At 2002-09-18 06:43 -0800, Elbert Smit wrote:
>> You could try calling: 050-5222263 or 06-0401
>> (perhaps that's now: 0906-0401?). In any case,
>> you shouldn't contact a commercial department,
>> but a technical department.
>
>Are these phonenumbers of technical departments?

The first one is the ordering telephone number
for the book: 'Algemene technische eisen voor
randapparatuur bestemd voor aansluiting op de
telecommunicatie-infrastructuur', voor de
telefoondienst serie T11: Hoofddirectie
Telecommunicatie en Post (HDTP), Bureau Toelating
Randapparatuur.

The second one is from 'Account Management
Infastructuur' (AMIS) and will connect you
automatically to the department of the PTT
district you're calling from.

But since these telephone numbers are from the
book of 1991 they're probably outdated. I
assumed however that when you would call them,
the people on the other end of the line would
be able to tell you more. Even if you would
just get a receptionist or concierge you could
ask him to look in the internal telephone
book, that most large organisations have.

>> Perhaps you could also figure out the maximum level
>> by studying the ISDN PCM norm, of which the A-Law
>> version is used in Europe. Consider that 56kbit/s
>> modems use the 65536 voltage levels of the signal
>> to code their data.
>> 
>> We used to detect call-progress states by counting
>> the number of times that a signal went through the
>> zero-level, which is quite easy to detect without
>> having to input and analyze the signal through
>> an ADC. I should still have the source code.
>
>I've used a laptop with soundcard and a high impedance connection to the
>phonelines to record the modem connections. If you use a sound-edit program
>like Cooledit2000 with a spectral view, you can see DTMF-tones, calling
>tones, answer tones, measure tone lengths, frequencies, etc. 
>
>I got this tip from a KPN-technician. Very nice and cheap tool, when you
>already have a laptop of course ;-)

Does it have to be a laptop? Desktops should also
be galvanicaly seperated from the mains, I would
think.

>So far, it gave a lot of information about the connections and solved some
>problems, but not all. 

In my time there used to be a lot of different
protocols still active at the PTT-side. There
were exchanges from several manufacturers and
eras. Currently it's probably all ISDN-based
and from the last ten years, but in those days
the exchanges could be much older.
We had a very old exchange in the old centre
of Delft that tended to blow up our bought
(EUCLI) interfaces.
After a while we decided to design those interfaces
ourselves, because we only needed part of the
telephone interface functionality.

Anyway, only looking at the interface of that
particular exchange wasn't enough and also not
representative.

Greetings,
Jaap


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