Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: My New 1AESS Generic - Some Missing Features Message-ID: <12838@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 30 Sep 90 20:03:51 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 699, Message 4 of 10 Steve Rhoades writes: > The good folks at Pacific*Bell have decided to bless me with a new ESS > generic. I am sorry I don't know the number. > There were several nice bugs (features ?) in the old generic that I'll > miss. But what you'll get in return is CLASS features, eventually. The new generic that supports all of the whizzo/whoopie features that you hear about everywhere else in the country is being phased in to all of Pac*Bell's switches. Most of the Bay Area switches were upgraded over a year ago. It goes without saying that those "features" that you enjoyed so much were, in reality, bugs that were corrected in the natural course of software upgrade. Be thankful that you can still receive call waiting while on a three-way call and add a third party before supervision -- things that some digital switches are incapable of. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !