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The Life and Death of The Analog Telephone

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The analog telephone network has been around for almost 140 years. It has played a major role in communications, both voice and data, as the following infographic by small business telecom research firm Software Advice shows

As of 2020, it is projected that US carriers will no longer have to maintain analog phone networks. In some states, as early as Jan 1, 2017, this legislation will take effect. As of 2030, the last remaining analog telephone line service is planned to be cancelled.

For your business, this means:

You May Need A New Small Business Phone System

Analog POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) lines, PRI (Primary Rate Interface), T1, ISDN are all analog connections. These will need to be replaced by a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connection, which is a protocol that allows for your phones or phone system to route voice over the Internet, VoIP.

If your phone system does not support SIP, you will need a new system. Hosted PBX, hosted voice or cloud PBX, which are some of the names it’s commonly called, is where the phone system is hosted in the cloud or data center and the end-user phones connect over the Internet to the remote phone system. There is very little, if any, hardware in the office.

Faxing Will Convert to IP or Die

Today, faxing relies heavily on the analog network. Fax over Internet (FoIP) is where the analog connection is converted to digital, IP, and routed over the Internet. It has proven to be very unreliable in most cases, except where there are no network latency issues or packet loss.

The long term solution is to eliminate the fax machine altogether, if possible, by using a scanner, email, drop-box or other digital document transmission.

Credit Card Processing, Emergency Phones and Alarm Lines Will Change

Since credit card transactions, alarm lines and emergency phones, such as elevator phones, are all dependant on analog connections, they will need to convert to an IP connection. Credit card machines will need to be replaced with ones that communicate over the Internet.

 

 

Source: The Life and Death of The Analog Telephone

Data , F.Y.I. , Smart Home Tech , Video , Voice

The FOA Reference For Fiber Optics – OLANs- Fiber Optic LANs

Optical LANs have been around since the mid-1980s but in the last few years they have benefited from the worldwide move to install fiber to the home. With over 100 million FTTH subscribers, FTTH has become a market driven by the economies of scale and costs have plummeted. It did not take long for designers to understand that FTTH, especially as used in multi-dwelling units, was similar to typical LANs. Much as LANs based on telco PBX architectures became the first standard for LANs, telco FTTH architectures, especially PONs (passive optical networks), are being adopted for the next generation of LANs. Here you will find some history and an explanation of how this new generation of telco architecture is being widely adopted.

Source: The FOA Reference For Fiber Optics – OLANs- Fiber Optic LANs

F.Y.I. , Smart Home Tech

Jellyfish Inspired Lodges To Help Clean The Environment – Secret Energy

Robot ‘jellyfish’ with ‘tentacles’ that catch trash and clean polluted water

 

The Jellyfish Lodge is a concept conceived by architect Janine Hung for Inhabitat’s Biodesign Competition. They boast kitchen and bathroom-equipped living quarters and even vegetable gardens in their base. They have long ‘tentacles’ leading into the surrounding river which traps and collects rubbish and also filters polluted water.

 

 

When it comes to design, mother nature has a lot to teach us. The field of Biodesign has emerged as an exciting new discipline which integrates the best ideas from nature with the cutting edge of modern technology, fostering technological breakthroughs that could allow us to live better lives, more in harmony with our environment. The Jellyfish Lodge proposes to

Source: Jellyfish Inspired Lodges To Purify Environment | Secret Energy

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Health Risk: 5G Ultra-High Frequency Radiation Is Coming

The 5G revolution is rushing toward us and it will bring a whole new era of harm from ultra-high microwave frequency radiation. And those who raise their voices against the danger to our health and our human rights to safety have been the subject of harassment, intimidation and attempts to silence them. ‘Stay out of the way of technological development.’

Source: Health Risk: 5G Ultra-High Frequency Radiation Is Coming

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The internet is controlled by secret keys – Business Insider

A highly scripted ritualThe physical keys unlock safe deposit boxes. Inside those boxes are smart key cards. It takes multiple keys to gain access to the device that generates the internet’s master key.That master key is really some computer code known as a root key-signing key. It is a password of sorts that can access the master ICANN database. This key generates more keys that trickle down to protect various bits and pieces of the internet, in various places, used by different internet security organizations.The security surrounding the ceremonies before and after is intense. It involves participants passing through a series of locked doors using key codes and hand scanners until they enter a room so secure that no electronic communications can escape it. Inside the room, the crypto officers assemble along with other ICANN officials and typically some guests and observers.The whole event is heavily scripted, meticulously recorded, and audited. The exact steps of the ceremony are mapped out in advance and distributed to the participants so that if any deviation occurs the whole room will know.The group conducts the ceremony, as scripted, then each person files out of the room one by one. They’ve been known to go to a local restaurant and celebrate after that.But as secure as all of this is, the internet is an open piece of technology not owned by any single entity. The internet was invented in the US, but the US relinquished its decades of stewardship of DNS earlier this month. ICANN is officially in charge.Keenly aware of its international role and the worldwide trust placed on it, ICANN lets anyone monitor this ceremony, providing a live stream over the internet. It also publishes the scripts for each ceremony.On October 27, ICANN will hold another ceremony — and this one will be historic, too. For the first time, it will change out the master key itself. Technically speaking, it will change the “key pair” upon which all DNS security is built, known as the Root Zone Signing Key.”If you had this key and were able to, for example, generate your own version of the root zone, you would be in the position to redirect a tremendous amount of traffic,” Matt Larson, vice president of research at ICANN, recently told Motherboard’s Joseph Cox.Here’s an in-depth description of the ceremony by CloudFlare’s Olafur Guomundsson.Here’s a video of the very first key ceremony, conducted in 2010. Skip to 1:58 to see it.

Source: The internet is controlled by secret keys – Business Insider

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Wireless technology: The dark side of convenience

Wireless causes DNA breaks and cellular leakageAndrew Goldsworthy, a retired Imperial College (UK) cell biologist with no industry affiliations who has studied this area extensively, attributes most of the health effects EHS sufferers report to a single cause: at certain frequencies, weak wireless signals – far below safety standards – which pull structurally important calcium ions off of our body’s cell membranes, weakening and causing them to leak.Having its meticulously balanced systems destabilized, even slightly, by wireless triggered leakage wreaks biological chaos – subverting the integrity of the body’s intricate defense mechanisms and leaving it vulnerable to all manner of damage. Goldsworthy theorizes how many EHS symptoms can thus be explained: leaking skin cells cause rashes, tingling, numbness, burning sensations; leaking heart cells trigger potentially life-threatening arrhythmias; in the inner ear, leaking cochlear cells trigger tinnitus and leaking vestibular cells cause dizziness and other symptoms of motion sickness, including nausea.The biological effects our safety standards ignore reads like a guest list to Dante’s inferno: DNA damage, genetic changes, breakdown in intra-cell communication, protein damage, immunological function changes, reproductive system damage, decreased sperm counts, cell damage and death, brain-blood barrier leakage, brain nerve cell damage, free radical increases, melatonin decreases, possible linkage to auto-immune diseases like MS, embryonic cell damage, fetal defects, heritable birth defects, and literally hundreds of potential illnesses related to leakage in cell membranes throughout the body.While industry continues to deny, deflect, and off-balance studies finding harm, much independent science clearly points to wireless radiation as being antagonistic to the basic cellular roots of life.This is serious stuff. While there are still many unknowns, it is clear that we’re only beginning to understand the complex health risks of the dangerous frequencies the wireless industry has unleashed on unsuspecting citizens.

Source: Wireless technology: The dark side of convenience