MUST give reliable operation. Finally perform the complete set of tests to allow sign-off of the installation. This must include removing the mains adaptor power and proving the basic functions of the phone. ---o0o--- Fig 5. Example Log from Protocol Analyser (at start of Station Ringer Test) Station Ringer Test, 2151, at start of SRT test routine T-METRICS INC File Name: D:TEST1.LOG Msg # Time Hex Sta. / CO Message MBS 1 code 51 17:41:42.98 0 00 Feature Key 1 52 17:41:43.18 8 AD Clear Display 53 17:41:43.21 8 8D Disable Display 54 17:41:43.24 8 B5 Locate Cursor at Position 16 (or 24) 55 17:41:43.27 8 9C Enable Display Cursor 56 17:41:43.30 8 9D Enable Display 57 17:41:43.33 8 9B Enable Digit Echoing 1 58 17:41:43.36 8 60 Key 1 On 59 17:41:43.39 8 0F Alert-Off 60 17:41:43.42 8 6C Voice-On 61 17:41:43.45 8 9C Enable Display Cursor 62 17:41:43.48 8 9D Enable Display 63 17:41:43.51 8 BB Resume Digit Echoing 64 17:41:51.81 0 15 Dial Pad 0 65 17:41:52.14 0 08 Dial Pad 1 66 17:41:52.41 0 0A Dial Pad 5 67 17:41:52.61 0 0D Dial Pad 8 68 17:41:52.62 8 8C Disable Display Cursor 69 17:41:52.64 8 9C Enable Display Cursor 70 17:41:52.66 8 9D Enable Display 71 17:41:52.69 8 BB Resume Digit Echoing 72 17:41:52.72 8 60 Key 1 On 73 17:41:52.75 8 0F Alert-Off 74 17:41:52.78 8 6C Voice-On 75 17:41:52.86 0 09 Dial Pad 2 76 17:41:53.10 0 0E Dial Pad 6 77 17:41:53.36 0 0C Dial Pad 4 78 17:41:53.57 0 09 Dial Pad 2 79 17:41:53.77 0 08 Dial Pad 1 80 17:41:53.98 0 0D Dial Pad 5 81 17:41:54.19 0 08 Dial Pad 1 82 17:41:54.37 8 8C Disable Display Cursor 83 17:41:54.46 8 08 Soft Reset 84 17:41:54.50 9 08 Aux 1 - Soft Reset 85 17:41:54.53 8 AD Clear Display 86 17:41:54.56 8 9B Enable Digit Echoing 1 87 17:41:54.59 8 9D Enable Display 88 17:41:54.62 8 9C Enable Display Cursor 89 17:41:54.65 8 A5 Locate Cursor at Position 0 90 17:41:54.68 8 60 Key 1 On 91 17:41:54.71 8 61 Key 2 On 92 17:41:54.74 8 62 Key 3 On 93 17:41:54.77 8 63 Key 4 On 94 17:41:54.80 8 64 Key 5 On A Typical Installation Record Procedure For Creating, Deleting and Modifying Mailboxes Remotely. 1.0 Scope The aim of this document is to provide a detailed procedure for the creating, deleting and modifying of mailboxes, changing of passwords and printing off reports. 2.0 Glossary Mailbox - The area of hardware disc storage and the software processes associated which constitute a Voice Message handling service for an individual user in its basic form. In its more enhanced form it can be used to build complete Voice handling structures such as Tree mailboxes, Rotational mailboxes, Broadcasting mailboxes or Fax handling mailboxes ncluding Guaranteed fax functionality. Voicemail - The Centigram system comprising the hardware ie. CPU, Linecards, Hard and Floppy drives and the software Operations and Applications which drive it. Tutorial - There is a tutorial which welcomes all new mailbox users to the Voicemail system, firstly explaining how the mailbox works and then guiding them around the set-up of the mailbox using voice prompts. The voice prompts tell the user which keys to press and when, it also invites the user to record their name and a suitable greeting which will be used to answer calls which are forwarded to Voicemail. 3.0 General information The Console interface is structured as a menu tree, the Main Menu at the top feeding into sub-menus. You step down through the sub-menus by choosing one of the letters in brackets to enter the next level and you exit back out by choosing X to save and exit or Q to exit without saving your changes. Responsibilities: It is the responsibility of the persons who make manual changes to the Voicemail System to ensure that the SMS database is updated and reflects the actual database on the Voicemail. An audit of the Mailbox data on the Voicemail system should be run on the last working day of the month and checked against the SMS database. Frequency: The requirements of this procedure are to be followed for every Voicemail System change carried out. 4.0 Procedure: Preparation. Set up a PC / Laptop with a Terminal file called VMS.TRM holding the following settings:- VT100 Mode 9600 baud 8 bits 1 stop bit No parity Xon/Xoff Phone number of modem dial 01xxx xxxxxx Choose the correct modem type. Click on Phone Click on dial to initiate access Important:- Always remember when you are finished and have logged out of the Voicemail System that you have to click on hangup otherwise the modem will not clear down. You would be advised to save your terminal file for subsequent use, it will save you configuring the terminal settings again. Once you have established access hit the carriage return (from now on specified as c/r) and follow the prompts as follows:- PROMPT RESPONSE LOGIN: root c/r The Voicemail console boots up and presents you with the Main Menu as follows:- MAIN MENU (M) Mailbox maintenance (R) Report generation (S) System maintenance (X) Exit Typing m enters the :- MAILBOX MAINTENANCE MENU. (B) Mailbox block inquiry. (C) Create new mailboxes. (D) Delete mailboxes. (E) Mailbox dump. (I) Inquire about mailboxes. (K) Copy/Delete/Enable mailbox greetings. (C) List Maintenance. (M) Modify mailboxes. (P) Set passcode/ tutorial. (R) Rotational mailboxes. (S) Search for mailboxes. (U) UI mailbox mappings. (V) UI extension mappings. (W) Mailbox disk speech usage. (X) Exit. To Modify Mailboxes. Enter m Prompt Enter mailbox to modify : 16xxxxxxxx or 1325xxxxxx New mailbox number (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New name : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New Department code: (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New access code : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New Receptionist day treatment : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New mailbox's extension number : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New mailboxes pre-dial extension index (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New Attendant extension number : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New Attendant pre-dial extension index: (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New FCOS : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New LCOS : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New GCOS : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New NCOS : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New TCOS : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New RCOS : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New message speech quality (18,24,32,0) : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New name and greeting speech quality: (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New Internal Outdial Index : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New Billed Outdial Index : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New Unbilled Outdial Index : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New billing number : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New billing dialling order : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New message waiting type � 1 : 17 New message waiting type � 2 : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New message waiting type � 3 : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New fax retrieval access type : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) Default telephone number for fax retrieval : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New call placement access type : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) New time zone offset : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) Lists with change rights : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) Lists with review rights : (new value or c/r to leave unchanged) Prompt Enter Mailbox to modify : If there are further mailboxes to modify enter the next mailbox number, and follow the above procedure again. Else:- c/r takes you to MAILBOX MAINTENANCE MENU NB:- If you wish to leave the system at this point x exits to the MAIN MENU. A further x exits the system and logs out. To Delete Mailboxes: From the MAIN MENU type m to enter the MAILBOX MAINTENANCE MENU. Enter d Prompt Enter Mailbox to delete : 16xxxxxxxx (or 1325xxxxxx) Delete UI mailbox mappings (y/n) : y Delete (y/n) : y