[erlang-questions] Erlang info

[joe mcguckin]

I recall one of the design wins Erlang had was a switch from Ericsson? Was this a voice pbx or a packet data switch? I assume Erlang controlled the control plane 
functions: If it was a voice switch, surely they must have used C (or similar) to perform the low-level hardware interfacing stuff like voice transcoding, digitization, etc

How easy is it for a  task to fire off a new thread on a different server?

Thanks,

Joe.