Ethan, Even the VCDX variant has some pretty intense power and cooling requirements If it's headed to InfoAge, that needs to cleared with Management / Wall Township, and space dedicated for the switch and support hardware Martin On 10/30/2024 12:28 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Not to change the subject, but I've heard that Verizon is retiring all of their 5ESS hardware.
Anyone have any contacts at Verizon regarding surplus equipment / scrap?
I think it would be cool to try to build a running 5ESS VCDX system with a minimum amount of POTS circuits (64?) and trunks and all that. Compact -48v DC power supplies, Sun 1u for the emulator thing... A home sized build that can be connected to shadytel or one of the online hobbyist phone networks.
Also, I don't really know that much about them. I've been reading some of the manuals that Nokia (who bought Alcatel who bought Lucent who was AT&T or whatever) has online. The facebook Class 5 group -- someone said the switch mdoule itself will take nearly a full rack, so that is interesting. Wikipedia said 3 racks. The place I worked that I think had one, it was 11 or 12racks but I never saw inside them -- no one seemed to know anything about it.
Any leads appreciated.
- Ethan