TELECOM Digest     Tue, 10 May 2005 18:19:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 207

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Cisco Says Swede Arrested in Hacking Incident (Lisa Minter)
    Power Outage Causes E-Bay to Shut Down (Lisa Minter)
    Microsoft Phone Software Runs Hard Drives (Lisa Minter)
    Actor Morgan Freeman Wins Cybersquatting Case (Lisa Minter)    
    Avaya Emergency Help Needed (Jason Kolb)
    Re: 1A2 Help Requested (Scott Dorsey)
    Re: 1A2 Help Requested (Matt)
    Re: STP Vendors (Thor Lancelot Simon)
    Re: STP Vendors (John McHarry)

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From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Cisco Says Swede Arrested in Hacking Incident 
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:37:48 -0500


By Andy Sullivan and Niklas Pollard

WASHINGTON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc.  said on Tuesday
authorities in Sweden had detained a person for stealing its source
code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet
traffic around the globe.

"We are aware that a person has been detained in Sweden related to the
IOS source code theft and are encouraged by this action," the San
Jose, California, company said in a statement.

Swedish police have declined to say whether their investigation of a
16-year-old boy is related to a May 2004 incident that exposed the
inner workings of Cisco's Internetworking Operating System, or IOS.

Police in Uppsala, a university town north of Stockholm, said on
Tuesday they had been contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
about a teenager already in trouble with the law in Sweden for
allegedly hacking into university computers.

Swedish police said the teenager, whom they would not identify by
name, had been questioned about hacker attacks on Uppsala University
computers, but had not been arrested.

"We have not received any formal request from (U.S. authorities) to
question or apprehend the 16-year-old," Uppsala police spokesman
Christer Nordstrom said. "But I can confirm that there has been an
exchange of information with the FBI."

The New York Times reported that the Cisco theft was part of a broader
hacking campaign that targeted computer systems run by
U.S. universities and government agencies.

Several supercomputer labs in April 2004 reported that computers
connected to the high-speed TeraGrid network had been breached.

A spokeswoman for the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico
confirmed that the facility had experienced an intrusion around the
time that Cisco reported its breach, but said no sensitive information
was obtained.

"Basically, they got into some local weather forecasts," spokeswoman
Monte Marlin said.

Source code, the underlying blueprint of computer software, determines
how programs work. Companies like Microsoft Corp. zealously guard
their source code because they consider it the lifeblood of their
business.

Cisco said last May that portions of its IOS source code had been
copied from its internal systems and posted on a foreign Web site for
several days, where presumably other hackers could examine it closely
for security flaws.  The company said at the time that the breach
would not put customers' equipment at risk.

The FBI said in a statement it had been working with authorities in
Sweden and Great Britain to track down the culprit. "As a result of
recent actions, the criminal activity appears to have stopped," it
said.

Authorities in Great Britain arrested a 20-year-old man last September
in connection with the Cisco hacking, but no charges have been filed.

(Additional reporting by Reuters Stockholm bureau)

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From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Power Outage Causes E-Bay Shutdown 
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:36:09 -0500


SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web marketplace eBay Inc.  said on Tuesday
that its site was temporarily down worldwide on Monday evening due to
a power outage at a primary hosting facility in the San Francisco
area.

The outage at the facility run by Qwest Communications International
Inc., shut down eBay's site for 100 minutes starting at 7:30 p.m.  PDT
Monday (0230 GMT Tuesday).

A company spokesman said eBay had restored global access to virtually
all of the functions on its site within three hours.

EBay said in a message to users that it will issue credits and listing
extensions as per company policy.

In an unrelated event, the site for eBay's PayPal online payment
service was down for nearly 30 minutes on Monday evening due to a
hardware failure in its Denver data center.

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From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Microsoft Phone Software Runs Hard Drives 
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:33:01 -0500


By Reed Stevenson 

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. , on Tuesday released a new
version of its mobile phone software with the ability to run miniature
hard drives and new features like a walkie-talkie style "push-to-talk."

The world's largest software maker has struggled in the mobile phone
world but sees a chance to unseat entrenched rivals such as market
leader Symbian Ltd. with Windows Mobile 5.0.

"We've made a heck of a lot of progress," Microsoft Chief Executive
Steve Ballmer said in an interview, "I think we've learned a lot." The
maker of the Windows computer operating system launched a mobile
phones unit about five years ago.

The cell phone market is a fragmented collection of wireless carriers,
handset makers and other technology providers that need to work
together to deliver closely integrated products and services and
Microsoft made a rocky start.

"With carriers launching higher speed networks the business case for
more advanced devices is starting to make more sense," said Hugues De
La Verne, analyst at researcher Gartner Group.

Microsoft's share of the mobile device software market is estimated at
16 to 18 percent, while Symbian is seen having a 61 to 71 percent
market share.

Symbian, created in 1998, is half-owned by Finland's Nokia, as well as
handset makers Siemens, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co., which owns the Panasonic brand.

DECENT CHANCE

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said that 40 hardware makers are
shipping devices so far using its Windows Mobile software.

In the United States, however, phones running Windows Mobile, which
Microsoft calls Smartphones, have been overshadowed by hot-selling
devices such as Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry wireless e-mail
devices as well as PalmOS-based phones such as the Treo.

Microsoft said Windows Mobile 5.0 would let e-mails pop up on a user's
phone as they arrive. The software will also work with "push-to-talk"
features, which allows phone users to chat walkie-talkie style, by
pushing a button when they want to talk to another party.

Support for hard drives could also turn phones into multimedia devices
that could store music and video, potentially taking the of a separate
cell phone and a separate digital music device, such as Apple Computer
Inc.'s iPod music player.

Microsoft said that it expects phones running the new mobile software
to be offered by carriers within the next few months.

Moreover, faster speeds on cell phone networks also mean that users
will have better access to online e-mail, data and content that will
provide a stronger incentive for them to upgrade to more advanced
phones.

(Additional reporting by Sinead Carew in New York).

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From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Actor Morgan Freeman Wins Cybersquatting Case 
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:33:54 -0500


GENEVA (Reuters) - American actor Morgan Freeman, winner of this
year's best supporting actor Oscar for his performance in "Million
Dollar Baby," won a cybersquatting case in a ruling by an
international arbitrator Tuesday.

Freeman was found to have common law rights to the contested Internet
domain name (morganfreeman.com), which had been registered by a Saint
Kitts and Nevis-based web site operator.

The operator, identified as Mighty LLC, misused the celebrity's
trademark to lure surfers to its web site in "bad faith," independent
arbitrator Peter Nitter said in a ruling.

The ruling was announced by the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency which promotes protection
of trademarks and patents, and whose arbitration center resolves
disputes over domain names.

Freeman, who has appeared in more than 50 films in a career spanning
four decades, joins the ranks of entertainers including Julia Roberts,
Spike Lee, Madonna and Eminem who have won their cases under WIPO's
fast-track, low-cost procedure.

Ownership of the domain name is transferred within 10 days unless the
loser launches a court case challenging the decision.

Freeman won his first Oscar in February for his supporting role in the
boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby," which also won Oscars for best
director, best picture and best actress.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I only wish I had the financial
wherewithall to file suit against the guy who is cybersquatting on the
domain name I used for a several years (internet-history.org). The
_very day_ that that the domain name slipped away by accident the
fellow (in Geneva, CH of all places) grabbed it, knowing full well it
was in use. He knew what he was doing ... and I thought that the .org
domain was such that his porn and commercial stuff would not be 
allowed (which is true if you look at the PIR charter). But it seems
the PIR charter, etc is subservient to the ICANN rules, and ICANN 
could give a damn less about regular web sites; their whole thing is
the large, commercial sites. I wish I had the money to get a lawyer
who would dismantle the whole setup. Alternatly, the guy who is
cybersquatting on internet-history.org said he would 'gladly' release
it back to me if I would pay his blackmail rate of eight hundred
dollars (and of course the fees the ICANN pirates would charge in
addition.)  PAT] 

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From: Jason  Kolb <jason.kolb@gmail.com>
Subject: Avaya Emergency
Date: 10 May 2005 13:04:21 -0700


Well, Avaya has gotten me into a bind.  Maybe somebody out there has
run into this before, it's worth a shot :)

We have an internal outsourcer running Avaya IP phones and an S8300
with SLP.  In the states, we have an S8700 that we need to use to run
the IP phones (the S8300 is failover).  Unfortunately and unavoidably
we are getting latency times of about 315ms roundtrip to the remote
site.  This seems to be on the verge of acceptable, because the IP
phones can sometimes register, but other times we are receiving an
error "2011 IP FURQ-NoQ931 msg rcvd Force Unregistration Request".  It
seems to be extremely random.  We called Avaya and it they said the
registration confirmation is not getting from the phone back to the
8700 in a timely mannger.  There are absolutely no firewall
restrictions of any kind between the phone and the 8700.

So what I'm left with is either finding a way to MAKE this work, or
putting a bunch of really expensive equipment up on eBay :( We are
looking for a way to override this behavior, either by extending the
timeout or forcing the phone to register somehow.  By the way, I'm
willing to pay for advice that works ...

Thanks for any help you can offer!!

Jason Kolb
jason.kolb at gmail dot com

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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: 1A2 Help Requested
Date: 10 May 2005 14:58:24 -0400
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)


Tony P.  <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net> wrote:

> Our PRI between our two switches regularly goes down for anywhere from 
> 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This seems to occur most between 8:30AM and 
> 9:00AM and then again between 2:00PM and 2:30PM. Verizon claims they 
> can't figure it out. 

Clock slip?

--scott

"C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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From: Matt <mattmorgan64@msn.com>
Subject: Re: 1A2 Help Requested
Date: 10 May 2005 12:06:55 -0700


Thanks all, for the comments, links etc -- I've gotten several replies
from the people in this group via email.

My KSU should be here tomorrow ... and the phones to follow shortly.

There is a bunch of the 25 pair cable up in the attic of the building I
work in; I even found one with a female connector on one end.

Now I'm shopping for a good punchdown tool. Looks like it's going to be
the most expensive part of this whole endeaveor (Phone: $45. KSU: $55.
Punchdown tool: $65 - 75).

Ah well, thats life.

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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Subject: Re: STP Vendors
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:03:25 UTC
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.
Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com


In article <telecom24.206.4@telecom-digest.org>, <tnerber@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,

> I am trying to find a list of STP Vendors. The only one I am familier
> with is Tekelec but there must be many others. Any suggestions would
> be helpful.

The big vendors in the market used to be Tekelec and DSC.  DSC was
eaten by Alcatel, if I remember right -- but Tekelec had just rolled
out new products that were more or less wiping the floor with everyone
else, integrating enough SCP functionality into their Eagle STP to do
local number portability and a range of other high-volume
applications.

Of course there were other platforms out there like the Lucent one,
mostly deployed at AT&T, and Nortel's offering, about which I know
very little -- and there were actually a few networks out there using
Tekelec's MGTS SS7 test appliance as an STP, which is a little crazy
but I've seen it work.

That was almost 10 years ago, about when I got out of the SS7
business.  I am not sure what's happened since then (I'd assume
further consolidation, as well as probably some business siphoned off
by SS7 over IP type boxes) and in fact I'd be curious to know.


Thor Lancelot Simon	                          tls@rek.tjls.com

"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is
 to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem."  - Noam Chomsky

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From: John McHarry <jmcharry@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: STP Vendors
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:53:48 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net


On Tue, 10 May 2005 05:41:30 -0700, tnerber wrote:

> Hello,

> I am trying to find a list of STP Vendors. The only one I am familier
> with is Tekelec but there must be many others. Any suggestions would
> be helpful.

Nortel and Lucent made them at one time. I don't know if they still
do.  DSC was a major player before they were acquired by Alcatel. I
don't know if they still are. Don't expect much from the major
European vendors; they use F links there.

Does anyone know why the US went with STPs instead of F links? Last I
knew, the Europeans thought it was because of a lack of processing
power in the 1AESS, but the Americans mostly thought the reason Europe
didn't was the hop by hop setup used there. Neither answer is very
satisfactory.

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