PBXes at home

[Ethan O'Toole]

> 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