ISDN Software

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ISDN Shareware / Free Software

MS-DOS/MS-Windows
- Caller ID for Windows CAPI 1.1
- Shareware by Herbert Hanewinkel <heha@nmrvex.biochem.mpg.de>
  - winisdn.README, wini1_11.zip, wini2_11.zip: wrappers to let you run WinISDN software on CAPI 1.x and 2.0 systems
  - wispa.README, wispa11.zip: a Windows Packet Driver for Internet access via ISDN. WISPA emulates a Packet Driver under Microsft Windows for ISDN access over a CAPI 1.1 DLL interface. WISPA combines and extends the capabilities of ISPA and ISDNMON to provide simple and easy to use access to the Internet via ISDN.
  - cindi.README, cindi.zip: A NDIS driver for CAPI 2.0
  - cipa.README, cipa.zip: A Packet driver for CAPI 2.0
  - isi14.README, isi14.exe: A BIOS INT 14 Emulator for CAPI 2.0
  - ispa.README a CAPI 1.1 Packet-Driver for TCP/IP over ISDN (see also iX article below)
  - isdi.README an CAPI 1.1 NDIS driver
  - WIN 95 / ISDN - Konfiguration -- how-to tips for the above software (German)
- PAPI, an MS-DOS CAPI Packet-Driver for TCP/IP over ISDN
  by Dietmar Friede <friede@ibm.net>, 1993; (NEW ADR) no support.
- CFOS, an MS-DOS CAPI FOSSIL Driver; adds ISDN capability to many BBS's (alternate ftp site)
  by Christoph Lueders <chris@rhein.de> and Martin Winkler <winkler@zaphod.rhein.de> (or <martin_winkler@zaphod.fido.de>)
  Martin writes:
  'cFos' is a DOS FOSSIL driver / BIOS INT 14h Emulator for ISDN. It was written to run FIDO compatible software and other programs using INT 14h to access conventional modems. Its built in AT command set emulator translates AT modem commands to CAPI calls thereby providing easy access to ISDN boards which come with a CAPI driver. If you have an ISDN board with a CAPI driver, all you need to do is: load the CAPI driver, load 'cFos' and you are ready to run your existing application software.
- The KA9Q Gopher Server[was gopher.ubp.ohio-state.edu, now info.ubp.ohio-state.edu]
  - 950531.02: InterNet Access Router (INAR) IP router. Uses packet drivers. Includes ISPA 1.8.6. for use with CAPI ISDN cards. Free. Download from its ftp archive site.
  - Ka9Q Executable & Utilities
  - KA9Q Documentation
  - Search KA9Q Documentation
- How to use KA9Q and ISPA together to route TCP/IP via EuroISDN (German, from iX magazine, great!)
- IAIK ISDN DIAL UP
  A free packet driver that runs on any CAPI-compliant ISDN board. Not sure what it interoperates with; doc is a bit sketchy. From Technical University of Graz, Austria.
OS/2
- CapiTel - ISDN CAPI 1.1 based Answering Machine for OS/2, by Werner Fehn and Carsten Wimmer <cawim@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de;
- Henning Heedfelds ISDN Page (Great!)
  Includes:
  - TCP/IP over ISDN
  - CAPI-Drivers
  - Fossil-Drivers
  - ISDN-capable Terminal Software
  - Software for displaying and logging the caller-id
  - PABX-Software
- OS/2 und ISDN (Great- latest versions of Capicom and CFOS available here, among other things. German.)
- TCP/IP über ISDN (German summary of TCP/IP over ISDN for OS/2)
- ftp.pop.de's os2 area
  - CAPICOM 0.94
  - CFOS/2 0256 Beta
- Uni Freiburg isdn directory
  - isdnpm203.txt, isdnpm203.zip Shareware TCP/IP driver for CAPI 1.1
Unix
- PCMCIA Driver for FreeBSD, works with BUG Linkboy D64K PCMCIA ISDN card
- II (ISDN/IP/etc) driver for FreeBSD by Dietmar Friede and Juergen Kraus
  Version pre-Beta 0.2 supports EuroISDN and several models of ISDN card.
- Early alpha port of above for NetBSD/i386 (and a README) from Arne Helme! (Only supports Teles cards and EuroISDN at present.)
- ISDN for Linux - Harald Milz's list of Linux ISDN solutions good!
- More ISDN for Linux - Mike Mueller's ISDN page for Linux (German)
- Details on message-passing interface between PC bus and ISTEC ISDN card (German, probably of interest to Linux hackers)
- Matthias Urlichs /dev/isdn for Linux; German doc; only supports German ISDN at present
- isdndrv-0.1.1 a Linux Character device driver for Diehl SCOM-Card by Henrik Hempelmann, marsu@palumbia.in-berlin.de
- A Linux device driver for the Teles ISDN card, by Jan den Ouden
- isdn4linux A Linux device driver for the ICN and Teles ISDN cards, According to Jan den Ouden, it has been part of the Linux kernel source since version 1.3.69. Read all about it in its German FAQ
- IP over X.25 over ISDN for Sun Workstations

Commercial ISDN Software

ISDN Cost Monitoring Software
- Kansmen Corporation's ISDN Accountant - Win32 program which monitors routers via SNMP and itemizes ISDN charges
Windows95
- Microsoft ISDN Accelerator Pack Long-awaited native Win95 ISDN support!
- Bruce Robertson's Bitsurfr Win95 setup guide
- Christoph´s Win95 ISDN Dial up Configuration Page (Describes Win95's installation procedure for ISDN cards. Step-by-step. German.)
- Link Technology (Source code for VxD TAPI+WAN NDIS driver; of interest to card vendors) NEW ADR
- Microkey Communication Systems -- SwitchBoard7 (CTI; web+phone+fax; available 2Q96)
MS-DOS/MS-Windows
- ACOTEC, The ISDN Company
  - ISDN for Workgroups
  - ISDN Remote Access Service (RAS) for Windows NT (Router; supports RAS, PPP, CAPI 2.0)
  - ISDN-MPR for Windows NT (MultiProtocol Router; supports RAS, PPP, CAPI 2.0)
- AVM
  - Netware MultiProtocol Router for ISDN
  - NetWare Connect for ISDN
  - AVM NetWAYS/ISDN
  - AVM IDtrans (File transfer; requires CAPI 2.0)
- Digital Equipment Corporation
  - PATHWORKS V6.0 for DOS and Windows (supports CAPI 2.0)
- FTP Software Inc.
  - OnNet for Windows 2.0 (TCP/IP stack & apps; supports WinISDN; "Will soon" support VxD CAPI 2.0!)
- KLAS Drive 128 - ISDN CAPI Software
- Maxpro Systems
  - Maxpro 4.0: Multiprotocol Router -- Both client & server. Can run on any BRI *or PRI* card that has CAPI 1.1 or 2.0. Routes IP,IPX,Appletalk. PPP-ML, PPP Compression
- Microsoft
- NetManage Chameleon MS-Windows ISDN TCP/IP software (Supports WinISDN)
- Commercial Link Systems - BANSAI TCP/IP ISDN router (Germany, ca. 400DM, requires CAPI 1.1)
- Combinet Connection Manager
- Intel's RemoteExpress [Review, 7/94, PCWeek]
- The pcnfs faq and its Section G - Product Features Comparisons (lists ISDN, but nobody supporting it!)
Windows-NT
- ACOTEC, The ISDN Company
  - ISDN for Windows NT (No english yet)
- ITK
  - Virtual CAPI -- share ISDN cards installed in a Netware or Windows NT server with Windows-95, DOS, and OS/2 clients using the standard CAPI API! NEW
- Microsoft's Bundled ISDN support for NT
- see also "Search Microsoft..." below. ISC's PRI card, too.
- SCii Telecom
  - SCii Translan
  - SCii Transfile
Macintosh
- See Also: Marc Riegers Mac ISDN-Infos (German) (Intro to ISDN cards and software for German Mac users)
- Euronis PPP for TCP/IP and/or Appletalk
- Farallon's Timbuktu/Remote
- 4-Sight
  - ISDN Connection Manager - file replication software (single-user)
  - ISDN Broadcast Manager - file replication software (networked; share isdn board over LAN. Hmm.)
Unix
- Wide Area Networking Support V2.0 for Digital UNIX Systems
- IBM AIX DirectTalk/6000 (Telephony Control & Monitoring, supports PRI PBX's)
- netCS
  - netISDN Drivers for Diehl ISDN boards
  - netGW TCP/IP Routing software for netISDN
- CDA
  - UniLinx - SCO tty driver for U.S. Robotics' Sportster 128 internal TA
- SCii Telecom
  - SCii Translan
- PP-COM Telecommunication + Networking GmbH
  - MRS: Message Routing System (Integrated fax/e-mail/voice mail/bbs server. Integrates with PBX. EuroISDN. Win3.1, Win95, WinNT, POTS clients.)
- Siemans-Nixdorf
  - CS-Route V1.0: Network access and routing for X.25 and ISDN networks
- Sietec Systemtechnik
  - LAN-ISDN-Router (ISDNCL 91865) (IP-over-ISDN software + ISA card for SCO, SINIX. EuroISDN. German.)
- Spider Systems (Now part of Shiva)
  - Spider Software ISDN (For OEM's & embedded systems?)
- Sun Microsystems
  - Sunlink-ISDN -- for TCP/IP
  - SunXTL -- for voice
- SGI Indy ISDN Features
- Ubiquity Software Limited
  - Helmsman (Computer-Telephony Integration / networking app)
VMS
- DEC VAX ISDN Software V1.1
Novell Netware Fileserver OS
- Eicon
  - ISDN Services for NWConnect 2.0 Beta
- ITK
  - Virtual CAPI -- share ISDN cards installed in a Netware or Windows NT server with Windows-95, DOS, and OS/2 clients using the standard CAPI API! NEW
- Novell
  - Information Access and Management Solutions
  - NetWare MultiProtocol Router 3.0
  - Novell Labs WAN Driver Specifications (driver interface APIs for ISDN and also NetWare CAPI Manager)
- Netware MultiProtocol Router for ISDN (from co-developer AVM)
- U.S. Robotics
  - Integrated Server Solutions for Novell Fileservers (BRI or PRI hardware + software)
Embedded Systems / Realtime Operating Systems / PBX Internal Software
- Avalon Microsystems
- CELLWARE's CELL-Q.2931 short info. (B-ISDN protocol firmware)
- intec Gesellschaft für Informationstechnik mbH
  - EuroISDN Firmware for 80x86 and 8032/52 (Development hardware system also available)
- Link Technology NEW ADR
- Telenetworks
- TeleSoft International ISDN HW and SW For OEMs new URL
- XtcN
- See also CICAT's completely awesome ISDN Product Developer's Guide

The ISDN API battlefield

CAPI - the Common API for ISDN - de facto German standard
- The CAPI Association's Home Page -- here is where you can get their most recent specifications
- Old copies of CAPI documents:
  - version 2.0 (English; zipped MS-Word; 700KB) CAPI 2.0 supports more operating systems and countries than does 1.1.
  - version 1.1 (English, plain ASCII), script to add form feeds,
- AVM's COMMON-ISDN-API (CAPI) info page - also covers their CAPI application development kit, which you can now download for free! This version of the development kit supports VxD's (or so I'm told).
- Stollmann's CAPI Development Kit
- CAPI Assoc. FTP Site (hosted by ACOTEC)
  (Really, it's CAPI e.V., but e.V. kinda means Association.)
- IAIK ISDN ACIVITIES --
- CAPI Working Group directory -- replaced by CAPI Assoc. site
- Visual ISDN is a .VBX for accessing ISDN from a Visual Basic program. Works with boards that have CAPI drivers. Probably only works in Germany :-(, but I haven't checked yet. The company is ESP Gesellschaft fuer EDV-Systemintegration mbH, and they can be reached at
```
ESP GmbH
Dagflinger Strasse 53
81929 Muenchen
Germany
Tel: +49-89-99 35 52 0
Fax: +49-89-99 35 52 15
```
- ITK's Virtual CAPI -- share ISDN cards installed in a Netware or Windows NT server with Windows-95, DOS, and OS/2 clients using the standard CAPI API! NEW
WinISDN - simple, US-only?, MS-Windows-only API.
(Not much more complicated than an ethernet driver, according to one developer.)
- current version (Microsoft Word)
- ftp directory
Microsoft TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface)
- Microsoft's TAPI Developer's FTP Archive
- TAPI 1.0 SDK (1994. Check recent MSDN's for version 1.1.)
- Feb 1995 TAPI Bakeoff
- Intel's page on TAPI (Cool!)
- On blending TAPI into Winsock 2.0
- Winsock 2 Spec Press Release--May 29, 1995 (also mentions exposing the connections between TAPI and Winsock 2)
- Microsoft Announcement re Win95 Support For ISDN -- the 1000-pound gorilla speaks! More details as they become available.
  - Modem Driver Development for Win96/Nashville
  - ISDN Driver Development for Win95 (see modem info, too)
- Intel's PII - multiprotocol plug-ins for Winsock (including raw ISDN access)
- Novell's TSAPI (for NetWare environments only)
- More info on Novell's TSAPI
- IBM's CallPath (see also here - crossplatform API + back end
- FRAPI-A, a Japanese Standard API. No info available.
- TAPI An experimental European standard API for accessing ATM networks (Unfortunately named!)
- NIST's ASI - defunct American standard - used by SGI
  - NIST ASI docs
- ETSI's PCI aka Appli-Com - yet another complex ISDN API - no known implementations; now dumped in favor of CAPI
- MMTECH's Videophone API Knows about things like PAL and NTSC (wierd!), H.320, H.221, H.230, H.242, H.261, G.711, G.722, G.728, and possibly other building-block standards. (Hey, what about MPEG?)

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Commercial ISDN Software

The ISDN API battlefield

Author: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>