The following represents some of the references, services, and tools available to help build hardware that is optimized to work with Windows operating systems.
ANSI, EIA, TIA, and other standards
Global Engineering Documents
Phone: (800) 854-7179 (US)
(613) 237-4250 (Canada)
(303) 792-2181 (Outside North America)
Fax: (303) 397-2740
ftp://ftp.symbios.com/pub/standards/io/
Bellcore Technical References
Bellcore (Bell Communications Research)
Phone: (800) 521-2673 (North America)
(908) 699-5800 (Outside North America)
http://www.bellcore.com
Communications Device Class Power Management Reference Specification, Version 1.0
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/onnow.htm
Device Bay Interface Specification, Version 1.0
http://www.device-bay.org
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) or Global System for Mobile (GSM) standards
Phone: +33-92 94 42 00
FAX: +33-93 65 47 16
E-mail: secretariat@etsi.fr
ITU communications standards
ITU Sales
Phone: (41) (22) 730-6141
Fax: (41) (22) 730-5194
E-mail: sales@itu.ch
http://www.itu.ch
PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.1 (PCI 2.1)
http://www.pcisig.com
Plug and Play specifications
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/specs/
Telephony API (TAPI) overview and white papers
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/communications/
http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/netwrk/tapiwp.htm
Unimodem Diagnostics Command Reference Specification
Unimodem ID Command Reference Specification
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/specs/
USB specifications
http://www.usb.org
WDM device driver support white papers
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pcfuture/
Windows MDK
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/modem/modemdev.exe
Windows and Windows NT DDK, including information about NDIS and Win32 SDK
MSDN Professional membership