Intelligent Network Forum

http://www.inf.org/

Committee T1 (creates telecom standards in the U.S.)

http://www.t1.org/

ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)

http://www.etsi.org/

ITU (International Telecommunication Union)

http://www.itu.int/

United States FCC (Federal Communications Commission) consumer information

http://www.fcc.gov/cib/

Bell Labs Innovations (see Technology section)

http://www.bell-labs.com/

Telecordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore)

http://www.telecordia.com/

IEC (International Engineering Consortium)

http://www.iec.org/

Web ProForum Tutorial: "Fundamentals of Telecommunications"

http://www.iec.org/tutorials/fund_telecom/

Web ProForum Tutorial: "Signaling System 7 (SS7)"

http://www.iec.org/tutorials/ss7/

Web ProForum Tutorial: "Intelligent Network (IN)"

http://www.iec.org/tutorials/in/

Paradyne's DSL Sourcebook (provides good overview of telecom technologies)

http://www.paradyne.com/sourcebook_offer/sb_pdf.html

David Isenberg and his paper "Rise of the Stupid Network"

http://www.isen.com/

A Comparative Study of Dynamic Routing in Circuit-Switched Networks by Greg Trangmoe

http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~trangmoe/dyroute/dyroute.html

"Netheads versus Bellheads" by T. M. Denton Consultants (With François Ménard and David Isenberg)

http://www.tmdenton.com/netheads.htm

"Technology in the Local Network," a GTE Laboratories paper

http://bob.nap.edu/html/wpni3/ch-53.html

Yahoo! Telecommunications page

http://dir.yahoo.com/science/engineering/electrical_engineering/telecommunications/

ePanorama - Telephone technology page (good technology overview)

http://www.us-epanorama.net/telephone.html

Telecommunications Magazine

http://www.telecoms-mag.com/

Telephony World.com

http://www.telephonyworld.com/

CLEC.com

http://www.clec.com/