{"id":23195,"date":"2026-01-09T19:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=23195"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:53:42","slug":"vin196","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin196\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Telecom Magellan\u2011Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Northern Telecom Magellan\u2011Passport<\/h2>\n<p>[Vin196]<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Telecom Magellan\u2011Passport NTEP39 isn\u2019t a \u201ccomputer\u201d in the home\u2011PC sense but rather an early high\u2011performance telecommunications multiservice switch developed by Canadian telecom giant Northern Telecom (later Nortel). It was part of the Magellan Passport family, a line of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)\u2011based network switches designed in the early 1990s to converge voice, data, and multimedia traffic on a single backbone, notable for its cell\u2011 and frame\u2011based switching architecture, redundant multiprocessor design, and high throughput for the era (~1.6\u202fGbps in early models), making it an important artifact of the transition from legacy circuit networks toward integrated packet\u2011based networks in enterprise and carrier environments.<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-23200\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Telecom Magellan\u2011Passport\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-1538x2048.jpg 1538w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-360x479.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20260109_145149656-scaled.jpg 1922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manufacturer<\/strong>: Northern\u202fTelecom Ltd. later known as Nortel Networks<\/li>\n<li><strong>Model<\/strong>: NTEP39<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Telecommunications ATM<\/li>\n<li><strong>Release Date<\/strong>: 1994<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost at release<\/strong>:\u00a0 ~$20,000 (adjusted for inflation)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MIPS<\/strong>: N\/A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Telecom Magellan\u2011Passport [Vin196] The Northern Telecom Magellan\u2011Passport NTEP39 isn\u2019t a \u201ccomputer\u201d in the home\u2011PC sense but rather an early high\u2011performance telecommunications multiservice switch developed by Canadian telecom giant Northern Telecom (later Nortel). It was part of the Magellan Passport family, a line of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)\u2011based network switches designed in the early 1990s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":19704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Northern Telecom Magellan\u2011Passport - 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