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Re: Anyone planning to peer with these guys ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Thu Nov 20 23:26:11 1997

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 23:22:12 -0500
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@devel.nacs.net>
To: Mark Evans <evansm@CERF.NET>
Cc: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971120191221.25903A-100000@nic.cerf.net>; from Mark Evans on Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 07:20:47PM -0800

On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 07:20:47PM -0800, Mark Evans wrote:
> 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.

Hrm, I have seen it mentioned many times in reference to ISDN lines...?

(or am I thinking of something else?)

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