The topic of my post might be outside the scope of the forum, but, it may be worth while posting it.
Verizon is in the process of decommissioning it's legacy Central Office switches. The company wants to eliminate the bulk of the Western Electric 5Es and Nortel DMS-10 & 100s in favor of packet switches.
From Verizon documentation posted on the Internet, voice traffic throughout eastern Massachusetts is being sent to a single Central Office. Within that office there will be multiple packet/soft switches...(NWTNMAWAPS0 & NWTNMAWAPS1) [Newton Mass].
In Rhode Island a similar transformation is underway with Providence serving as the main hub.
If these offices were to have some sort of catastrophic failure, wouldn't that cause a hefty regional outage? Does Verizon have the ability to reroute calls to other packet switches in the event something like this were to happen? 🤔
