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- Subject: 5ESS-2000 Switch
- Message-ID: <telecom13.44.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 04:01:51 GMT
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- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 44, Message 3 of 15
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- new product designed to bring advanced "digital" computerized switch
- services to rural telephone customers across the United States, plant
- officials said Wednesday.
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- The new switching product is a smaller, stand-alone version of
- AT&T's "5ESS" digital telecommunications switch already made at the
- plant.
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- The product will provide many modern services in market areas with
- 1,000 or fewer customers where it previously may not have been
- economically feasible for a small phone utilities [sic] to provide
- such services.
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- "Telephone customers in rural areas want access to the same
- custom-calling and digital business services that suburban and urban
- customers take for granted," said Pete Gannon, manufacturing vice
- president at AT&T's Oklahoma City plant.
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- "This new product will deliver to the rural markets the same
- features, software and operational capabilities as our larger
- switches," he said.
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- AT&T announced plans for the new product, known as the 5ESS-2000
- Switch Compact Digital Exchange, Wednesday in Maui, Hawaii, at the
- annual meeting of the Organization for the Protection and Advancement
- of Small Telephone Companies.
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- The first shipments of this new product are expected in early 1994.
- Initial production work may start at the Oklahoma City plant late this
- year.
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- "While we anticipate significant demand for this product, it is not
- expected to require an increase in the size of our work force," Gannon
- said.
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- The Oklahoma City factory, which had product sales of $1.8 billion
- in 1992, has about 4,100 employees.
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