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5.01) Who is shipping what?

  ISDN Products by Vendor:

    +------------------+--------------------------------------------+
    |                  |            Product Type                    |
    |  Vendor          +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
    |                  | IF | TA | BR | RO | TE | IC | TS | VC | CC |
    +------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
    | ACC              |    |    | x  | x  |    |    |    |    |    |
    | AccessWorks      |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Adtran, Inc.     |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | AMD              |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |    |
    | ANDO             |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |
    | Ascend           |    |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |
    | AT&T             |  x |  x |    |    |  x |  x |  x |    |    |
    | AT&T Microelect. |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |    |
    | BinTec           |  x |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Cisco Systems    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Combinet         |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Conware GmbH     |    |    |  x |  x |    |    |    |    |    |
    | CPV-Stollmann    |  x |  x |  x |  x |    |    |    |    |    |
    | CSI              | x  |    | x  | x  |    |    |    |    |    |
    | diehl isdn       |  x |    |  x |  x |    |    |    |    |  x |
    | DigiBoard        |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Digital Eq.      |  x |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |
    | DGM&S            |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |
    | EICON Technology |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | EuRoNIS          |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Fujitsu          |    |  x |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |
    | Gandalf          |  x |  x |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Hayes            |  x |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Hermstedt        |  x |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Hewlett-Packard  |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | IBM              |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | INS              |    |    |    | x  |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Intel            |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |
    | ISDN Systems     |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | MERGE            |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |
    | Mitel            |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |
    | Motorola UDS     |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Motorola Semi    |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |
    | MS Telematica    |  x |    |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |
    | netCS            |  x |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Network Express  |    |    |  x |  x |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Network Svc Grp  |    |    |  x |  x |    |    |    |  x |    |
    | Paxdata          |    |  x |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | SCii             |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Siemens          |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |    |
    | Silicon Graphics |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |
    | Spider Systems   |    |    |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Sun Microsystems |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | Telenetworks     |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |
    | Teleos           |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |  x |    |
    | Telesoft         |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |  x |
    | Telrad Telecomm. |    |  x |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
    | TPI              |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |
    | Trend            |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |    |
    | Trillium         |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |
    | Zydacron         |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |  x |    |
    +------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+

      Key:

        IF: Interface Card
        TA: Terminal Adapter (Standalone)
        BR: Bridge
        RO: Router
        TE: Telephones
        IC: Integrated Circuit
        TS: Test Equipment
        VC: Video Teleconferencing Equipment
        CC: Call Control Software

Vendor Info:

ACC (Advanced Computer Communications)
10261 Bubb Road
Cupertino, CA 95014
Tel:  [phone]
Tel:  [phone]
Fax:  [phone]
Internet:  [e-mail]
WWW URL:  http://www.acc.com

AccessWorks Communications Inc
670 North Beers Street
Holmdel, NJ 07733
Tel: [phone]
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Internet: [e-mail]

Adtran, Inc.
901 Explorer Blvd
Huntsville, AL 35806-2807 USA
[phone]
fax [phone]

Advanced Micro Devices
901 Thomson place
Mailstop 126
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
[phone] (voice)

ANDO:
7617 Standish Place
Rockville, MD 20855
voice: [phone]
fax:   [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

Ascend Communications, Inc.
1275 Harbor Bay Pkwy
Alameda, CA 94501
[phone]
[e-mail]

AT&T
1-800-222-PART: Quick access to small quantity orders of ISDN products.
Personal Desktop Video or TeleMedia Connection System:
    Visual Communications Products
    8100 East Maplewood Avenue 1st Floor
    Englewood, CO  80111
    [phone]  (800)VIDEO-GO  Prompt 3

AT&T Microelectronics
Allentown, PA
[phone]
Distributer: CoSystems at 408.748.2190
  mktg: Steve Martinez at 408.748.2194 ([e-mail])
  tech: Gary Martin at 408.748.2195 ([e-mail])

BinTec Computersysteme GmbH
Willstaetter Str. 30
D-90449 Nuernberg
Germany
Phone: [phone]
Fax:   [phone]
email: [e-mail]

Cisco Systems
San Jose CA
1-800-553-6387
or 1-800-888-8187 ext. 6849 (salesman scott smith)

Combinet
333 West El Camino Real, Suite 240
Sunnyvale, California 94087
[phone] (voice)
[phone] (fax)
[phone] for product lit
[phone] for pre-sales support

Conware Computer Consulting GmbH
Killisfeldstr. 64
D-76227 Karlsruhe
Germany
Phone: [phone]
Fax:   [phone]
email: [e-mail]

CPV-Stollmann Vertriebs GmbH
Gasstrasse 18     P.O. Box 50 14 03
D-22761 Hamburg   D-22714 Hamburg
Germany           Germany
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Electronic Mail:
        [e-mail] (general inquiries)
        [e-mail] (IPX router technical contact)
        [e-mail] (IP router technical contact)

CSI (Connective Strategies, Inc.)
Clyde Heintzelman, V. P. Marketing
4500 Southgate Pl., Suite 100
Chantilly, VA  22021
Voice: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
Internet: [e-mail]

diehl isdn GmbH
Bahnhofstrasse 63
D-7250 Leonberg
Germany
Tel. [phone]
Fax. [phone]
email: [e-mail]

DigiBoard
6400 Flying Cloud Drive
Eden Prarie, MN 55344
[phone]  (voice)
[phone]  (fax)
(800)-344-4273
[e-mail] (email)

Digital Equipment Co
REO2 G/H2
DEC Park
Worton Grange
Reading
Berkshire
England

DGM&S
609.866.1212

EICON Technology
Montreal, Quebec
    EiconCard ISDN/PC ISA PC card.
    Supports 2B + D  "multiplexed" over single RJ45 connector.
    They provide s/w for Windows, OS/2, SCO UNIX, UNIX SVR4, Netware.
    List price $1395

EuRoNIS
Manufacturer of the Macintosh Planet-ISDN NuBus Card.
166 rue Montmartre
75002 Paris, France
Tel: [phone]
Fax: + 33(1) 42 33 40 98
[e-mail]

Fujitsu Network Switching
4403 Bland Road
Raleigh, NC 27609
800-228-ISDN
email [e-mail] (Rick Pitz)

Gandalf Technologies
130 Colonnade Road South
Nepean Ontario Canada K2E 7M4
(800) GANDALF (voice)

Hayes ISDN Technologies
501 Second St., Suite 300
San Francisco  CA  94107
[phone] (voice)
[phone] (fax)

Hermstedt GmbH
Kaefertaler Strasse 164
D-68167 Mannheim
Germany
Phone: [phone]
Fax:   [phone]

Hewlett-Packard
Nearest HP Representative, or
Pierre Vidalenc (Product Manager)
[e-mail]
Hewlett Packard
38053 Grenoble Cedex 09
France
Tel [phone]
Fax [phone]

International Business Machines
[phone]

INS - Inter Networking Systems
P.O. Box 101312
D-44543 Castrop-Rauxel
Germany
[phone] (voice)
[phone]  (fax)
e-mail: [e-mail]

Intel Corporation
Intel Products Group
5200 N.E. Elam Young Parkway
Hillsboro, Oregon, 97124-6497
FaxBack 1-800-525-3019
Product Info:
  [phone], in the US and Canada
  [phone], in Europe
  [phone], worldwide
Intel BBS 1-503-264-7999 (modem settings 8-N-1, up to 14.4Kbps)
Tech. support [phone]

ISDN Systems Corp.
Vienna VA USA
703-883-0933

MERGE Technologies Group, Inc.
211 Gateway Road West, Ste. 201
Napa, CA 94558
800.824.7763 (Voice)
707.252.6687 (FAX)

Mitel's Communicating Objects
360 Legget Drive
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
K2K 1X3
Danny LaPalme or Colin Caton
Phone: [phone]
Fax:   [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Motorola UDS
5000 Bradford Drive
Huntsville, AL 35805
[phone] (voice)

Motorola Semiconductor
[phone]
or local Motorola Sales office

Ms Telematica
via S. Marcellina 8
20125 Milano
Italy
Phone: [phone]
Fax:   [phone]
email: [e-mail]

netCS Informationstechnik GmbH
Feuerbachstr. 47-49
12163 Berlin 41
Germany
Tele: +49.30/856 999-0
FAX: [phone]
E-Mail: [e-mail] / [e-mail]

Network Express, Incorporated ([e-mail])
World Headquarters       Western Regional Office
4251 Plymouth Road       2694 Bishop Drive, Suite 103
Ann Arbor, MI 48105      San Ramon, CA 94583
tel  [phone]      tel   [phone]
fax  [phone]      fax   [phone]

Network Services Group
3421 Commission Ct. , Suite 202
Woodbridge VA, 22192-1753
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Contact: Neville Walker ([e-mail])


Paxdata Networks Limited
Communications House
Frogmore Road
Hemel Hempstead
HERTS HP3 9RW
UK
0442 236336 (voice)
0442 236343 (fax)
mktg: Jim Fitzpatrick ([e-mail])
tech: Giles Heron ([e-mail])

SCii Datavoice SO ISDN NuBus card
[phone] (Munich, Germany)

Siemens Components Inc.
Integrated Circuit Division
2191 Laurelwood Road
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1514
[phone]

Spider Systems
UK                         France                   Germany
Spider Systems Limited     Spider Systems SA        Spider Systems Limited
Spider House               Les Algorithmes          Schadowstrasse 52
Peach Street               Saint Aubin 91194        D-4000 Dusseldorf 1
Wokingham                  Gif-sur-Yvette           Germany
England                    Paris Cedex
RG11 1XH                   France
0734 771055 (voice)        (1) 69 41 11 36 (voice)  (0211) 93 50 120 (voice)
0734 771214 (fax)          (1) 69 41 12 27 (voice)  (0211) 93 50 150 (fax)

Silicon Graphics
http://www.sgi.com/tech/indy_isdn.marketting_spec.html
http://www.sgi.com/products/Indy/Indy_top.html
http:/www.sgi.com

Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC)
Mountain View, CA
(800) USA-4SUN

Telenetworks
US                                 Europe
Lauren May / Bob Gefvert           Ian Walsh (DIVA)
625 Second St., Suite 100          Kingswood House, 12 Shute End
Petaluma CA 94952                  Wokingham, RG11 1BJ, England UK
phone [phone]                 phone [phone]
fax   [phone]                 fax   [phone]
emal  [e-mail]

Teleos Communications, Inc.
2 Meridian Road
Eatontown, NJ  07724  USA
US voice: [phone]
US fax: [phone]
email: [e-mail]
web:   http://www.teleoscom.com/
Teleos Europe:  Teunis deVries: (v) [phone]
Teleos Asia:    Terence Tan:    (v) [phone]

Telesoft
Chris Cox
512.282.6701

Telrad Telecommunications, Inc.
135 Crossways Park Drive
Woodbury, New York 11797
[phone]
1 800 645-1350
        TelradPAC:  0B+D PAD      NI-1 & Euro-ISDN
        IDS:        V&D phone     NI-1
        MTA:        V.110 TA      Euro-ISDN

TPI
Tele-Path Industries, Inc.
221 South Yorkshire Street
Salem, VA 24153
[phone]

Trend Communications Ltd.
Knaves Beech Estate
Loudwater
High Wycombe
Bucks, HP12 9QX
Tel. [phone]
Fax. [phone]
email: [e-mail]

Trillium
310.479.0500

Zydacron, Inc.
670 Commercial Street
Manchester, NH 03101
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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5.02) How about that SPARCstation 10?

The hardware on the SS10 supports 2 B channels (64K+64K) and 1 D
channel (16K) for a grand total 144K in marketing speak.  Typically you
might use both B channels for data, 1 channel for voice and 1 channel
for data, or 1 channel for data to 1 point and 1 channel for data to
another point.  In some parts of the world it's also popular to run
X.25 over the D channel.

Info from the SPARCstation 10 full announcement e-mail:

  - What Becomes Available When:
        o ISDN
            Chip on the motherboard                     (done)
            ISDN Drivers on Solaris 2.1 or greater      (done)
            Teleservices API                            Q1 CY93 Solaris 2.x
            Wide Area Networking software               Q1 CY93 Solaris 2.x
            The chip on the motherboard provides a BRI (basic rate interface)
            ISDN connection that is integrated with workstation audio.
            The drivers provide a low level interface to the hardware.
            The Teleservices API enables application development for
            workstation/telephony integration - providing functions like
            call setup, transfer, hold, confer, etc.  The API is hardware
            independent so that it will work with third party non-ISDN
            telephony hardware and software.  The WAN software enables
            data communication - running IP over ISDN (in other words,
            applications that run over ethernet will run over ISDN).
            In the first release, Sun will support data communications
            in the US (for the AT&T 5ESS switch), the UK, France, Germany
            and Japan.  We will support voice services in the US (for
            the AT&T 5ESS switch) only.

This is also now available on the SPARCstation LX, and available as an
SBus card for any SBus workstation running Solaris 2.1 or later.

The current set of ISDN drivers for Solaris 2.1 or greater support
the AT&T 5ESS switch;  the next release is expected to support
DMS-100 and national standard.

Get API_xtel* from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/sun-info/white-papers for
more information on the API itself.  The XTel libraries, etc., are
not bundled with either Solaris 2.x or SunLink ISDN at this time.

SunLink ISDN description (quoted from Fall/Winter '93 SunExpress catalog):
The SunLink ISDN software included in both kits is based on the international
CCITT standard, and supports the following carrier-dependent implementations:
o  AT&T 5ESS (U.S.)
o  France Telecom VN2 (France)
o  DBT 1TR6 (Germany)
o  Britsh Telecom ISDN2 (U.K.)
o  NTT INS-Net 64 (Japan)

Sunlink ISDN software provides the following features:
o  Transparent IP connectivity, to allow you to run most existing IP
   applications, without modification, over ISDN
o  Graphics User Interface (GUI)-based configuration tool, for easy
   installation and administration
o  Security features, including callback, calling address, and PPP
   authentication password
o  Inactivity timer, for transparent open/close connections
o  Integrated network management with SunNetManager agent

[e-mail] (Dan Kegel)
[e-mail] (Tom Kessler)
[e-mail]
[e-mail] (David L. Markowitz)
------------------------------

5.03) How about that IBM Waverunner?

The IBM WaveRunner Digital Modem is an internal adapter for personal
computers (ISA, Microchannel or PCMCIA) which can communicate over an
ISDN line to either ISDN destinations or analog modems and FAX
machines.  WaveRunner requires ISDN Basic Rate service, an NT-1, and
either OS/2 2.1 or higher or Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher.

WaveRunner uses AT-style commands, can be used with existing
communication application, supports V.120 encapsulation and performs
TCP/IP SLIP to Synchronous TCP/IP Translation.

The WaveRunner Hot Line at 1-919-254-ISDN is available for questions
Technical Support.  For a product brochure, call 1-800-426-3395 and
request document 13403.  To order, call 1-800-IBM-2YOU (1-800-426-2968)

A complete description is available via anonymous ftp:

    ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com: pub/announcements/193-305

[e-mail] (Rob Jordan)
[e-mail] (Laurence V. Marks)
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5.04) How about that SGI?

Indy ISDN BRI:

  Available as a no charge option to all Indy owners running IRIX 5.2
  or one of its patch variants.  ISDN will be bundled with the releases
  after IRIX 5.2.  In North America, call SGI customer service at
  1-800-800-4744; otherwise, call the local support office.

CONFORMANCE:

  Indy ISDN has been approved for the following switch protocols in the
  following countries:

    - 1TR6 in Germany
    - Euro-ISDN in Germany, Sweden, and Finland
    - NTT in Japan

  Indy ISDN has been working with the following switch protocols in the
  United States:

    - DMS100
    - 5ESS
    - National ISDN1

  Countries other than the United States and Canada may require testing
  or approval before Indy ISDN can be operated in that country.  Please
  check with your local provider or with SGI before using Indy ISDN in a
  country that is not listed above.

CAPABILITIES

  The Indy transfers circuit switched data on the B channels.  A point to
  point (PPP) daemon runs in the background on the Indy and uses ISDN to
  set up a IP link to the destination machine.

  Both B channels can be combined using a round-robin packet sending
  scheme to maximize throughput.  This is sometimes called "inverse
  multiplexing".  It is also similar to "bonding".

  PPP can also be configured to bring up one or both B channels as the
  bandwidth demand increases and bring down the channels when the demand
  decreases.  This is commonly known as "bandwith-on-demand".

  PPP utilizes a variety of compression, thus increasing data throughput
  to beyond 128Kb.

  PPP uses PAP to authenticate connections.

  For more specialized data transfer applications which do not want to
  use PPP, an ASI interface is available.

INTEROPERABILITY

  The Indy is interoperable with the following:
    - Other Indy systems
    - Network Express Interhub
    - Ascend

MORE INFO:

  http://www.sgi.com/tech/indy_isdn.marketting_spec.html
  http://www.sgi.com/products/Indy/Indy_top.html
  http:/www.sgi.com

[e-mail] (Michael Wang)
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
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5.05) How about that HP?

The  HP  ISDN Link products for the HP Apollo Workstations (HP 9000
S700) and HP Unix Servers (HP 9000 S800) provides network connections
to public or private ISDN networks.

An HP 9000 connected to the ISDN network can communicate with any HP
or non-HP system which implements the TCP/IP protocol and which
encapsulates IP packets according to X.25 RFC877/1356 or with the PPP
protocol (J2460A/J2455A).  Also,  with J2461A/J2456A ordered, the HP
9000 equipped with an ISDN Link  can act as a non-dedicated IP router
for any system attached to the LAN.

The main features of the product are :
  * B Channel switching communication at 56/64 Kbps up to 384Kbps
    Up to three BRI per system are supported.
  * RFC 1356 compliant for X.25 encapsulation between ISDN and
    TCP/IP and PPP interoperability
  * X.25 packet switching over D channel
  * SNMP based network management

Major HP ISDN BRI Link Benefits:
  * Optimizes communication costs
  * Transparency for the end-user
  * Access to packet switching networks via D channel
  * Network security
  * Centralized management through HP OpenView Node Manager
  * Interoperability

To get some more info e-mail to:
  [e-mail] (Pierre Vidalenc)
  Tel [phone]
  Fax [phone]

[e-mail] (Pierre Vidalenc)
------------------------------

5.06) How about that Intel RemoteExpress?

The Intel RemoteExpress product comes in two versions, a client version
and a bridge version.  With the client version, you can access a remote
LAN in a seamless fashion.  When you log in remotely, your network
connections look just the same as the network connections in the office;
there are no new interfaces to learn.  With the bridge version, your LAN
administrator can provide you access to remote clients and to other
bridges.  Bridge to bridge calls can connect two or more remote LANs.

RemoteExpress software supplies several levels of security to protect
unwanted access to the LAN.  Embedded on every RemoteExpress board is a
MAC address.  The software can use this address to determine whether a
system is allowed access to the LAN.

The client supports a single BRI ISDN line.  Both B channels can be used
for a single data connection of 128 kbps.  Automatic channel expansion
is supported.  A standard analog phone can be connected to the
RemoteExpress board so that one can either make or receive standard
voice calls.

The bridge product supports up to 3 BRI ISDN lines (6 B channels),
supporting anywhere from 1 to 6 simultaneous connections.  With all 6
channels allocated to a single data connection, bridges support a
maximum transmission rate of 384 kbps (bridge to bridge connection). The
RemoteExpress bridge is an SNMP agent allowing the bridge to be
controlled remotely.  The bridge also supports Spanning Tree Protocol
(802.1 IEEE).

Clients support TCP/IP, Novell NetWares IPX/ODI, NDIS 2.0 (e.g., Banyan
Vines), and several other network operating systems.  Bridges are
transparent and will pass any Ethernet packet.

The hardware and software included in the RemoteExpress LAN adapter
(client product) and RemoteExpress Bridge Pack are made to run in a DOS-
based PC.  The bridge pack includes the RemoteExpress board and an
EtherExpress(tm) LAN adapter (Intel's ethernet board).  Also included
with the bridge is a copy of Intel LANDesk(tm) Traffic Analyst.

[e-mail] (Marjorie Panditji)
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