[VoIP] New member now online

[Dennis D Hock]

Dimitri,

Welcome to the group again.  I dare say you are probably the youngest
switcher here.  Congrats on just having graduated from high school.  Where
do you plan on going to pursue your interest in obtaining a job in Telecom?

I am 54 years old and have worked in the "Enterprise" side of Telephony all
my carrer life.  Just completed 28 years at the same firm in the same area,
telecom.  I started as an Assistant Engineer in 1979 and have worked my way
up to Principal Engineer.  I work for a large Midwest Energy company DTE
Energy.  probably a dinosaur in what is becoming your world, smae place for
28 years with increasing responsibilities/  Must be womething wrong with
me.  ;-)

Our voice network is composed of some 42 switches, 6 of which are tandems,
some 22,000 stations spread mostly over SE Michigan.  Telecom is still a
very interesting job and a good choice in spite of the movement toward the
converged network.  The data folks sometimes think voice is very simple to
do but don't always knwo how.  I am all for the convergence its just that
after 28 years the politics starts to wear on you.

Learn to keep one foot in each house and you can make yourself valuable to
your employer.  CCisco is the big dog right now but I don't think they will
remain for very long.  They have too much to learn and are not very open
minded.  They don't want to hear about how and why things have been done
only their attempt to redefine some of the basic tenants.  Keep your ear to
the ground and an open mind and drink up everything you can about
everybodies equipment.  There just might be a better way to do something
and you may be the one to offer it to your employer.  Plus there is the
pride of working on such a large network and watching it grow.  Money is
nice but as the old saw goes it isn't everything!

Anyway, I am here at this time of the morning for three reasons, 1) I love
what I do, 2) It is the only time I can get anything done, 3) I am stupid.

Welcome aboard again and enjoy the group.  A wealth of knowledge exists
here.

Dennis Hock

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To: voip at ckts.info
From: Dimitri Ressetar <mitya89 at aim.com>
Sent by: voip-bounces at ckts.info
Date: 07/01/2007 12:45AM
Subject: [VoIP] New member now online

Hello everyone.

I've posted on here once before but I thought I should introduce myself
here. My name is Dimitri Ressetar, I live in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
and I found out about this network last year when searching around the
internet. I was experimenting with Asterisk at Home at the time and was
amazed by the network that you all put together. I've been interested in
telephones and how the telephone network works since I was a kid, and
finding so much cool information on the internet in the past few years
has been awesome...reading about the blue-boxing and such really shows
how interesting the telephone network is/was. I just graduated from high
school this past May, so I'm guessing I'm one of the youngest people on
the network. I don't have/had a job in the telecommunications industry
(at least not yet!), I'm just really interested on how it all works.
Even though I have no electromechanical switch of my own, I contacted
Greg last November and he connected me to the network with office code
347 (for my initials DGR). I was experimenting around with Asterisk and
the cnet throughout the school year, and more recently (March/April),
switched from using Asterisk at Home on a really old Cyrix 686 to using
Asterisk installed on my Ubuntu Pentium II server (built from old spare
parts).

My server originally was only powered on when I was using it, since it
was too buggy to keep going all the time. This caused some problems,
especially since calling back numbers from my exchange would just
connect to nowhere. (Sorry John Novack!) By the way, checking my CDR, I
found out that "ALDERDICE DOUG" <3663212> was able to get through a long
time ago and heard my French/English Out-of-Service intercept from
Quebec, Canada, an old recording I downloaded.

Now I think I have my server running well enough to keep it on 24x7. I
have ddclient polling my router to keep the dyndns accounts updated, and
the server and router are plugged into my battery backup so they survive
the power blips we have here during the summer. I also have some PSTN
connectivity working thru Asterisk in addition to cnet, but I'm still
experimenting with that. I'll have to contact Greg to get a username and
password to put listings into the phone book, but if you'd like to call
here are some numbers that work: 347-0001 has a short informational
announcement, and 347-1601 thru 1609 are my 'dial-a-disc' lines, which
play a few tunes imported from my music collection. My IP-Phone is
connected to 347-9454, and you're welcome to call it anytime before
midnight (eastern time). If I'm not there, it will go to Asterisk
voicemail. (Please also note that I don't have all the standard cnet
test numbers (time of day, etc.) working yet...hopefully I will code
them in soon.)

I'll be away for the next few days, then back home for a few days, then
gone for a week, but I'll keep the server running while I'm gone to see
how it works connecting remotely. I'll still be checking my e-mail, so
let me know either on the list or off if you notice any more problems
with my server and stuff (I think the caller ID issue is fixed, though
I'll still have to check that again sometime). My e-mail address is
dimitri at ressetar dot com, but I use my aim account mitya89 at aim.com
for the list to avoid getting spam.

Dimitri Ressetar
cnet 347-9454
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