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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