ISDN info available on World Wide Web [periodic posting]
Daniel R. Kegel
it lets you flip between product info from different ISDN card,
software, and ISDN Internet access vendors quickly, making comparisons easy.
It also has links to all known online technical specs related to ISDN.
You can even order ISDN equipment online (gasp!).
If you know of any ISDN info online not listed in my page,
write me & I'll add it. New info is constantly being added.
Dan Kegel
da...@alumni.caltech.edu
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p.s. (revised 15 Nov 94):
Several people have written me asking
1) how they can access my 'database' of ISDN vendors, and
2) how they can get their company into it.
Since my 'database' consists of a page on a WWW server, and contains only
pointers to WWW, Gopher, or FTP servers, the answers are:
1) You need Internet access, and a WWW browser like Mosaic or Lynx
to access the database.
Use the browser to open http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn/.
2) To get your company's ISDN products into my 'database',
you need to make info about them available on the Internet,
at least by mailing the info to new...@uunet.uu.net (which
wil post it to Usenet's comp.newprod newsgroup), and
preferably also as HTML files on a WWW server (i.e. Web pages).
I've written a small guide on how to put product info onto the Web.
Use a browser to open http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/webinfo.html,
or fetch it via ftp from ftp://alumni.caltech.edu/pub/dank/webinfo.html.
Once your company's product info is on the Internet,
I'd be happy to add it to my ISDN WWW page.
The page contains about 210 entries currently.
p.p.s. Here is an ASCII dump of its current contents. Each
line is a hypertext link to the vendor's own WWW server,
so the info stays up to date.
DAN KEGEL'S ISDN PAGE (19 NOV 94)
Note: This information provided for entertainment purposes only :-)
This page is mostly a collection of pointers to WWW and FTP documents
on other servers. If your favorite online source of ISDN info is not
listed here, or if you need help putting your company's product info
on WWW, please read my guide to publishing product info on the Web or
write me, Dan Kegel <da...@alumni.caltech.edu>.
The word NEW on a Table of Contents line indicates updated 10 Nov - 19
Nov 94.
Table Of Contents:
* What is ISDN, anyway?
* BRI (144Kbps) ISDN ISA or MCA Bus Cards
* PRI (1.4 or 2.0Mbps) ISDN MCA Bus Cards
* Workstations with Built-in ISDN Interfaces
* Terminal Adaptors (TA's) NEW
* ISDN Bridges and Routers with Ethernet Interfaces
* ISDN Computer Networking Hardware Vendors NEW
* ISDN Dialtone Providers NEW
* ISDN Internet Connectivity Providers NEW
* ISDN Shareware / Free Software
* Commercial ISDN Software
* ISDN Switch, PBX & handset vendors
* ISDN Equipment Distributors
* Search various online databases for ISDN
* Other ISDN user information sources NEW
* ISDN non-RFC standards information
* The ISDN API battlefield
* Internet RFCs and Drafts related to ISDN and/or PPP
* Various online discussions about ISDN
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What is ISDN, anyway?
ISDN cards and TA's are like modems, but 5 times faster. They require
special telephone lines, which cost a little (or a lot, depending on
your phone company) more than normal phone lines. For more info:
* Pac Bell's ISDN User's Guide
* comp.dcom.isdn Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
* Gary C. Kessler's ISDN Book
BRI (144Kbps) ISDN ISA or MCA Bus Cards
* CSI's ISDNAccelerator
* DEC ISDN PC Controller
* DigiBoard DataFire
* IBM Waverunner and its support ftp site, plus Review 7/94 in
PCWeek NEW
* Intel's Proshare Videoconferencing Board / PROSHARE.TXT / support
directory
* ISDN*tek CyberSpace Internet Card (Buzzword Approved!)
* Lion DataPump Low cost, built-in fax modem, PPP, CAPI 2.0
PRI (1.4 or 2.0Mbps) ISDN ISDN MCA Bus Cards
* IBM ISDN Primary Rate Adapter
Workstations with Built-in ISDN Interfaces
* DEC 3000 Alpha AXP, models 300X / 600 / 600S / 800 (No software
for ISDN yet?)
* IBM RISC System/6000 Model N40 Notebook Workstation (No software
for ISDN yet?)
* SGI Indy R4600 and how to write ISDN SW for it
* Sun SPARCstation Voyager (Uses Sunlink-ISDN software?)
Terminal Adaptors (TA's)
* ADAK 220 / 221 / 300 / 421 Terminal Adaptors
* IBM 7845 ISDN Network Terminator Extended
* Motorola TA's with Integrated NT1's:
+ HMTA-200: ISDN TA with integrated v.32bis/fax analog modem
+ UTA-210: ISDN TA with POTS NEW
+ UTA-220: ISDN TA with BONDING
* Racal Datacom BRI 2000 A-DAP-ter / Multirate DSU
* ZyXEL 2864 Series NEW
ISDN Bridges and Routers with Ethernet Interfaces
* ACC Amazon
* ACC Nile
* Ascend Pipeline 50
* Ascend MAX
* Cisco 2500 / 3000 / 4000 / 4500 / 2500 ISA Bus Card (which
supports the little-known IDSN, predecessor to ISDN :-)
* Combinet CB-150 / CB-160 / CB-200 / CB-300 / CB-400 / CB-600 /
CB-900
* CSI PRI-MPG
* DECbrouter 90 Multiprotocol Bridge Router
* IBM 2210 Nways Multiprotocol Router
* ISDyNe ISDN-for-Netware Router 66
* NEC's Dr. BonD Multi-Access Dial Router
* Network Express ISDN Router
* Network Express ISDN InterHub / Review, 7/94, PCWeek NEW
ISDN Computer Networking Hardware Vendors
* Advanced Computer Communications
* Ascend Communications, Inc.
* Cisco & their area on UUNET's ftp server
* Combinet
* Connective Strategies, Inc. (CSI) (Great page on provisioning!)
* Digital Equipment Corp.
* Digiboard
* Hayes in days of yore: 1990 / 1992 (When will they get a WWW
server? 1996?)
* IBM
* Intel
* ISDN'tek
* Motorola Transmission Products Division
* NEC
* Network Express
* Silicon Graphics (SGI)
* Racal Datacom
* Sun Microsystems
* Telebit
* ZyXEL NEW
* FAQ's list of vendors
* Linas Vepstas' list of ISDN vendors for PC connectivity
ISDN Dialtone Providers
* Pacific Bell (California, USA)
* Sprint_ISDN
* New England Telephone
* Southwestern Bell Telephone NEW
* Southwest Bell Tariff
* US West ISDN Tariff [13-Apr 13:47:28, 37KB]
ISDN Internet Connectivity Providers
* California
+ CERFnet
+ Market.NET Connection Services (Bay Area) (Winner, Most
Willing To Quote Price Award :-)
+ InterNex Information Services (Bay Area)
+ Scruz-Net (Bay Area)
+ North Bay Network
* Pacific Northwest
+ RAINet
+ NWNexus
* Texas
+ ICUS: Presentation (Slides, Notes) "ISDN: Getting Connected
in Austin, TX"
+ Eden Matrix
+ Freeside Communications, Inc.
+ OuterNet Connections
+ Real/Time Communications
+ Sig.net
+ Zilker Internet Park
* Northeastern USA
+ UltraNet Communications (Mass)
+ TerraNet (Massachusetts)
+ Cloud 9 Consulting (New York)
+ PANIX (New York)
+ INTAC.COM (New York)
+ Intelecom Data Systems NEW
+ Destek Internet Access Services (New Hampshire)
+ New York Metro Area Internet Providers List
+ Internet Presence & Publishing (Virginia)
* Midwestern USA
+ Chicago Area Providers List (Text) / (Web)
* Southern USA
+ ISDNet (Southeast USA)
+ Internet Atlanta
+ Nuance Network Services (Alabama)
+ TachNet (Florida) NEW
* USA overall
+ PSI's Interramp
+ Ameritech (WWW) (corporate, educational info)
+ Ameritech (FTP) (Internet services announcement)
+ Sprint
+ InterNic's List of US Internet Providers
* Canada
+ BCnet (British Columbia, Canada)
* Germany
+ DFN-Verein (here are notes re isdn)
+ EUnet Germany and its PoPs
+ XLink and its PoPs
+ Individual Network e.V. (IN)
+ INS (Inter Networking Systems)
+ MAZ
+ roka GmbH
* Europe
+ EUnet Network Information Services
+ Genesis Project Ltd (Ireland)
+ OLÉANE (France) (where ISDN is spelled Numéris)
+ Ping GmbH (Switzerland)
+ PIPEX (England)
+ SWITCHlan (Switzerland)
+ Swiss Internet Providers list
ISDN Shareware / Free Software
* MS-DOS/MS-Windows
+ ISPA, an MS-DOS CAPI Packet-Driver for TCP/IP over ISDN
by Herbert Hanewinkel <he...@nmrvex.biochem.mpg.de>, 1994;
supports multilink PPP, many cards work with it.
+ PAPI, an MS-DOS CAPI Packet-Driver for TCP/IP over ISDN
by Dietmar Friede <ca...@friede.de>, 1993; no support.
+ CFOS, an MS-DOS CAPI FOSSIL Driver; adds ISDN capability to
many BBS's (alternate ftp site)
by Christoph Lueders <ch...@rhein.de> and Martin Winkler
<win...@zaphod.rhein.de>
+ The KA9Q Gopher Server [gopher.ubp.ohio-state.edu]
* Unix
+ Matthias Urlichs /dev/isdn for Linux; German doc; only
supports German ISDN at present
+ isdndrv-0.1.1 a Linux Character device driver for Diehl
SCOM-Card by Henrik Hempelmann, ma...@palumbia.in-berlin.de
+ IP over X.25 over ISDN for Sun Workstations
Commercial ISDN Software
* MS-DOS/MS-Windows
+ Microsoft
+ NetManage Chameleon MS-Windows ISDN TCP/IP software
+ Commercial Link Systems - BANSAI TCP/IP ISDN router (Germany,
ca. 400DM)
+ Combinet Connection Manager
+ Intel's RemoteExpress (Review, 7/94, PCWeek) NEW
* Macintosh
+ Farallon's Timbuktu/Remote
* Unix
+ netCS
+ Sun Microsystems
+ SunLink-ISDN (SunFlash 53.31)
+ SGI Indy ISDN Software
* VMS
+ DEC VAX ISDN Software V1.1
* Novell Netware server OS
+ Novell's Communication Software Products
+ Novell's Multiprotocol Router for ISDN
+ Novell's home page
ISDN Switch, PBX & handset vendors
* Northern Telecom
* Ericsson's business communication products (very slow from USA)
* Ericsson's home page (very slow from USA)
* 941003.02: ISDN-BRI Central Office Emulator
ISDN Equipment Distributors
* Capella
* Search Internet Shopping Network Catalog for ISDN
Search various online databases for ISDN
* Search PC Week Labs Web Server NEW
* InfoWorld Master Search NEW
* Lycos search: isdn -kegel (shows abstracts!)
* Search CUI W3 Catalog for ISDN
* Search Veronica for ISDN; good at finding ISDN mailing list msgs
* Search Veronica, with your own search key
* Search Jughead for ISDN
* Search the comp.newprod archives for ISDN
* Search Apple Tech Info Library for ISDN
* Search Cisco's WWW server (sorry, can't preset search key)
* Search DEC's WWW Server for ISDN
* Search IBM Announcement Letter Titles for ISDN
* Search IBM Austin for ISDN
* Search Microsoft's Gopher server for ISDN
* Search Novell's Technical Support databases for ISDN
* Search Sun's WWW server for ISDN
Other ISDN information sources
* Network Computing's ISDN Online NEW
* Desktop Video Conferencing
* TCP/IP over ISDN. Frequently Asked Questions in German
* ISDN. Frequently Asked Questions in German
* Gary Kessler's telcom-related hotlist
* RARE Lower layer Task Force Local Internet Access (Europe)
* UCL (U.K.) Campus ISDN Infrastructure Info.
* Robert Raszuk's ISDN Page (Warsaw) (alternate server)
* Dixon's ISDN Page at UIUC.EDU
* Telecommunications Page at LLNL
* Bellcore ISDN group; Bell and NIUF documents on ISDN.
* NIUF's document on "Installing ISDN Basic Access in a
Single-Family Home Using Existing Wiring" (Maintained by Steve
Halpern at NYNEX, <s...@nynexst.com>)
* NIUF BBS terribly cryptic interface, slow
* North American ISDN Users' Forum (NIUF) Meetings
* North American ISDN Users' Forum (NIUF) Minutes
* The California ISDN Users' Group
* Texas ISDN Users Group (TIUG)
* Networld+Interop trade show
* EFFector Online 7.12 (see story on ISDN Interoperability Fest)
* ISDN Mailing List Archives (Norway) Submissions to:
is...@teknologi.agderforskning.no, Administrative requests to:
isdn-r...@teknologi.agderforskning.no
ISDN non-RFC standards information
* Multimedia Standards Survey
* Corp. for Open Systems - H.320 interop profile by bo...@cos.com
* ITU (nee CCITT) Gopher
* Info on the BONDING protocol.
Note: RFC1618 says "It is recommended that the PPP Multi-Link
Procedure be used instead of BONDING."
* Two cuts at an SNMP MIB for ISDN: isdn-9402 / isdn-9405
The ISDN API battlefield
* Common ISDN API (CAPI) Standard (v1.1) (English, plain ASCII),
script to add form feeds
* CAPI 1.1 Extensions for Fax, Touchtone, V.110, Novell(German)
* Common ISDN API (CAPI) Standard (v2.0) (Englisch; zipped MS-Word;
700KB) CAPI 2.0 supports more operating systems and telco switches
than does 1.1.
* CAPI Working Group directory
* NIST ASI docs (but why? Anyone using ASI?)
* NetManage's winisdn API for MS-Windows
* Intel's PII - multiprotocol plug-ins for Winsock (including raw
ISDN access)
Internet RFCs and Drafts related to ISDN and/or PPP
* Draft PPP Multi-Link Extensions
* Other Internet Drafts (zillions of proposed PPP Extensions)
* RFC1055 "Nonstandard for transmission of IP datagrams over serial
lines: SLIP", 06/01/1988.
* RFC1072 "TCP extensions for long-delay paths", 10/01/1988.
* RFC1144 "Compressing TCP/IP headers for low-speed serial links",
02/01/1990.
* RFC1332 "The PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP)",
05/26/1992. (Obsoletes RFC1172)
* RFC1333 "PPP Link Quality Monitoring", 05/26/1992.
* RFC1334 "PPP Authentication Protocols", 10/20/1992.
* RFC1356 "Multiprotocol Interconnect on X.25 and ISDN in the Packet
Mode", 08/06/1992.
* RFC1376 "The PPP DECnet Phase IV Control Protocol (DNCP)",
11/05/1992.
* RFC1377 "The PPP OSI Network Layer Control Protocol (OSINLCP)",
11/05/1992.
* RFC1378 "The PPP AppleTalk Control Protocol (ATCP)", 11/05/1992.
* RFC1552 "The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange Control Protocol
(IPXCP)", 12/09/1993.
* RFC1570 "PPP LCP Extensions", 01/11/1994. (Updates RFC1548)
* RFC1598 "PPP in X.25", 03/17/1994.
* RFC1618 "PPP over ISDN", 05/13/1994.
* RFC1619 "PPP over SONET/SDH", 05/13/1994.
* RFC1638 "PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)", 06/09/1994.
(Obsoletes RFC1220)
* RFC1661 "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)", 07/21/1994.
(Obsoletes RFC1548) (STD 51)
* RFC1662 "PPP in HDLC-like Framing", 07/21/1994. (Obsoletes
RFC1549) (STD 51)
* RFC1663 "PPP Reliable Transmission", 07/21/1994.
Various online discussions about ISDN
* Topic accessworks
* Topic ameritech
* Topic ascend
* Topic att
* Topic banyan
* Topic bell-atlantic
* Topic cheap
* Topic cisco
* Topic combinet
* Topic cos
* Topic gandalf
* Topic homeoffice
* Topic hubs
* Topic ibm
* Topic intel
* Topic interop
* Topic isdn_api
* Topic lion
* Topic mac
* Topic motorola
* Topic mpp
* Topic multidrop
* Topic nei
* Topic netcs
* Topic nynex
* Topic pacbell
* Topic rackmount
* Topic sgi
* Topic swbell
* Topic tech
* Topic teles
* Topic uswest
* Topic vendors
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Author: Dan Kegel <da...@alumni.caltech.edu>
Copyright 1994 Dan Kegel. All rights reserved.