This is an incomplete list of central office ([[telephone company]] operated) telephone switches.
See
Automatic Electric
==American Digital
Switching==
2000 [1]
See
also Lucent
E10 FIVE
System 12 Remote Switching Unit (RSU)
Family)
==[[Automatic
Electric]]==
370B
CXP5
3072 Line
GTD-5 EAX (Class 5 switch, many in use today, was the primary
switch in former GTE exchanges. Now supported by Lucent.)
No. 1
obsolete system for operator handled LD calls.)
OXO
Avaya Switches
INDeX
System)
Discontinued Avaya Switches
(Electro-mechanical Key System made by Western Electric)
DEFINITY BCS (Business Communications System)
(Enterprise Communications Server)
DEFINITY Communications System Generic 2 (Formerly, System 85)
DEFINITY Communications System Generic 3 (Formerly System 75)
DIMENSION (Previously made by AT&T)
Cabinet)
MERLIN ("Classic", Originally made by AT&T)
MERLIN PLUS ("Classic", Originally made by AT&T)
("Classic", Originally made by AT&T)
MERLIN MAGIX, Integrated Communications System
PARTNER II
System 25 (Previously made by AT&T)
made by AT&T)
System 85 (Previously made by AT&T)
== GPO/[[PO
Telecom|PO]]/ British Telecommunications==
Automatic eXchange No 5
UAX8
UAX13
TXE2
TXE4E
(telephony)|System X]]
AN
RAX [2]
MAX [3]
RAX [4]
TAX [5]
CSX 1100
DGT3450
DTS-4000 [8]
Dikon ISDN
switch [9]
==DSC
Communications Corp.==
DSC merged with Alcatel-Lucent
DEX 200
600SC
==[[Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute]] (Korea)== The TDX switch was a joint project with Korea Telecom and four manufacturers, LG Electronics, Samsung Telecommunications, Daewoo Telecom and Hanwha Telecom. [10]
TDX-10 [13]
TDX-100
AFG
ARE13
signalling)
switching centre)
ARM202
exchange|AXE]] 10
AXE Transgate
==Excel
Switching==
1000 [15]
EXS
2000 [16]
EXS
4000 [17]
EXS
8000 [18]
EXS
16000 [19]
EXS
30000 [20]
LNX
1000 [21]
C140
150 Local
650
9600L
1996-2002, manufactured by [[List_of_telephone_switches#Tadiran Telecom|Tadiran Telecom]])
SL, discontinued)
discontinued)
Coral FlexiCom 5000 (formerly Coral III)
(formerly Coral III)
Coral IPx 800
==Great
Dragon Telecom (GDT)==
GEC
later became Marconi (Britain)
HDX-10
C&C08
== Hyundai
Electronics Industries==
HDX-300 [25]
HDX-2000 [26]
ACT6000 [27]
SI2000 [28]
CT1
UT100
==[[ITT
Corporation]] (Includes ITT-Kellogg)==
Electric DSS)
TE400H
7XB
(ITT-Kellogg)
Relaymatic (ITT-Kellogg)
100 Line Automatic/Manual Military Tactical Switch (retired)
===ITT
(Europe)===
switching' system)
smaller/rural areas)
(SPC electronic)
(Later Bosch Telecom)
JISCOS
8005 [29]
JISCOS
8007 [30]
XE30 [31]
All Relay
CX 90
STAREX-TX1 [32]
STAREX-VK [33]
(VKX Ltd, Vietnam)
(telephony)|System X]]
VP3510
SX5
SX2000
These
are Mobile Telephone Switching Office Cellular switches
EMX2500
==[[NEC Corporation|NEC]]==
NC23SE
NCX23
ND20S
NEAX-61E Remote
license from Western Electric)
Electronic CPU, 4-stage Crossbar switching fabric, PBX)
(Analog / Digital hybrid PBX)
DX 200
==North
Electric (Galion, Ohio)==
system designed by Edward Clements "Clement eXchange")
line)
("broadspan" up to 200 lines)
10,000 lines)
exchanges)
based on Ericsson "code switch")
Xbar switches and "Omni" processors)
& D; All based on Ericsson By-Path Crossbar license)
(Final production version)
trunk and number-group translation services)
90–1800 line CDO Xbar)
(Improved cabinets)
Switcher (NX-2A in a trailer for portable/emergency use)
TSW2
(Used by US Air Force - only one was known in existence at Sembach AB, Germany) (retired)
Switch (Used by US Army and Air Force) (retired)
==[[Nortel Networks|Nortel]]==
5300|Application Server 5300 (AS5300)]]
Communications Manager|Business Communications Manager (BCM)]]
BCM50
Communication Servers|Communication Servers (CS Systems)]]
CS1000 (22,500 lines 3200 trunks TDM and VoIP)
lines 8,400 trunks TDM and VoIP)
CS2000 (180,000 lines 200,000 trunks TDM and VoIP)
Communication Server 2100|CS2100]] (230,000 ports, 125,000 IP phones, 150,000 analog telephones, 125,000 digital telephones, 200,000 IP trunks, 50,025 digital trunks, 32,000 analog trunks, 200,000 SS7 trunks,
4,093 H.323 gateways, 112,000 nodes per host, 99,999 ACD agents)
Digital Multiplex System (DMS)
DMS-10 Carrier Class Switching System (320 ISDN PRI links or more than 20,000 lines) (First "production" class 5 digital switch installed in public telephone network{fact})
DMS-10 RSLE (520 line remote)
DMS-10S (super small DMS-10 for very small exchanges, less than 640
lines)
"box")
Exchanges
previously known as an SL-100 when used for Centrex service)[[Image:Nortel DMS100 public voice exchange.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A Nortel DMS-100e used by an operator to offer local and long distance services in France]]
DMS-100/200 (local/toll digital more than 135,000 lines)
DMS-200 (toll digital)
Switch-digital)
DMS-300/250 (combination Carrier/International Gateway 70,000 to
100,000 trunks)
DMS-Global Services Platform
Stored Program (SP) (Electronic Stored Program Control using mini-bar switches)
(Toll)
Electric version of Western Electric) #1ESS {licensee} [ citation needed])
Western Electric) 4A toll {licensee} [ citation needed])
NE-5XB (Northern Electric version of Western Electric) #5Xbar
{licensee} [ citation needed])
Northern designed crossbar CDO)
crossbar CDO)
==Nortel
Netaş (Turkey)==
I [34]
Elif I
I [35]
DRX-4 [36]
==[[Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone|NTT]]==
D60 [37]
D70 [38]
==[[Oki
Electric Industry|Oki]]==
D60
D70
KB270 [42]
UR
(telephony)|PRX]]/A
==Pupin Telecom==
20 [43]
DKTS
30 [44]
==REDCOM
Labs==
IGX-MT
"stackable" to 384 lines/trunks
==[[Samsung Telecommunications]]==
S-1240 [45]
SDX-100 [46]
SDX-200 [47]
SDX-RB [48]
==[[Siemens
AG|Siemens]]==
No. 51 Step-by-Step
EMD57
ESK 10000 E [49]
EWSD
Unit RSU-DE4
DCO-CS (Formerly Stromberg Carlson DCO)
(Formerly Equitel)
GSX4000
Topcom 200
DCO 21
DCO6000
Remote Line Switch 4000 (RLS 4000)
DTM
ESC-3
from Northern Electric (Canada) for US sales/distribution)
Motorswitch - Siemens (Germany)
Ericsson "flat motion" switch operated in horizontal planes)
The
DCO family starts as generic DCO
Switch 10,000 lines)
enhanced, class features, centrex, etc.)
Switch, controlled by hosts above)
cabinet 1000 lines in a subdivision - required multiple T-1's to host)
RLS 4000 (Same thing, but 4000 lines)
ability in a host outage to make intra-cabinet calls)
line switches will also talk to AT&T SLC-96 pedestals - 96 lines on a
ped
long distance all T-1 cards)
Note: DCO systems are now supported by GENBAND
FlexiCom 200 (formerly Coral SL, discontinued)
300 (formerly Coral I, discontinued)
(formerly Coral II)
Coral FlexiCom 6000 (formerly Coral III)
Coral IPx 500
Coral IPx 4000
TMX-10 [50]
TMX-100 [51]
===[[Stepping
switch|Step-by-Step]]===
===[[Crossbar switch]]===
Tekelec 9000 Distributed Switching Solution (formerly SanteraOne)
Tekelec 7000 Class 5 Packet Switch (formerly Taqua Open Compact
Exchange)
Digital Concentrator) [52]
Tropico R (Small Capacity Local/Tandem
Exchange) [53]
Tropico RA (Local/Transit
Exchange) [54]
==[[:de:Rundfunk-
und Fernmelde-Technik#VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik|VEB Kombinat
Nachrichtenelektronik]]==
2000 [55]
ENSAD [56]
ITS 4
== Western Electric / AT&T Technologies / Lucent== ===[[Stepping switch|Step-by-Step]] / Strowger===
No. 350A
No. 360A
Panel Tandem
(GCO)
No. 1 Crossbar
Crossbar 2-Wire
No. 4A/CTS Crossbar (Card Translator System)
Crossbar (Electronic Translator System)
No. 4M ETS Crossbar
Crossbar 2-Wire
Crossbar
===[[Electronic Switching System]] SPC===
Illinois]]. In operation November 1960–?. This switch was never given a
name other than "Morris ESS".)
switch|No. 1 ESS (1ESS)]]
4-Wire
ESS
===[[Electronic
Switching System]] TDM===
No. 5 ESS ( 5ESS)
Digital Exchange)
Exchange)
(Remote Switching Module)
No. 5E XC (Extended Capabilities)
(Revolutionary/Evolutionary)
(10A RSS)
BZ5000 [57]
(formerly Batik Elcom 4KT from Batik/Zetax,
Brazil) [58]
CSD
PacketStar PSAX1000/1250/2300/4500
Platform/Lucent Compact Switch (formerly Telica Plexus 9000)
Zetax ZTX610 [60]
ZX500 [61]
ZXJ10 [62]
ZXJ2000 [63]
==Experimental
and canceled switches==
LCS [64]
Mitel
CX5000 [65]
Collins Radio Corp.
DTS [66]
Country | Manufacturer | Model | Space/Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
DDR | VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik | DVZ 2000 | Time | |
DDR | VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik | ENSAD | Space | |
Finland | Nokia | DX200 | Time | |
Denmark | Dikon | CE | Time | |
Brazil | Tropico |
This is an incomplete list of central office ([[telephone company]] operated) telephone switches.
See
Automatic Electric
==American Digital
Switching==
2000 [1]
See
also Lucent
E10 FIVE
System 12 Remote Switching Unit (RSU)
Family)
==[[Automatic
Electric]]==
370B
CXP5
3072 Line
GTD-5 EAX (Class 5 switch, many in use today, was the primary
switch in former GTE exchanges. Now supported by Lucent.)
No. 1
obsolete system for operator handled LD calls.)
OXO
Avaya Switches
INDeX
System)
Discontinued Avaya Switches
(Electro-mechanical Key System made by Western Electric)
DEFINITY BCS (Business Communications System)
(Enterprise Communications Server)
DEFINITY Communications System Generic 2 (Formerly, System 85)
DEFINITY Communications System Generic 3 (Formerly System 75)
DIMENSION (Previously made by AT&T)
Cabinet)
MERLIN ("Classic", Originally made by AT&T)
MERLIN PLUS ("Classic", Originally made by AT&T)
("Classic", Originally made by AT&T)
MERLIN MAGIX, Integrated Communications System
PARTNER II
System 25 (Previously made by AT&T)
made by AT&T)
System 85 (Previously made by AT&T)
== GPO/[[PO
Telecom|PO]]/ British Telecommunications==
Automatic eXchange No 5
UAX8
UAX13
TXE2
TXE4E
(telephony)|System X]]
AN
RAX [2]
MAX [3]
RAX [4]
TAX [5]
CSX 1100
DGT3450
DTS-4000 [8]
Dikon ISDN
switch [9]
==DSC
Communications Corp.==
DSC merged with Alcatel-Lucent
DEX 200
600SC
==[[Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute]] (Korea)== The TDX switch was a joint project with Korea Telecom and four manufacturers, LG Electronics, Samsung Telecommunications, Daewoo Telecom and Hanwha Telecom. [10]
TDX-10 [13]
TDX-100
AFG
ARE13
signalling)
switching centre)
ARM202
exchange|AXE]] 10
AXE Transgate
==Excel
Switching==
1000 [15]
EXS
2000 [16]
EXS
4000 [17]
EXS
8000 [18]
EXS
16000 [19]
EXS
30000 [20]
LNX
1000 [21]
C140
150 Local
650
9600L
1996-2002, manufactured by [[List_of_telephone_switches#Tadiran Telecom|Tadiran Telecom]])
SL, discontinued)
discontinued)
Coral FlexiCom 5000 (formerly Coral III)
(formerly Coral III)
Coral IPx 800
==Great
Dragon Telecom (GDT)==
GEC
later became Marconi (Britain)
HDX-10
C&C08
== Hyundai
Electronics Industries==
HDX-300 [25]
HDX-2000 [26]
ACT6000 [27]
SI2000 [28]
CT1
UT100
==[[ITT
Corporation]] (Includes ITT-Kellogg)==
Electric DSS)
TE400H
7XB
(ITT-Kellogg)
Relaymatic (ITT-Kellogg)
100 Line Automatic/Manual Military Tactical Switch (retired)
===ITT
(Europe)===
switching' system)
smaller/rural areas)
(SPC electronic)
(Later Bosch Telecom)
JISCOS
8005 [29]
JISCOS
8007 [30]
XE30 [31]
All Relay
CX 90
STAREX-TX1 [32]
STAREX-VK [33]
(VKX Ltd, Vietnam)
(telephony)|System X]]
VP3510
SX5
SX2000
These
are Mobile Telephone Switching Office Cellular switches
EMX2500
==[[NEC Corporation|NEC]]==
NC23SE
NCX23
ND20S
NEAX-61E Remote
license from Western Electric)
Electronic CPU, 4-stage Crossbar switching fabric, PBX)
(Analog / Digital hybrid PBX)
DX 200
==North
Electric (Galion, Ohio)==
system designed by Edward Clements "Clement eXchange")
line)
("broadspan" up to 200 lines)
10,000 lines)
exchanges)
based on Ericsson "code switch")
Xbar switches and "Omni" processors)
& D; All based on Ericsson By-Path Crossbar license)
(Final production version)
trunk and number-group translation services)
90–1800 line CDO Xbar)
(Improved cabinets)
Switcher (NX-2A in a trailer for portable/emergency use)
TSW2
(Used by US Air Force - only one was known in existence at Sembach AB, Germany) (retired)
Switch (Used by US Army and Air Force) (retired)
==[[Nortel Networks|Nortel]]==
5300|Application Server 5300 (AS5300)]]
Communications Manager|Business Communications Manager (BCM)]]
BCM50
Communication Servers|Communication Servers (CS Systems)]]
CS1000 (22,500 lines 3200 trunks TDM and VoIP)
lines 8,400 trunks TDM and VoIP)
CS2000 (180,000 lines 200,000 trunks TDM and VoIP)
Communication Server 2100|CS2100]] (230,000 ports, 125,000 IP phones, 150,000 analog telephones, 125,000 digital telephones, 200,000 IP trunks, 50,025 digital trunks, 32,000 analog trunks, 200,000 SS7 trunks,
4,093 H.323 gateways, 112,000 nodes per host, 99,999 ACD agents)
Digital Multiplex System (DMS)
DMS-10 Carrier Class Switching System (320 ISDN PRI links or more than 20,000 lines) (First "production" class 5 digital switch installed in public telephone network{fact})
DMS-10 RSLE (520 line remote)
DMS-10S (super small DMS-10 for very small exchanges, less than 640
lines)
"box")
Exchanges
previously known as an SL-100 when used for Centrex service)[[Image:Nortel DMS100 public voice exchange.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A Nortel DMS-100e used by an operator to offer local and long distance services in France]]
DMS-100/200 (local/toll digital more than 135,000 lines)
DMS-200 (toll digital)
Switch-digital)
DMS-300/250 (combination Carrier/International Gateway 70,000 to
100,000 trunks)
DMS-Global Services Platform
Stored Program (SP) (Electronic Stored Program Control using mini-bar switches)
(Toll)
Electric version of Western Electric) #1ESS {licensee} [ citation needed])
Western Electric) 4A toll {licensee} [ citation needed])
NE-5XB (Northern Electric version of Western Electric) #5Xbar
{licensee} [ citation needed])
Northern designed crossbar CDO)
crossbar CDO)
==Nortel
Netaş (Turkey)==
I [34]
Elif I
I [35]
DRX-4 [36]
==[[Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone|NTT]]==
D60 [37]
D70 [38]
==[[Oki
Electric Industry|Oki]]==
D60
D70
KB270 [42]
UR
(telephony)|PRX]]/A
==Pupin Telecom==
20 [43]
DKTS
30 [44]
==REDCOM
Labs==
IGX-MT
"stackable" to 384 lines/trunks
==[[Samsung Telecommunications]]==
S-1240 [45]
SDX-100 [46]
SDX-200 [47]
SDX-RB [48]
==[[Siemens
AG|Siemens]]==
No. 51 Step-by-Step
EMD57
ESK 10000 E [49]
EWSD
Unit RSU-DE4
DCO-CS (Formerly Stromberg Carlson DCO)
(Formerly Equitel)
GSX4000
Topcom 200
DCO 21
DCO6000
Remote Line Switch 4000 (RLS 4000)
DTM
ESC-3
from Northern Electric (Canada) for US sales/distribution)
Motorswitch - Siemens (Germany)
Ericsson "flat motion" switch operated in horizontal planes)
The
DCO family starts as generic DCO
Switch 10,000 lines)
enhanced, class features, centrex, etc.)
Switch, controlled by hosts above)
cabinet 1000 lines in a subdivision - required multiple T-1's to host)
RLS 4000 (Same thing, but 4000 lines)
ability in a host outage to make intra-cabinet calls)
line switches will also talk to AT&T SLC-96 pedestals - 96 lines on a
ped
long distance all T-1 cards)
Note: DCO systems are now supported by GENBAND
FlexiCom 200 (formerly Coral SL, discontinued)
300 (formerly Coral I, discontinued)
(formerly Coral II)
Coral FlexiCom 6000 (formerly Coral III)
Coral IPx 500
Coral IPx 4000
TMX-10 [50]
TMX-100 [51]
===[[Stepping
switch|Step-by-Step]]===
===[[Crossbar switch]]===
Tekelec 9000 Distributed Switching Solution (formerly SanteraOne)
Tekelec 7000 Class 5 Packet Switch (formerly Taqua Open Compact
Exchange)
Digital Concentrator) [52]
Tropico R (Small Capacity Local/Tandem
Exchange) [53]
Tropico RA (Local/Transit
Exchange) [54]
==[[:de:Rundfunk-
und Fernmelde-Technik#VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik|VEB Kombinat
Nachrichtenelektronik]]==
2000 [55]
ENSAD [56]
ITS 4
== Western Electric / AT&T Technologies / Lucent== ===[[Stepping switch|Step-by-Step]] / Strowger===
No. 350A
No. 360A
Panel Tandem
(GCO)
No. 1 Crossbar
Crossbar 2-Wire
No. 4A/CTS Crossbar (Card Translator System)
Crossbar (Electronic Translator System)
No. 4M ETS Crossbar
Crossbar 2-Wire
Crossbar
===[[Electronic Switching System]] SPC===
Illinois]]. In operation November 1960–?. This switch was never given a
name other than "Morris ESS".)
switch|No. 1 ESS (1ESS)]]
4-Wire
ESS
===[[Electronic
Switching System]] TDM===
No. 5 ESS ( 5ESS)
Digital Exchange)
Exchange)
(Remote Switching Module)
No. 5E XC (Extended Capabilities)
(Revolutionary/Evolutionary)
(10A RSS)
BZ5000 [57]
(formerly Batik Elcom 4KT from Batik/Zetax,
Brazil) [58]
CSD
PacketStar PSAX1000/1250/2300/4500
Platform/Lucent Compact Switch (formerly Telica Plexus 9000)
Zetax ZTX610 [60]
ZX500 [61]
ZXJ10 [62]
ZXJ2000 [63]
==Experimental
and canceled switches==
LCS [64]
Mitel
CX5000 [65]
Collins Radio Corp.
DTS [66]
Country | Manufacturer | Model | Space/Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
DDR | VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik | DVZ 2000 | Time | |
DDR | VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik | ENSAD | Space | |
Finland | Nokia | DX200 | Time | |
Denmark | Dikon | CE | Time | |
Brazil | Tropico |