January 2014 - VoiceOps - lists.voiceops.org

Maintenance for Performance Technologies SEGway
by scott＠socket.net May 17, 2017

May 17, 2017

We have been using a set of PTI SEGway x201s with point code emulation for a number of years now. We also have an unlicensed spare in stock. The maintenance contract renewals are due and the two quotes I've received are quite high. I know of at least one other company that has chosen to drop the vendor maintenance and take care of that in-house. I would like to hear from anyone that is currently using SEGways and find out what they chose to do for maintenance. I would also be very interested to hear of any bad experiences from chosing the in-house option. Thanks. Scott Stratman Network Facilities Manager SOCKET 573-999-4376 scott at socket.net 1-800-SOCKET-3 www.socket.net

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Fake Conferences CSCI and WORLDCOMP of Hamid Arabnia
by hailybrown＠hushmail.com Jan. 30, 2014

Jan. 30, 2014

Fake Conferences CSCI and WORLDCOMP of Hamid Arabnia If you have any thought of attending the world?s biggest fake conference in computer science, WORLDCOMP http://www.world-academy-of-science.org you must visit any websites below https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 or https://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4 The organizer of this conference is Hamid Arabnia http://www.cs.uga.edu/~hra a professor from University of Georgia, Athens, US. The primary goal of this conference is to collect registration fee by accepting all submitted papers. Several fake papers were published in the conference proceedings. He already earned millions of dollars from the registration fee and is using part of the money for anti-Christmas greetings campaign. http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com has additional information on this campaign. He recently started another new conference CSCI due to his hunger for money http://www.americancse.org Hamid Arabnia failed to reveal the reviews and reviewers' information for all the papers he received, despite repeated requests and challenges. The reason for his failure is there were no reviews and reviewers and he just cheated the research community for more than a decade by announcing that each draft paper is reviewed by two experts. We challenge him to publish these details at the conference website. Where are these experts? Where are these reviews? Soon he comes up with a story that he lost all the reviews and reviewers? information because of computer crash or theft. DBLP stopped indexing these conferences since 2011 and displayed an explicit message; The DBLP Advisory Board decided to discontinue indexing of this conference series. Visit http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/biocomp/index.html as a sample. He was forced to remove his name, the university of Georgia name, and university of Georgia email address from the conference?s contact page because the University has banned him from doing that. Do not spoil your resume by publishing in this bogus conference. Wikipedia?s comments on Hamid Arabnia are at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hamid_Arabnia&oldid Additional information on this conference bogus conference is available by searching internet using the keywords worldcomp fake or Hamid Arabnia fake Apologies for posting to multiple mailing lists. Spreading the news is the only way to stop this conference from harming innocent researchers. Respectfully, Many researchers cheated by Hamid Arabnia?s fake conferences

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recommendations for PRI/POTS/DATA CPE device with fiber handoff
by myaklin＠g4.net Jan. 28, 2014

Jan. 28, 2014

All, I was looking at Adtran's website at the TA90Xe boxes because I swore they made a model with a SFP port but I cannot seem to find one. I am waiting for my Adtran SE to call back so I thought I would email the list and see what everyone else is using in this situation. We run fiber directly to the customer premise. The customer wants a PRI, 6 POTS, and 10-20 Mb/s internet. I want QoS on the upstream to be solid, I would prefer a device which can terminate the fiber directly, and run all the services from the same device. If my memory was incorrect and the TA90Xe does not offer a SFP port should I just stick a media converter in front of it or does anyone else have some gear to recommend? Thanks for any tips, matt at g4.net

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Phone Numbers with Calling Restrictions
by jra＠baylink.com Jan. 22, 2014

Jan. 22, 2014

[ because Voiceops properly does not set reply-to, and Zimbra 6 sucks, and I was tired; I inadvertantly routed this reply to NANOG out of habit. I see a couple of NANOGers replied back here on-list anyway; thanks, folks. :-) ] ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Donahue" <tim.donahue at gmail.com> > We ported this to an underlying carrier (the guilty party shall remain > nameless), and according to their engineers they have no option to > disable the SSC. > > I actually have no idea if the call I am making is blocked at the local > switch for my POTS test line, the LD carrier, or inbound to our ULC (or any > other part of the path it might have crossed). This information was not > provided to me in the response from our ULC, but it would be interesting to > know for future reference where these blocks happen. Waitaminnit. The calls are being blocked... well, they'd have to be being blocked *before they get to your gaining carrier, I guess, right? That nearly *requires* the code to be in the LERG, so the originating CO can execute it. We have some people here who know the LERG back and fro; Paul? Anyone else? You ever heard of this? Can you originate a call to that number from a different carrier via PRI, and see which ISDN error you get back? Or have someone else call it that way? ISDN errors tend to have a bit more data in them. I'd do it, but I don't have any PRIs laying around anymore. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274

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Phone Numbers with Calling Restrictions
by jay＠west.net Jan. 22, 2014

Jan. 22, 2014

On 1/22/14 12:23 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Waitaminnit. > > The calls are being blocked... well, they'd have to be being blocked > *before they get to your gaining carrier, I guess, right? > > That nearly *requires* the code to be in the LERG, so the originating CO > can execute it. We have some people here who know the LERG back and fro; > Paul? Anyone else? You ever heard of this? > > Can you originate a call to that number from a different carrier via > PRI, and see which ISDN error you get back? Or have someone else call > it that way? > > ISDN errors tend to have a bit more data in them. > > I'd do it, but I don't have any PRIs laying around anymore. I do. What's the TN or at least the block? -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV

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Phone Numbers with Calling Restrictions
by tim.donahue＠gmail.com Jan. 22, 2014

Jan. 22, 2014

Hi all, I am wondering if anyone has ever heard of DIDs that are restricted so that only intra-lata or local calls are allowed to complete. We have never come across this before, but we are being told that one of our DIDs falls into a block with these restrictions in New York. Any pointers to information about this would be appreciated. Thank you, Tim

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Strange inbound Calls
by nick＠flhsi.com Jan. 15, 2014

Jan. 15, 2014

We've been seeing these as well. About one call a day. Sometimes as many has 3 or 4. Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "Jared Geiger" <jared at compuwizz.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:55 PM To: "voiceops at voiceops.org" <voiceops at voiceops.org> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Strange inbound Calls We have started to see something similar now. Except it is 2 minute long empty voicemails with return DIDs that route to nowhere. ~Jared On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Matthew Crocker <matthew at corp.crocker.com> wrote: Automated system trying to probe for auto-attendant and/or voicemail holes? -- Matthew S. Crocker President Crocker Communications, Inc. PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 E: matthew at crocker.com P: (413) 746-2760 F: (413) 746-3704 W: http://www.crocker.com On Oct 2, 2013, at 10:31 PM, Brandon Lehmann <brandon at bitradius.com> wrote: I'll have to dig into our logs a bit closer. We've been seeing a bunch of 1s voicemails appear from random calling numbers to one of our TFs the last few months. I attributed it to listing the # on our ARIN and RADB entries for our ASN but haven't had time to find the correlation. From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Nick Olsen Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:54 PM To: Jay Hennigan Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Strange inbound Calls If the call is answered by a human, They hear nothing on the other side. I will ask our receptionist to allow the call to continue for a minute or so and see if it hangs up at the 60 second mark. Timing our own IVR. It takes exactly 60 seconds, If you press nothing to get all the way 1 second in to voicemail. As these calls always appear leaving 1 second voicemails. Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 <image001.jpg> ---------------------------------------- From: "Jay Hennigan" <jay at west.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:25 PM To: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Strange inbound Calls On 10/2/13 10:13 AM, Nick Olsen wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We've been seeing a lot of strange inbound calls to our toll free > numbers recently. The only thing they have in common is the caller ID > text is always a city and a state. And the the call duration is 60 > seconds on the dot..Every time. Are the calls answered by a human? If so, what do they hear? If not and it's an IVR, if you call and say nothing does the call drop in 60 seconds? City and state are not uncommon for CNAM. Many CNAM providers will put the city and state of the rate center for the NPA-NXX if caller name isn't available. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

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Strange inbound Calls
by nick＠flhsi.com Jan. 14, 2014

Jan. 14, 2014

If the call is answered by a human, They hear nothing on the other side. I will ask our receptionist to allow the call to continue for a minute or so and see if it hangs up at the 60 second mark. Timing our own IVR. It takes exactly 60 seconds, If you press nothing to get all the way 1 second in to voicemail. As these calls always appear leaving 1 second voicemails. Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "Jay Hennigan" <jay at west.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:25 PM To: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Strange inbound Calls On 10/2/13 10:13 AM, Nick Olsen wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We've been seeing a lot of strange inbound calls to our toll free > numbers recently. The only thing they have in common is the caller ID > text is always a city and a state. And the the call duration is 60 > seconds on the dot..Every time. Are the calls answered by a human? If so, what do they hear? If not and it's an IVR, if you call and say nothing does the call drop in 60 seconds? City and state are not uncommon for CNAM. Many CNAM providers will put the city and state of the rate center for the NPA-NXX if caller name isn't available. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

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(cross post) VoIP heat charts...
by sil＠infiltrated.net Jan. 13, 2014

Jan. 13, 2014

Sort of off-topic, but sort of on. Looking for something that I can plop in some CDRs and paint a nice pretty heat chart picture of where calls are going. Anyone ever undertaken a similar task, if so, would you have a software you'd recommend. Looking to "heat chart" where fraudelent calls are going. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J. Oquendo SGFA, SGFE, C|EH, CNDA, CHFI, OSCP, CPT, RWSP, GREM "Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace" - Dalai Lama 42B0 5A53 6505 6638 44BB 3943 2BF7 D83F 210A 95AF http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2BF7D83F210A95AF

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(cross post) VoIP heat charts...
by jhoward＠ShoreTel.com Jan. 10, 2014

Jan. 10, 2014

I have used Google's Geo Map and Intensity Map (along with other charts etc.) for internal dashboards and it is really easy to use. I use it to visualize values which make sense in the context I am looking for whether it be a representation of call volume, minutes, spend etc. It probably isn't something you want to display publically but as an internal tool it is simple and effective. Obviously this is an external service but you are sending data without context to it so use your best judgment on whether it is appropriate for you to use within your IP and security policies. Jesse Howard ________________________________ This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. If it is not intended for you, please notify the sender, and please erase and ignore the contents.

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