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- Date: 30 Dec 87 08:25:56 GMT
- From: portal!cup.portal.com!Patrick_A_Townson@uunet.uu.net
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Subject: Digital ESS: For The Birds
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- By the by, if your telco someday announces they are switching to digital
- ESS, politely hold up your middle finger and invite them enjoy themselves
- with it....
-
- Most unreliable...that's the only way I can describe it.....two central
- offices here, Chicago-Kildare and Chicago-Irving both cut to digital ESS
- a few weeks ago....
-
- They've both gone down about five times! I swear if they reboot the thing
- once a day they do it five times a day....
-
- I am out of Chicago-Edgewater, an "old fashioned" ESS, but our TSPS operators
- work out of Irving office; I was talking to a buddy with an Irving number,
- the line went dead; I couldn't raise anything there for five minutes, tried
- to get the operator, could not raise him either...finally I did get an
- operator, asked, "did you go down again"...he sort of giggled, said yes, the
- second time this week.... tell your telco NO digital until its de-bugged!
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- Date: 31 Dec 87 01:01:52 GMT
- From: tramp!graefe@boulder.colorado.edu (GRAESE WILLIAM S)
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Subject: Re: Digital ESS: For The Birds
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- In article <2214@cup.portal.com> Patrick_A_Townson@cup.portal.com writes:
- =They've both gone down about five times! I swear if they reboot the thing
- =once a day they do it five times a day....
-
- We at C U Boulder just got a new AT&T Campus 200 phone system installed a
- year and a half ago. Since then I know of 2 crashes, and I will BET
- there have been more.
- Actually there are several handy features with the system. It is an ISDN-
- alike with features like auto call back (rings you when extension is free)
- as well as 9600 FDX on the 'B' jack, and it supports at least two exchanges
- (not fully). Not bad, albeit the down time.
- (BTW, It cost $10.4 million to install!)
- !---------graefe@tramp.Colorado.EDU------------------------! ,---. !
- ! Bill |(insert something terribly witty, humorous, )! | _ _ !
- ! GraeFe, Jr.|(and inspiring in this space: )! `-+-' | !
- !---------{sunybcs, hao}!boulder!tramp!graefe--------------! `---' !
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- Date: 2 Jan 88 07:05:48 GMT
- From: mtune!icus!gil@rutgers.edu (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
- Subject: Digital ESS: For The Birds
-
- Although it IS indeed annoying when the phone system screws-up and leaves
- you hanging, there is much good to say about the new digital ESS...
-
- In the Bay Shore/Islip area of Long Island, NY, our telco changed the CO
- to digital about a year ago. For the first 3-6 weeks, there were unusual
- telephone outages which got annoying.
-
- After 6-8 weeks, all the bugs were basically out and the system has worked
- like a champ! Better yet, I used to attempt 300 (yes, 300) baud connections
- to where I work, 35 miles away. The old switching systems introduced so much
- noise I couldn't use my modem at all for this. After the change to digital,
- this problem went away, and I can work up to 2400 baud with no problems.
-
- Try to bear with the problems, as much of a pain as they are. You will
- eventually reap the benefits of the enhancements.
-
- Gil Kloepfer, Jr. USENET: ...icus!gil
- ICUS Computer Group, Systems Development
- P.O. Box 1 Islip Terrace, New York 11752
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