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Apt buildings--where is the demarc box? [telecom]

In apartment, condo, and co-op multi-family buildings there is often no individual "demarc" box for individual units. R...
8 comments posted 17yrs
posted by hancock4
8 comments posted 17yrs posted by hancock4

Texting May Be Taking a Toll [Telecom]

Texting May Be Taking a Toll By KATIE HAFNER The New York Times May 26, 2009 They do it late at night when their parent...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by monty
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by monty

1984 All Over Again? [telecom]

Wow... I feel like I'm caught in a time warp. For the past few weeks, there's been nothing but technical discussions ab...
13 comments posted 17yrs
posted by dont
13 comments posted 17yrs posted by dont

Re: [telecom] ANI vs. Caller ID [Telecom]

[There is a lot of effort] involved, [including] the amount of testing required (the amount of dedicated 'lab' equipmen...
7 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Wesrock
7 comments posted 17yrs posted by Wesrock

Re: [telecom] ANI vs. Caller ID [Telecom]

It's not as if you don't like McDonald's you simply go across the street to Burger King. You can't do that with your te...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Wesrock
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by Wesrock

Re: [telecom] ANI vs. Caller ID [Telecom]

While I'm doing that the person at the wrong number phones me and ask if I called her. I'm thinking to myself "You just...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Wesrock
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by Wesrock

Re: [telecom] ANI vs. Caller ID [Telecom]

A more valid real world situation is that a hospital, say, would set up their system so that the calls from pretty much...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Wesrock
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by Wesrock

Re: [telecom] ANI vs. Caller ID [Telecom]

> ... also disagree that Caller ID is a "hard sell". IIRC, the price > of it has doubled in recent years ($3 to $6 per...
2 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Wesrock
2 comments posted 17yrs posted by Wesrock

Re: [telecom] ANI vs. Caller ID [Telecom]

> Now that pay phones are rare and calls are cheap, many businesses > will let a stranger make a quick local call as a...
14 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Wesrock
14 comments posted 17yrs posted by Wesrock

Re: ANI vs. Caller ID [Telecom]

|| |> With the right C.O. equipment, it is possible to capture the ANI |> data in the call set-up and pass *THAT* infor...
57 comments posted 17yrs
posted by bonomi
57 comments posted 17yrs posted by bonomi

Re: ANI vs. Caller ID [Telecom]

I think the Bell System was ignorant of Blue Box hacking, because the WATS customers weren't aware that it was even pos...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Wesrock
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by Wesrock

Re: ANI vs CID {telecom}

> >> snipped-for-privacy@vt.edu wrote: >>> Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>> >>>> Take this quote [from Wikipedia] for instance...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by diespammers
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by diespammers

Wikipedia (was ANI in real time) [Telecom]

> For the hell of it, I read the Wikipedia entry on ANI. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Number_Identification...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by nmclain
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by nmclain