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The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
what make me laugh about this thread of rudy's is that my father was working on these units back in the 80's. it is fairly old technology that was originally built by western electric.
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...yes....but....um....
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The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
Originally Posted by kb2crk
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Correct, and that is what makes it all the more exciting.
The 5 ESS unit is pretty much legacy, but also very much current.
Density of the cards has increased, one card slot might have served 4 subscribers but now can support 24 and who knows what number with the latest cards.
The common control computers have had several changes since this series of switch first came out.
The original administrative computer would have been an IBM 360/370 monster.
Now a laptop can run the show.
Legacy telecom is all but dead, the only people who don't know it yet are the 500 people who still have traditional analog service at their homes. The only reason ten digit phone numbers even exist anymore is because we're like trained monkeys when it comes to dialing a telephone and modest change would just be 'too hard' to learn. But let's make sure stupid gets in the way of progress; though that's another rant for another day. Most CLECs and LECs are selling "PRI service", though the entire thing is over an engineered data circuit. The translation is done by some CPE (Adtran/Cisco/take your pick). God knows it'd just be easier to deliver a SIP trunk (which many do), but there are still wars over compatibility.
If your point that the telecommunications system is more vulnerable than the day before, sure. The amount of fraud I see on a daily basis is mind blowing, but it's planned for, expected, and dealt with. Non-story from the hacker that never was.
And FWIW, I've been in the phone business on some level for the last 15 years, and I've never once heard it referred to as an E5.
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I am on legacy land line as well as DSL.
The key advantage to legacy is that it will work even with widespread power failure.
Cellular companies plan on 30 minutes of power loss, after that they plug into an external generator, and they have a very small number of them.
VoIP is wonderful, until you consider the fact that the cable company has very limited battery backup as well.
Your home box is not provided with battery backup as a rule, you run out and buy that yourself.
Even DSL, limited battery backup is provided to the DSL unit out in the neighborhoods.
I simply do not figure on my cellphone working in an emergency, it is landline and radio for me.
Edit:
Even the telecom industry calls it a 5E.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lucent...SBC-a095579271
Simply put, after a while people tend to truncate things.
A classic example is the Truck, Light, General Purpose, everyone calls it a Jeep. ;)
Last edited by KA5PIU; 09-05-2010 at 09:56 PM. Reason: 5E reference.
Yes, 5E, not E5.
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The Phreaker community has a passion for changing things around.
A Phone is a Fone.
A 500 set is a 005 set.
2600, the old LD idle tone, was an audible call.
Leet speak before computers were common if you will.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
http://www.2600.com/
Most old Phreaks want to see legacy telephone continue.
Remember, from a reliability standpoint, the old Western Electric and Automatic Electric/GTE equipment simply can not be beat.
The uptime for landlines is on the order of 99.999%
Telephone technology is all about reliability, that is why the Unix platform can be configured for 2 concurrent systems and watchdog timers, something that Bell Labs put a lot of thought into.
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