nice! so funny that no one knows what a soft switch is or a media gateway.
we had the lucent LCP/LSS with 2 shelves + telica media gateways, uMGW, pMGW, aMGW but i doubt they are called the same in CDMA. i loved working in unix every day. lots and lots of tricks that lucent never teaches you.
instead of juniper, lucent has been installing their "alcatel" 7670 atm router to handle the encapsulation on the T1 in most lucent sites now.
isnt the 5ESS EOL now? i know at AT&T they were getting rid of most of them because GSM and UMTS were either using nortel, ericsson, or the LSS.