Call from Austria to the U.S. Step switch to a step switch.

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International call from Austria to the U.S.
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[@user181]

This is very interesting!

[@brentwatson4930]

Wow. Gotta love analog systems!

[@oliverw.douglas285]

I seriously need to establish a CNET Line to my old telephone equipment. Is there somewhere, where I can learn what steps are necessary to get setup on CNET?

[@sxsphil]

If you join the telephone, collectors international, or at least go to their homepage, look for the Cnet docs. I do not administer my own Cnet computer. There are many people who would be happy to help.

[@oliverw.douglas285]

@@sxsphil Thank you! :)

[@MichaelWallace-oq3wd]

@@oliverw.douglas285 Are you new to this stuff?

[@raxneff]

Wow. Thanks for the vid. Can you tell use more about that. Where exactly are the phones (in Austria and Ohio) and how do you get access to the room with the switches. Would also like to see schematics of what you describe.

[@compu85]

These switches are in private collections.

[@jeffmoss26]

Very cool!

[@RFTFunkerAC]

Nice Video, but who is the guy in Austria? I have a couple of questions about connecting old german equipment to the internet

[@c0t0d0s7]

Cool stuff!

[@Stache987]

I don't understand metering pulses on a call over the internet that doesn't get answered

[@christophlauter9266]

Because it's an *Austrian* system. In Austria, local metering pulses were sent as soon as the first digit was dialed. There were additional metering pulses during the call.

[@magesnz]

How does the metering pulses work? And what the box next to the phone do?

[@magesnz]

What the box used for?

[@petef.4361]

I don't know WTF I just watched, but is this showing old tech from the 80's? This can't possibly be what is used modern day to make a call from Austria to the US. What era is this from? I assume it's all digital now?

[@raxneff]

Because it's said that "The call comes in from the internet ...", I guess that he choose a very rural Austrian place with this old electro-mechanical system and a rural place in Ohio as well. The main intercontinental connection is digitalised (over the internet), but the end nodes are not.

[@jmi5969]

@@raxneff Do they actually keep end nodes alive these days? How many people in the US still have land line connection? (I wouldn't know, I cancelled mine more than twenty years ago).

[@raxneff]

@@jmi5969 I don't know for the US, in Austria definitely yes, they do. But often the telephone line will be used in ADSL-mode in order to provide internet access as well. The "last mile" is probably the most outdated part of the telephone system, because digging is expensive/hard.

[@christophlauter9266]

​@@raxneff None of the offices, not the one in Austria, not the one Oregon is an office still in commercial use. There are collectors of old phones and phone equipment like this. They have built the Collectors Network (CNET), which is used for the intercontinental part of this call.

[@compu85]

You're looking at equipment from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, interfaced with modern Linux software over the internet.

[@Madness832]

Rotary switch at 1:10?

[@paulwarner5395]

Thought that my self until the call was setup. Looked like a 7A2 switch but is some sort of step switch. Never seen one like it before..

[@Bremerhoben]

@@paulwarner5395 This is a typical german step switch, whitch was already invented/constructed by the company of Siemens & Halske in 1927. It was used over 50 years in different public and private offices or telephone switching systems. In this case as a "pre-selector" with the two line-relays above. Plenty european telephone-companies, for exaple in Austria, Germany, Switzerland..., produced this type of selector. Greetings from Germany

[@paulwarner5395]

@@Bremerhoben Thanx for the information 🙂

[@spg3331]

no idea whats going on but it looks neat!