20 Sep
2019
20 Sep
'19
11:19 a.m.
5ESS? Hmmm, you must have a pretty BIG home, no?
Not really, and most of the space is filled with arcade and pinball
machines :-) But it is my understanding that a 5ESS could be widdled down
to two racks. And it's not like I would keep it forever. Apparently the
management platform that used to be a 3B2 runs on a Solaris machine in
emulation now. So something like a Sun Netra T1 can take the place of the
large computer. Only need enough line circuits to run say 32 or 64 analog
loops and maybe some ISDN/T1?
I've had a tour of a 5ESS and it was QUITE big,
like 50K square feet at
least, not counting the battery room and the cross connect frames, or the
Solar turbine generator.
True, but don't need rows of racks of modules that drive the subscriber
loops.
Jon
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: Ethan O'Toole