[13908] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone planning to peer with these guys ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Evans)
Thu Nov 20 22:23:09 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:20:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Evans <evansm@CERF.NET>
To: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120214454.19788A-100000@ns3.harborcom.net>
FWIW, In my years in telephony, past and present, I've always known the
5ESS (5E) as a Class Five (end-office) Central Office switch. The
trailing numeric is usually indicative of the 'generic', or software rev.
that the switch is operating on.
Exclusively voice, too ... although I haven't kept up on the more recent
developments that come with the 5ESS-2000 platform/chassis.
Regards,
Mark
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Bradley Dunn wrote:
> > Technical Details: GTMI has established a national backbone which
> > operates as a fully-meshed network operating at DS-3 speeds, and
> > interconnecting, or "peering" with several other networks at undisclosed
> > private peering points. Multiple Lucent 5E12 switches, capable of
> > processing data using multiple protocols including Internet (IP)
> > Protocol, will route the traffic through the network. Dr. Robert
> > Elliot, Chief Technology Officer, was quoted as saying, "We are excited
> > about employing the Lucent 5E12 switches in the new network
> > architecture. It just proves that IP telephony is becoming a reality."
>
> Could someone more clued in on Lucent switches comment on this? I went to
> Lucent's web site and did a search for 5E12 and it returned nothing. I
> found some stuff on 5E11, which apparently is a new software release for
> the 5ESS-2000 switch.
>
> Bradley
>
>
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