5ESS

In Switching Systems, efforts concentrated on software upgrades to the 5ESS central office digital switch.

Lucent Technologies 5E-XC high-capacity tandem switch supports up to 256,000 trunk lines, compared to 92,000 trunks on an existing 5ESS switch.

They include many cases of consumer telephone products, the cable joint of submarine fiber cables, the pump laser and repeater for submarine fiber cables, many shelf-level products for the 5ESS and 4ESS, and the product packaging of an early mobile telephone.

It includes an NDIS WAN Miniport driver for Windows 95 including the ISDN Layer 3 stack supporting worldwide ISDN switches such as AT&T 5ESS, Northern Telecom DMS-100, National ISDN-1/2, NTT INS net64 and Euro-ISDN DSS1.

ACSI's state-of-the-art 5ESS electronic switching system, a top-flight Lucent Technologies product, has been installed in the company's downtown Little Rock offices, where plenty of room has been left for expansion as the ACSI network continues to grow.

His other responsibilities and experience are with applications design for AT&T 5ESS ISDN services, cable plant and infrastructure design, as well as satellite and CATV distribution.

The AEC contract, valued at least $252m, calls for AEC to manufacture printed circuit boards and assist AT&T in 5ESS switch integration and testing.

Since 1989, when Frank, now 48, was director of AT&T Bell Laboratories 5ESS switch-system software laboratory in Napierville, Ill., he has been moving up.

Noninterstate (nonfederal interest) intrusions by Shadowhawk included his July 27, 1987, theft of 40 to 50 Unix source code files, including one file worth $5,000; his July 31 theft of 327 highly sophisticated computer-aided, computer-design programs known as COSMOS; and his August 3 theft of the source code for the AT&T 5ESS switching system valued between $28,000 and $40,000.

"In addition, one can also use MAPS[TM] ISDN test tool to test ISDN signalling specification as per other standards such as the 5ESS, 4ESS, BELL, DMS-100, DMS-250, SR-4994, and QSIG ECMA standards.