On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:28 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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.
Yeah, you can get reasonably compact. When I worked in a telco lab we had a Nortel DMS-100 (a European competitor to the 5ESS), and it fit in a half rack. Any reason to think you need something as complicated as a 5ESS? There are plenty of older PBX solutions out there which would probably get the job done for such a small number of analog lines. Devin