Hardware Growth and Conversion In A Distributed Switching System

Hardware growth and conversion in a working telephone switching office requires software programs integrated with manual procedures to bring new or updated equipment into a central office. Hardware growth is the process of gracefully adding additional equipment to a central office with the intention of expanding its capacity Hardware conversion is used when existing centralized equipment is updated or replaced. This paper further defines growth and conversion and gives examples of each for the AT&T 5ESSTM Switching System.