Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!telecom-request From: seanwilliams@attmail.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Can CLASS Software Run on a DMS-100? Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 02:45:27 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 29 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 146, Message 8 of 8 Earlier this week I posted a message asking if CLASS services would be deployed in my area. Jon Baker (bakerj@gtephx) replied to my message saying that maybe he could answer my question if I could tell him what equipment United Telephone System was using in my CO. I called repair service, and they checked with another department. Eventually they got back to me and told my that my CO had a DMS100 switch, which Jon told me was a Northern Telecom product. With this information, is there anyone from NT or UTS out there who could tell me if a DMS100 switch is capable of running CLASS software? I can't get an answer out of the local United Telephone people. When I asked them what switch was in my CO, they told me it was a very old model and that no one knew for sure *what* it was! They must have been looking at information from several years back, because until then Duncannon was served by a Strowger system. I know this only because one Saturday afternoon I walked up to the CO and banged on the door. When the technician opened up, I asked him to show me around. He told me that the system would be replaced in a few years by a silent digital system, which would take up 1/4 the space. And just as he said, it was replaced about a year later. Sean E. Williams | attmail.com!seanwilliams 333 Prospect Avenue / PO Box 227 | seanwilliams@attmail.com Duncannon, PA 17020-0227 USA | voicemail: (717)/957-8139