[comp.dcom.telecom] Can CLASS Software Run on a DMS-100?

seanwilliams@attmail.com (02/22/91)

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