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| Originally Posted by Lmo Won't be long.
It's already happened once.
Remember the step switches? You had an entire building to house a switch and it was like stepping inside a grandfather clock. All that stuff and all that noise packed wall to wall. We replaced those steppers with a few rows of DMS or even a few cabinets of remote equipment off a DMS and look how empty the place got. I was always amazed to go back to those offices after the DMS was cut over and the tear out had been completed on the stepper. There'd be the DMS standing in an other wise empty building. |
I'm with you there. A three story Central Office with the new electronic switch occupying 1/8 of one floor. The biggest device in the building was the frame which hasn't changed much, at least the last time I was in a CO it looked pretty much the same. It dwarfed the CO switch sitting next to it.