• 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 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 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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  • Central office can mean any of the following: Telephone exchange Class-5 telephone switch Headquarters Corporate headquarters Conservative Campaign Headquarters...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Class 5 may refer to: A5-class customs vessels Class 5 telephone switch Class V (U.S. Army), ammunition of all types, and associated items G-5-class motor...
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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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  • 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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    non-Bell domestic telephone company. Mom-and-pop companies were largely manually operated until the wide adoption of the Class 5 telephone switch providing local...
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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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  • not violated. The databases map telephone numbers to 15-character strings of caller names. Class 5 telephone switches, which provide end-office services...
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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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  • 4 Electronic Switching System (4ESS) is a class 4 telephone electronic switching system that was the first digital electronic toll switch introduced by...
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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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    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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  • address information and control signals from a user's telephone to the wire-center's Class-5 switch. DTMF uses a total of eight frequencies. Multi-frequency...
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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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  • 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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  • presets for audio, found in Sound Blaster sound cards GTD-5 EAX, class 5 digital telephone switch typically used in former GTE service areas National Weather...
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    Namibia's telephone numbering plan was originally devised when the country, then known as South West Africa, was under South African administration, and...
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  • Siemens DCO (category Telephone exchange equipment)
    Richmond, the Stromberg-Carlson DCO was one of the first digital class 5 telephone switches ever installed in the World's telecommunications network, Muller...
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  • Western Electric ringers. The GTD-5 EAX, GTE Automatic Electric's digital class 4/5 central office telephone switch, was first deployed on June 26, 1982...
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  • Call waiting (category Telephone service enhanced features)
    440 Hz 5 ms. Problems playing this file? See media help. Call waiting is a telephone service where a subscriber can accept a second incoming telephone call...
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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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  • 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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  • Original North American area codes (category Telephone numbers in the United States)
    Bell Telephone Magazine. 30 (4): 253. Retrieved 2022-01-20. Korn, F.A.; Ferguson, James G. (1950). "Number 5 Crossbar Dial Telephone Switching System"...
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