Retronetworking

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h1. ISDN (and POTS) at CCC Camp 2023

@jolly and @laforge are planning to operate an experimental ISDN and analog telephony network at the "CCC Camp 2023":https://events.ccc.de/camp/2023

The subscriber lines will be terminated using de-commissioned [[V5_Access_Multiplexers]] that were donated by telecom operators together with the "osmo-v5":https://gitea.osmocom.org/retronetworking/osmo-v5 protocol stack and "osmo-cc":https://gitea.osmocom.org/cc

This network will be provided for people to re-enact the good old telephony days, using anything as old as rotary dial phones, up to the 1990s ISDN experience.

So if you still have your old wired telephones or ISDN equipment in a basement, feel free to bring it along and hook it up.

h2. How to connect to the network?

h3. Types of interfaces

We can offer

* analog POTS ports, expsed as classic 2-wire "ab" interface according to German standards.

* ISDN ports using Uk0 interface, using 4B3T according to German standards. The signalling is EDSS1 (Euro-ISDN). The configuration is PTMP (German: Mehrgeraeteanschluss), which was the default for most private ISDN lines in Germany.

h3. What Equipment do I need to bring

For analog lines, you can connect any analog phone, answering machine, fax, modem, etc. Even rotary phones from Sweden and New Zealand (with their special pulse sequences) will work.

For ISDN lines, you should bring your NTBA/NT1 (to convert Uk0 to S0) and then any ISDN equipment like phones, ISDN adapters, PBXs, ...

If you only have ISDN equipment for S0-bus but no NTBA, we have a few NTBA around that we can lend you, as needed, on a firs-come-first-serve basis.

In addition, it is wise to bring sufficient length of telephony wires so you can connect to the closest "Point of Presence".

h3. Where can I connect to the network

You would need to run some telephony wire (or CAT5, if that's all you have) to one of our "points of presence", where we will put [[V5_Access_Multiplexers]].

We are planning to deploy those at *only a few* (2-3) "Datenklo" around the camp site.  One of them will be in the vicinity of the PoC tent, the other locations are yet to be determined.

h2. What kind of services do you offer?

Our experimental analog + ISDN network will be interconnected with the "PoC/eventphone":https://eventphone.de/ so you should be able to connect not only with other users of the analog/ISDN network, but also the PoC DECT subsribers, as well as the c3gsm GSM subscribers.

There _might_ also be connectivity with the [[octoi:|OCTOI]] network, but we are uncertain if we can achieve that.

h2. How to contact you

You can reach us on the @#retronetworking@ IRC channel on https://libera.chat/

On-site contact details on how to reach us will be provided ahead of the camp.