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  • Verizon is retiring a #5ESS switch in New Jersey [telecom]

    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 24 12:26:18 2022
    Verizon plans to retire and remove the Essex NJ 5ESS switch after it
    migrates all traffic served by the switch to the New Brunswick NJ C20
    switch.

    Verizon Central Offices for the Essex NJ 5ESS switch (IVTNNJESDS5)
    located at 9 Coit St., Irvington, NJ 07111 and the New Brunswick NJ
    C20 switch (NBWKNJNBPS2) located at 18-26 Paterson St., New Brunswick,
    NJ 08901.

    Implementation Date(s) On or after May 1, 2022

    https://www.fcc.gov/document/wcb-network-change-notification-filed-verizon-nj-18

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    ***** Moderator's Note *****

    At one time, the #5ESS was "the" Central Office - the latest, the
    greatest, the most versatile. Now, it's being replaced, in this case,
    by a "C20" switch, and I don't even know what a "C20" switch is.

    I am feeling old.

    Bill Horne
    Moderator

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to Bill Horne on Thu Mar 24 12:12:33 2022
    On 3/24/2022 8:26, Bill Horne wrote:
    Verizon plans to retire and remove the Essex NJ 5ESS switch after it
    migrates all traffic served by the switch to the New Brunswick NJ C20
    switch.

    ***** Moderator's Note *****

    At one time, the #5ESS was "the" Central Office - the latest, the
    greatest, the most versatile. Now, it's being replaced, in this case,
    by a "C20" switch, and I don't even know what a "C20" switch is.


    "Soft switch"... I.E. "VoIP"

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  • From Lewandowski, John (Nokia - US)@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 24 13:48:49 2022
    ***** Moderator's Note *****

    At one time, the #5ESS was "the" Central Office - the latest, the
    greatest, the most versatile. Now, it's being replaced, in this
    case, by a "C20" switch, and I don't even know what a "C20" switch
    is.

    Most likely a Nortel (now Ribbon) CS-2000 as the core with a Gx or MGx
    media gateways. Not as good but with significant power +consumption
    savings.

    I still work with the 5ESS daily but it is indeed becoming a relic of
    days gone by. Most of my smaller deployments have been replaced by
    either Cisco or Ribbon solutions and the larger ones are being
    migrated to N4E (the updated 4ESS) when acting as a tandem or for end
    offices services are now with the Metaswitch or Sonus solutions.

    As much as I love the DMS it is like a black and white television in a
    color 5ESS world. Someday I will be running a VCDX with DNUS in my
    basement.

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