[Outages-discussion] [outages] [META] Some outages are planned

DaZZa dazzagibbs at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 17:43:06 EDT 2020


Wow, Step-by-Step exchanges - that takes me back!

Although, I can remember the cutover of one of the last manual (person
connecting plugs to route calls) exchanges in the country. Now *that*
was old school!

D

On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 03:28, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages
<outages at outages.org> wrote:
>
> We're prone, in the networking and IT world, to use the term "cutover" to
> describe what happens when we replace an old system with a new one.  But even
> if you know where the term comes from... I'll bet you've never actually *seen*
> one:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk
>
> [ reply comments to -discuss ]
>
> Cheers,
> -- jr '<admin/>' a
>
> [* AT&T splash cuts Glendale stepper CO to 5ESS in 1984 ]
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