<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 4/30/02 4:38:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, synth1@airmail.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">HA! I designed a 672 channel telephone SLIC system (analog phone to T1). Each channel had 6
<BR>Aromat relays (3 for line, 3 for remote testing). That's 4032 per rack. The average central
<BR>office had 64 racks or 258,048 relays. </BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>Funny, I thought these were usually used in outside plant enclosures, the 5 foot wide white boxes, for doing pair gain out miles away from the CO instead of running lots of copper.
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<BR>-Chris (sells telecom gear for living, was phone phreak in previous life)
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