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From: Steve Wolfson <motcid!wolfson@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: Jargon Overload
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Date: 5 Jun 90 15:20:59 GMT
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0004261818@mcimail.com (David Tamkin) writes:

>PT> It would seem to me [that Isaac and David] have similar complaints,
>PT> and the answer for both may be to obtain copies of the glossary files
>PT> in the Telecom Archives.  Look for the file entitled
>PT> 'phrack.glossary'.

>Providing definitions of the words and expansions of the acronyms
>cannot guarantee that everyone will understand the complete idea.  In
>the questions I asked that led up to that submission and in the
>earlier articles that lost me, the problems were the concepts and
>assumptions, not the words or acronyms.  I knew the words but the
>phrasing was ambiguous to my untrained eyes.  As a result, I couldn't
>understand the answers as they were given.  When I asked again, people
>repeated the same murky language.  That didn't help.

	Help is here (sort of) from AT&T.  I just received a mailing
from AT&T Business Communications Services for the following classes:

	VOICE COMMUNICATIONS I:

An Analysis of Voice Services and Applications     Course Code 26A

Audience: Communications managers, network adminstrators or
communications analaysts/specialists.

Topics:
	Communications Equipment (Key, PBX, Centrex, ACD)

	Local and long distance service
	(industry structure, jurisdiction, equal access, rate structure
	 comparisons)

	Communications Services
	(WATS, 800, foreign exchange [FX], tie lines/trunks, off premises
	 stations, remote call forwarding [RCF],T1.5)

	Networks
	(premises bases, enhanced private switched communications service,
	 software defined network)

	Communications media (microwave, twisted pair, coaxial cable,
	fiber optics, satellite)


Fee: $1195 for a 4 day class.

Two other classes Data Communications I and II.  Cover more lower
level network type stuff.  Cost/length is the same.

The number listed for more info: 1 800 TRAINER (1 800 872-4637)