• A class-4, or tandem, telephone switch is a U.S. telephone company central office telephone exchange used to interconnect local exchange carrier offices...
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  • A Class-5 telephone switch is a telephone exchange in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) that directly serves subscribers and manages subscriber...
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    A telephone exchange, telephone switch, or central office is a central component of a telecommunications system in the public switched telephone network...
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    The 5ESS Switching System is a Class 5 telephone electronic switching system developed by Western Electric for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company...
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  • Class 4 2-6-0, British steam locomotive BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T, British steam locomotive Class 4 telephone switch Class 4, contribution class in the...
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  • Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22. (in support of MIL-STD-188). Class-4 telephone switch v t e...
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  • This list of telephone switches is a compilation of telephone switches used in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or in large enterprises. Centura...
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  • The No. 4 Electronic Switching System (4ESS) is a class 4 telephone electronic switching system that was the first digital electronic toll switch introduced...
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  • Softswitch (redirect from Soft-Switch)
    (software switch) is a call-switching node in a telecommunications network, based not on the specialized switching hardware of the traditional telephone exchange...
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  • The GTD-5 EAX (General Telephone Digital Number 5 Electronic Automatic Exchange) is the Class 5 telephone switch developed by GTE Automatic Electric Laboratories...
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  • as a Class 5 telephone switch in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) until the early 1990s, when it was replaced with electronic switching systems...
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  • Destination routing (category Telephone exchanges)
    telephone number. In the areas of the North American Numbering Plan, Class-4 telephone switches are the interchange points between numbering plan areas. v t e...
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    implementations achieved the same switching topology in solid-state electronics. The crossbar switch is one of the principal telephone exchange architectures, together...
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  • would allow the Los Angeles operator to dial via the tandem switch (i.e., class-4 telephone switch) to the Mount Pleasant operator's switchboard, and have...
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    electromechanical telephone switching systems. Because of the abundance of rotary dial equipment still on use well into the 1990s, many telephone keypads were...
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    PSTN network topology is the switching network topology of a telephone network connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). In the United...
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    the design of large networks of switches, as for example used in telephone exchanges. In the simplest case, a switch has two conductive pieces, often...
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  • IMA2 switch. It then produced the ITS-5 switch, which met the Class-5 telephone switch requirements, the ITS-4 switch, which met the Class-4 telephone switch...
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    Digital Multiplex System (category Telephone exchange equipment)
    Rural/Urban digital loop carrier, the DMS-10 telephone switch, the DMS SuperNode family of telephone switches (DMS-100, DMS-200, DMS-250, DMS-300, DMS-500...
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  • gateway" refers to the Class-4 telephone switches these gateways often connect to, which are also referred to as "trunking switches" because of their use...
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  • Crossbar Switching System (1XB), was the primary technology for urban telephone exchanges served by the Bell System in the mid-20th century. Its switch fabric...
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  • switching systems Class 4 - Toll-access switching systems Class 5 - End-office switching systems Class 5 end-office switches provide local telephone service...
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  • Original North American area codes (category Telephone numbers in the United States)
    Electric No. 4 Crossbar Switching System in Philadelphia to commercial service, in August 1943, automated the process of forwarding telephone calls between...
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  • interconnection method in the 21st century, used with the Lucent 5ESS Class-5 telephone switch to present day), microwave radio relay and ultimately fiber-optic...
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  • others. Social factors like class, religion, gender, and age influence the pattern of language that is used and switched between. There are three different...
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  • ringers. The GTD-5 EAX, GTE Automatic Electric's digital class 4/5 central office telephone switch, was first deployed on June 26, 1982. GTE Automatic Electric...
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  • Traffic Service Position System (category History of the telephone)
    Class 5 end office circuit switch systems and Class 4 toll access circuit switch systems that were connected to Class 3 primary toll circuit switch systems...
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  • the need for telephone operators to manually record calls. Modern ANI has two components: information digits, which identify the class of service, and...
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  • "Confessions of a Telephone Girl" Montana: The Magazine of Western History 47.4 (1997): 68–75. online Kenneth Lipartito, "When Women Were Switches: Technology...
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  • International gateway exchange (category Telephone exchanges)
    an international gateway exchange is a telephone switch that forms the gateway between a national telephone network and one or more other international...
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