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 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! ------------------------------ 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 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--------------! `---' ! ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------