Bell System until that time. When it was introduced, the 4ESS switch was Michael N. Meyers the largest high-capacity digital switch in existence, capable of terminating 107,520 trunks and completing over 500,000 calls per hour. During the next 18 years, the 4ESS switch played a pivotal role in enabling the emerging U.S. long distance market to grow into today's $60 billion industry. The hallmark reliability and capacity of the 4ESS switch set the standard for digital switching. Since then, neither technology nor service needs have stood still. Although the classic digital switch architecture pioneered by the 4ESS switch has passed the test of time, every major subsystem within the switch has gone through one or more technology upgrades to accept new features and reduce costs. This paper describes the evolution of the 4ESS switch, how our customers' investment has been protected, and how new features have been added by selectively upgrading 4ESS switch subsystems.
This paper examines two different examples of how No. 4 ESS software has evolved through restructuring to meet the needs of the changing No. 4 ESS environment. The two software areas that under went varying degrees of incremental restructure are Call Processing and Fault Recovery. We characterize the pre-restructure architec tures, discuss the motivation and rationale which led to restructure, and present and evaluate the post-restructure architecture for each software system.
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