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So it probably sufficiently far removed now that I can talk about it but I was involved in taking a look behind the scenes at a telco over a decade ago while do
by newman314 2y ago
So it probably sufficiently far removed now that I can talk about it but I was involved in taking a look behind the scenes at a telco over a decade ago while doing due diligence.
The telco had a pair of Tandem systems acting as the FTP server for all the telco switches. Pretty wild if you think about it.
- sillywalk 2y agoIt seems like overkill for just FTP. Although I believe that Tandem also was (is?) fairly common in running telco stuff, plus billing.
- newman314 2y agoI don't disagree at all. But I guess they really wanted their CDRs. Another unusual piece of tech was the use of SLR tape drives. That's really the only time I have encountered those in the wild.
- Sylamore 2y agoTelcos I've touched have used Tandems for E911, SMS processing, Device authorization, and automated tariff negotiation between CLEC/ILEC, but FTP server is a new one!