[HN Gopher] The 5ESS Telephone Switch
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       The 5ESS Telephone Switch
        
       Author : Aloha
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2022-03-26 17:06 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | icedchai wrote:
       | Neat stuff. I enjoyed the description of ISDN as the future of
       | telecommunications. Around here, it was almost impossible to get
       | ISDN. I didn't know a single household who had it, though I
       | worked for an ISP that had 2 ISDN business subscribers in the
       | late 90's. I remember driving out to connect one of them up with
       | an Ascend Pipeline router.
        
         | jdkee wrote:
         | I got a 128kbs ISDN line to my apartment in Chicago in 1994
         | from Ameritech. Was blazingly fast compared to ye old dialup
         | 33.6 modem. It was quite an exciting time as the Internet was
         | taking off.
        
           | icedchai wrote:
           | Neat! I actually knew one guy in college that had ISDN at his
           | apartment, now that I think of it. This was in NYNEX
           | territory. He ran it as 2x 56k digital voice channels to
           | avoid data charges, from what I was told.
        
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