Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: BMUG Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Modeming on Electronic Switch System Message-ID: <2579@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Jan 90 04:02:40 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: BMUG Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 33 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 5, message 1 of 12 Perhaps someone from Northern Telecom or someone else familiar with this situation can point me in the direction of a solution... We have installed on our site an electronic Northern Telecom DMS100 telephone system. Because the system does not recognize normal tones, the system as configured will not work with standard modems, FAX machines, answering machines, etc. It *is* possible to get individual lines massaged to enable use of these devices, but said massage costs over $10/line/month (which gets to be kind of expensive when we're talking about ~25 lines). One thing I'd love to do is to connect a dialing device to our Macintoshes to enable our staff to use a software address book/ dialer. On a standard phone system, of course, there are myriad possibilities, such as modems and devices like HyperDialer. I'd like to find out whether a hardware interface to the NT electronic system exists, or better yet, whether someone has written a utility which will convert standard tones to whatever digital language the telephone system understands -- preferably under the Mac OS :-) -- to which the output from our dialing software can be sent and translated. Please respond via email, as this newsgroup is virgin territory to me. However, I promise to post a summary if info and interest warrant. Thanks! John Heckendorn /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarne |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 Phone: (415) 549-2684 | |