[comp.dcom.telecom] New Jersey Bell is Also a 'Pioneer'

dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson) (01/25/91)

In article <16364@accuvax.nwu.edu>, our Moderator adds, in part:

> [Moderator's Note: You are welcome. IBT has distinctive ringing and
> all the CLASS features now in about seventy percent of the offices.
> They expect to be fully converted within a few months. We've always
> been first here. We had the first ESS in the late 1960's in Morris,
> IL. Downtown Chicago had ESS in 1974. The entire area was all ESS as

A New Jerseyan wants to toot his horn, too:

Morris, IL, did have an experimental ESS, using a technology never
put into production, and it was before the late 1960's.  The first
1ESS switch, the one that became the standard analog local central
office technology, was trialed in the early 1960's in Succasunna, NJ.
This was after the Morris trial, and before anybody else got
production ESS.

CLASS, including Caller*ID, was first offered in NJ.


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