AT&T / Lucent 5ESS removal 5000 line switch. 

keep us up to date on the re-install

I work in corporate administration (project management) for a major telecom and this was so interesting to see. I've heard about 5ESS switches for the last half of my life and fun to finally get to see the ins and outs.

Dude! Thank you for preserving history!

This was an awesome project. I'm glad I was invited to help remove it.

Impressive, hope you have the opportunity to recover your cost of removal and most importantly that you find a good home for the 5 ESS.

I hope that we can see the 5ess powered up and running again soon. I’ve watched the DMS100 build by Joe, awesome!!! Hope to see that same with this one once it’s at its final spot.

This was a really fun project to work on!

This is an awesome video! I have a 5ESS served POTS line, and I've always wanted to see high quality video of one.

Thanx for the video. I never worked on ESS central offices as I went on to CPE, Mitel, NEC and Northern Telecom

Brings back memories. I was in the tech support group for the Lucent 5ESS switches in the AT&T network before it was outsourced to Nokia and India. Spent many of days and nights working with the central office techs changing out cards, tracing wires, putting recordings in the 15A(Rec Anc) you showed, and so on. The TDM switches days are coming to a close as soft switches(VOIP) take over.

Wow 😍 I’d have fun spending ten hours a day on projects like this!

For many years, these things were absolutely state of the art. (Esp during the Internet boom of the '90s and early '00s.) Thousands of these were installed all across North America. Now they are considered obsolete junk. Think on that!

If Dillon is the one who scored this, he's a rich, rich man. Walking away with a gold mine of history. Looking forward to updates of it in it's new home. Loving these videos!

Very very nice. Thank you for the save. All I got is my small collection of partner and ip office systems. :)

I had moved from where a 1A was in place, I couldn't get my two line RSVP (AIN I believe) installed at the adjacent wire center, and I did migrate to ISDN there then 1-way cable modem networked to three PCs in the smallest bedroom. I was the only person on the 1A to get RSVP as it was not actively sold, but as a business office rep, I asked and get.. they had to build it up for me, its like a baby Centrex, it was misconfigured so i could call any of the 6 or so NXXs with 5 digits and a prefix of (bot sure which) * or #. I had a lot of fun with it. As my school days caused me to move to a different wire center we first had a 1A there, and I think it was crossbar at the old place, I discovered a fluke using ESX with two callers talking to each other, each person had to have received a ESX tone, it didn't matter if they clicked over, we built a ESC call by having a third party call one of us (note we didn't subscribe to ESC) so when the third person called one of the other two, the line that would end up holding if the call was taken flashed first, then the line that got the extra party flashed, and the other held party flashed one more time and the three way call was activated. Nowadays the replacement switches barely mute while splitting the line to announce ESC.. We couldn't get these features at the former residence nor my grandma who lived off a downtown switch in her town. I miss the business office job.. not the observing. Eventually my office was closed after I left. VZ land wireline)

I hope to dial into it on cnet in the future!

So if a subscriber served by this central office still has POTS, how are they served once the 5ESS was decommissioned?

Never got to see anything uninstalled. Went from company to company until the last one where we only needed soft switches.

Having worked at my RBOC for 10 years before, I was curious to know what was becoming of the copper switching network with the sunset of POTS services...

Just a little guy. Interesting to see these coming out of the network after all these years.

Thats two bad. All the telcos are switching over to voip. :-). My old pots line is now going to my internet hub in the basement and through a fibre cable back to the c/o. Its supposed to be clearer but now I have to have a UPS to keep it working when the power goes out. Grrr. Oh well I guess everyone has cellular telephones now so it doesn't matter

I know of at least one office, that could use parts from this Switch, as it got wet due to roof leaks! I get the distinct impression Phil is not fond of anything GTE or Automatic Electric.

Wow!

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What customer is this being removed from? Who do you guys work for? Nokia or Goodman?

ISDN it still does nothing .. Was the 5e still in service before it was removed?

was this by any chance in ft. worth TX?

I always heard when a SXS or crossbar office was turned down it was destroyed by salvage companies is this true?

NEEDING someone skilled in translations for the Lucent 5ESS which is currently being used. Specifically, need to turn OFF call code type 074 and turn ON call code type 009---can you help?

I guess I gave up my POTS line (formerly 5ESS) El Segundo, CA just in time.... ;)

So, what's goin' to happen to it?

Are you able to say what the Telephone Company replaced it with?

What is a 'meta switch'?

why don't you donate that 5ESS to the connections museum in Seattle

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Great to see photos of all the usual suspects.