Time is soon beeing called on telephone exchanges (aka Central Offices) all over the world, but these oddities are an important piece of the data center industry's history. Built to serve the original ...

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Openreach has released a 360-degree video of a modern and surprisingly tidy exchange. None of this is surprising. COs are almost always spotless enough to eat on any surface, and the wire routing ...

While rarely seen by users, the technology behind telephone exchanges is actually quite interesting. In the first hundred or so years of their existence they evolved from manually-operated ...

Thanks to various improvements in telephone technology, we have almost instant communication with not only our neighbors but also others throughout the world. But consider the telephone system of the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – In today’s world of cellphones, stored phone numbers and automatic dialing, we don’t need to remember anybody’s phone number. But back in the day of rotary-dial and push-button ...