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?)
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