Bye-bye, copper wire: analog era comes to an end in the Grand Duchy

Дата публикации: 09-07-2026 13:01:32

The hum of the analogue exchange, a sound synonymous with late twentieth-century communication, has fallen utterly silent in the Grand Duchy. Post Luxembourg, the state-owned giant that has knitted the nation together since 1842, has pulled the plug on its legacy copper network for good, marking the definitive end of an era that began with the clunky charm of rotary dials and culminated in the digital precision of the EWSD system. The final decommissioning took place last week, a quiet but seismic shift that sees the country sever its last physical tether to the circuit-switched past and stride fully into the digital ether of a pure All-IP architecture. This isn’t merely an upgrade; it is a fundamental rewiring of the nation’s nervous system. The EWSD, or Electronic Digital Switching System, which was introduced with much fanfare in the 1980s, was a marvel of its time. It replaced the electro-mechanical gymnastics of the EMD switches from the 1950s – those ‘Edelmetall-Motor-Drehwähler’ that first brought automation to the country’s call setup and banished the human operators who once physically connected calls. For decades, EWSD handled the routing of voice traffic with reliable digital precision, a workhorse that dutifully carried Luxembourg’s chatter. But [...]
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