[13920] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone planning to peer with these guys ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Evans)
Fri Nov 21 07:48:20 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 04:40:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Evans <evansm@CERF.NET>
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@devel.nacs.net>
cc: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971120232212.06062@devel.nacs.net>
The 5ESS platform is certainly capable of providing ISDN, as it sees the
ISDN services (BRI and PRI) as dial-tone services -- digital dial-tone,
but dial-tone just the same. (POTS dial-tone is a given for a Class 5
office)
Regards
Mark
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Steve Sobol wrote:
> 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?)
>
> --
> Steve Sobol, Tech Support, New Age Consulting Service, Inc. 216 619-2000
> sjsobol @ nacs.net http://www.nacs.net/support (Under Construction)
> "The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard."
> - A friend of mine on #romance
>
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