I do networking and telecom installs in a convention center for the various events and groups that come through, and we get a few hundred orders for telecom service a year. When they order a conference phone, we usually end up placing a Soundstation 2 or Soundstation Duo in the meeting room but that means also having to bring along the power supply and place that in the room as well. These things lead a pretty hard life and I would like to simplify the process somewhat. Since these phones get patched in our IDF closets, I've taken to patching the phone in the closet and leaving the power supply inside, rather than try to hide it in a room. That way the only thing that goes into a public space is the conference phone itself, and a cat6 cable.

Is there a permanent (preferably rack mount) power supply available to power these devices? I'd like to be able to buy a couple dozen, mount them in the racks and leave them there and just patch phones as I need them. Does anyone make such a thing? Google isn't really helping me out.

I like to dream of starting a WISP, and now that I am learning asterisk and SIP stuff, selling phone would be a good thing to plan for as well. My question is where could I get phone numbers from? With IP addresses you just go to the ARIN and get them assigned to you along with your ASN, who controls the phone numbers and how could I get a prefix?

I recently found out about the Google certifications like IT support and digital marketing. I have an opportunity through a friend to market myself to a small telecommunications company and wondering if any of these certificates would be good to put on my resume. I have no experience in telecommunications.

In recent sim swapping fraud or for protection from stolen sim misuse i want to lock my sim card 🙂. But i have a question ,, by any chance if i forget my pin then what will happen i will permanently lost my sim card ?

Does anyone have a study guide for the TCM exam (ETA)?

Morning all,

Recently I have signed with 2 “Master Agency’s” and am looking to go out on my own.

My father who is now a co-founder beside me has 30 years in the industry and our 3rd party consultant with 25 years.

My question here is how do we win. Door-to-Door, Cold Calling, Sms+Email Marketing, We will of course do all of the above with new hires and ourself but if you could give any piece of information and tips, any type at all. I’d greatly appreciate it…

——Currently been running 12 days and have made 3500$ in business profit——

Thank you,

Any recommendation on websites or any help would be much appreciated

I'm trying to do some reporting on some data another department at my employer is gathering and one of the distinguishing characteristics we noticed quite by accident in one subset of data while manually examining some test samples was the commonality of a virtual provider (in this case google voice) being used just because some numbers happened to be in the same thousands block that a local google voice user had. (I may be incorrect about how that works, but if so, please correct me).

This caused me to head down the path of possibly getting LERG data to pull in as an external data source to do lookups on provider type.

Unfortunately, while I've done telecom-adjacent work before (IT for CLECs/ILECs/etc), I've never directly done the actual telecom work myself, so I'm not super familiar with what data I'd need to make the type of determination I'm looking for.

I specifically want to be able to tell (as much as is possible given portability) whether a number or block of numbers is from a virtual provider instead of a standard landline/cellular company.

In pursuing a quote for LERG access (which is probably overkill for this) I was pointed at a different datasource which contains slightly less information and I'd like to know whether or not that will provide what I'm looking for before I write a bid for the purchasing department.

Can I get by determining that a number is from a virtual or a VoIP provider with just COC Type, SSC, and Block Category or do I need OCN and/or something else for that?

I've been a Telco for way too long and wanted out. It's a weird industry protected by licenses issued by local authorities and operated by mostly underskilled staffs . AI and SDN can easily replace most of day to day operation. How to get out ?

Hello everyone!

I have a SAN storage a Dell Storage SCv3020Dell and I'm not sure how will be conect, I don't have the switch for the fiber channel just the SAN and I see that I can use the protoco iSCSI by ethernet but I don't know if the server or servers should be conected by ethernet directly or I can conect the SAN to a normal switch with ethernet and can found the SAN by my LAN.

This is my first time configuration a SAN

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Sorry if this doesn't belong here, I have a question and couldn't think of another subreddit. If the mods tell me to, I'll take it down

So just now, I was helping my dad in his work, we have an older van and are distributing food, and the van doesn't have a good radio (that's what dad said) so we have a kind of device that connects via Bluetooth to a phone and teh phones acta as a better antenna for the van.

And just now we were waiting behind a garbage truck and my dad noticed something. As the back lights were flickering, the radio device was in sync with it making static. Every time the back light of the garbage truck light on, the noise got louder and when they turned off, the noise got quieter. And when the truck started backing up and the back of it was no longer facing us, only it's side, this stopped.

So I was wondering, does anyone here have an explanation for this?

I have been in field ops for over 20 years. Half of that time was customer service tech and have now been in the central office/network tech/special services for the last half of my career. My current position the staff has been cut to the bone and due to being on call all the time and dealing with a lot of legacy equipment I am burnt out and need a change. I had honestly rather be on the road 3 weeks at a time if it meant the 1 week I was home I am home and don't have to deal with work. I'm past the age of doing line work but do enjoy installing and turning up network equipment transport, switches, dslams, etc.

Most of the people you hear doing storm cleanup are linemen but it stands to reason a lot of remotes also need rebuilt and installed. Anyone doing that type of work contracting and if so how do you like it?

Hi All,

My boss has this crazy idea that he wants to change our phone system after the lease is up and change for mobile handsets.

I wonder if anyone can point me in the direction of a service whereby we can point our advertised phone number at a virtual switchboard that will then route to a particular mobile depending on the option pressed?

Hi, I’m looking for any carriers that support 3g in california, as I would like to put my old iPhone to use. It supports 4G data, but not calling so it doesn’t really work as a phone on most networks.

I am not getting upc code from jio. What is the problem can someone help me pls. I contacted jio but no response

Looking for connections on the East Coast. I'm in the mid-Atlantic.

Interested in trying to save 5ESS switch for educational / historical purposes. Minimum config, VCDX style with Sun emulation of the 3B2.

Any leads at Verizon or others? I believe they are replacing all of theirs.

Hi all. Very new to this sub (just joined) but hoping I can find some guidance.

I have been working as a tower climber/field technician for a little over 4 years. Started with Big 3 4/5g upgrades and installs, took a new position to do wireless backhaul field work and now currently am a field tech for a private p2p network doing any and everything for the radio, L&A and supporting equipment (remote management, hardware, AC/DC systems, etc).

I've learned a lot about the industry, but feel like I've just come up against a wall as far as advancement on-the-job goes lately. It's very easy to learn tower work on the fly, but I'm finding networking, more complex RF theory and the like very difficult without some true education. In short, the YouTube and tutorial rabbit holes aren't cutting it and I don't really have a mentor at the moment.

I've decided to look for some type of classes to get myself back ahead of the curve, whether that be college, professional training, or whatever. Does anyone have anything they recommend, given my hasty summary above? Go ahead and make whatever assumptions you need about my knowledge base, no wrong answers and never too much info. What I will say is that I enjoy field work, RF theory interests me more than networking (not really a "computer person" as funny as that must be here) and I struggle to study for a cert without some problem-solving course work to learn from and struggle my way through.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to help!

Is there any course help to understand e-topup system?

Anyone know a US SMS test number? Where you send a text, and it just sends one back?

I've tried googling, but nothing relevant seems to come up.

I've been thinking about how Verizon can attract more young customers, especially with so many options out there like T-Mobile and smaller carriers. It seems like Verizon's student/ deals are pretty limited like they only offer up to $25 off a month on unlimited plans for two lines.

What else could Verizon do to stay relevant and win over the younger crowd? AT&T has sponsorships and partnerships out the wazoo. What if Verizon built a ride in Universal, kind of like the Simpsons? Young adults need to get off their parents' phone plan at some point, and Verizon is too expensive for them so they end up switching to cheaper alternatives. Just some thoughts

Our apartment in Doncaster- VIC used to be a business and this is in one of the rooms- sans the cover.

It has a TELECOM logo but no other identifiers.

Just need a cover but we'll buy the whole thing just for the cover.

The lines are no longer used, the other option is to just get a tech out to remove it from the wall.

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The computer we are using to talk to our Nortel Meridian is likely getting ready to have HD failure. I thought it would be easy as using Putty to serial into the system. But this isn't working. We thought this would be the quickest & easiest solution.

Does anyone know of an active forum regarding these systems?

If someone here knows anything about it, this is where I'm at.

Note, the computer we are running still works, but we are wanting to swap it with a newer computer if possible. (we will be replacing the phone system in the next year, but not quite yet)

We are using a DB9 to what looks like a 9pin db25 connector. This is part of a 3-way connector that plugs directly into the Nortel Cabinet. All this is on the old computer.

On the new computer, the only cable I have is a USB to DB9 that connects directly to the DB9 above. So, we're basically adding another cable to the mix.

There is an empty AUX Serial port, but I haven't had luck with that either.

We have Baud 9600; Data 8; stop bits 1; parity none; and flow control none on the hyperterminal. On Putty I found those settings and mimicked them.

I have read this https://pbxbook.com/meridian/admin/o11ttys.html, but I'm not sure why I'm not conencting.

I did a prt adan on ld 22 and got

ADAN hist

• size 10000 user MTC SCH BUG OSN

ADAN TTY 0

• TTY_TYPE SDI
• CAB 00
• CARD 00
• PORT 0
• DES
• FLOW NO
• USER MTC SCH BUG OSN
• TTYLOG 0
• BANR YES

I know we log in on TTY 0.

I'm not sure how else to proceed. And now that I'm having these issues, I'm not certain I'd be able to connect in with a VM. Harddrive cloning may work, but I'm still attaching it to a 25 year old PC. I'm not even certain I can find new Harddrives that fit. It uses the precursor to Sata cables. (molex I think?)

Edit: Solved.

The USB to Serial cable I was using was either not up to snuff, had the wrong drivers, was damaged or any number of other reasons. I used a different cable that was brand new and I was able to get in.

So troubleshooting 101. Thanks for all the insight and resources everyone provided me!

As a note, we are moving away from this in the very near future to something that is (hopefully) modern.

Any estimates would help me a lot!