The telecom industry equivalent to “New and Improved” is “Next Generation.” However, often the terms associated with the next generation of technology shows that a generation will be lost, with paradigms that no longer apply.
Recently we entertained some thirty-year-olds by sounding like we lived in the age of dinosaurs.
We talked about payphones and what the carriers called “coin.” We talked about LATA’s and the LERG (Local Exchange Routing Guide), ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network [D channels]) and ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode). Then we talked about the Cap’n Crunch whistle (which early phone hackers used to make free long-distance calls), and Signaling System 7 (SS7) used in a digital signaling network. Read More
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