AXE telephone exchange

The AXE telephone exchange is a product line of circuit switched digital telephone exchanges  manufactured by Ericsson, a Swedish telecom company.The AXE is the digital successor to the AKE analogue telephone exchange and ARF/ARM family of crossbar switches. The design is modular with an APZ dual processor running in sync mode, an APT switching part and an APG I/O part. It is used to connect local landlines, operate mobile networks (TDMA, GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, PDC), international telephony traffic and signalling.
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