.lucent.com/netsys/5ESS/5esswtch.htmlA big advantage of the 5ESS Switch is its modular design. This modularity allows for ease of implementing continuing enhancements and allows service providers the ability to change their communication network quickly.Telephone administrations are often concerned with: Increasing busy hour call completion capacity Minimizing floor space requirements Enabling growth in small increments Integrating multiple applications in one exchange Reducing power consumption and operational costsThe 5ESS Switch architecture and software addresses each of these concerns. Advanced services from the 5ESS Switch can be provided to all customers wherever they are located.Picture - http://www.lucent.com/netsys/5ESS/5esswth.html The newest 5ESS Switch out on the market is the 5ESS-2000 Switch, which provides local and long distance, wireless and wireline, custom and national ISDN and multiple advanced services. The 5ESS-2000 Switch continues to handle the changing and increasing needs of customers, providing a multi-services platform that gives service providers the ability to offer subscribers a wide range of services. These services include wireless services (both cellular and PCS), Internet and on-line services access, Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) services, multimedia services, local and long distance services - all from a single switch. The 5ESS-2000 Switch stands alone as the only platform in the industry capable of simultaneously supporting any combination of wireline, voice, data and video services off the same switch. This unique concept - what we call the AnyMedia Network Solution - enables the 5ESS-2000 Switch to deliver the total strategic flexibility and cost-effectiveness that a business requires and that no other platform can match.Picture (5) - http://www.lucent.com/netsys/5ESS/anymedia/index.htmlWhether a service provider modernizes switches, flattens a network hierarchy through consolidation or b...
