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Our telephone room

This is our CPE including the Cisco router

Fiber splice up close

Close-up of the OC12 ring

Cisco router

Avaya Definity switch and voicemail server

Punchdowns

More punchdowns; Old Qwest POTS cabinet visible on extreme right

reply to xyar
What's the model number on the Cisco box? I've not seen that style from them before.

It's a Cisco ONS 15310 powered by dual +48 VDC.
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Man that is history right there. From the picture it looks more like wire-wraps than 66 punchdowns..

There are wire-wraps and punchdowns as well... every sort imaginable bad cell phone pic, sorry..

In the attic we have cloth-covered twisted pair everywhere, over which is our digital phone system lol. And everything is powered by Edison fuses.
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Thats a pretty neat setup you have there.

The hospital I used to work for had tons of wall panels throughout that when opened revealed pretty much what you posted »Re: Our telephone room
Was cool to see the mixture of old technology and new they had, though most of the old wiring and such was just left in place and new stuff ran, so it got kinda messy.

Thanks for posting and hope to see more soon
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Good. No pennies.

lol NO, no pennies BUT we have come across them from time to time around here, in places they shouldn't be...
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Good lord, I almost smell the slightest hint of old electromechanical PBX or switching equipment that could be there.

If there is ANY hint of some StepByStep cans or similar, hit me up on private message. I'd find a way to grab the stuff in a heartbeat.

lol we had electromechanical automatic switching equipment to be sure, but it's been solid-state for decades now. Our contract phone guy told me about when the phone room was so loud from all the relays that you could hear it down the hall and around the corner. I wish I could have seen the old stuff! I asked him if he ever found any REALLY good stuff (gold bars, burial location of Jimmy Hoffa, etc.) but he said he took all the good stuff out in the 70's.
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That sucks!

And I would most certainly believe it in a heartbeat. It's the equivalent of being tossed into a big metal coffee can of nuts and bolts, and shaking it... Now picture a room with about a dozen of these going at the same time, and you've got a "quiet time".

As always, if you're as wacko as me when it comes to old phone stuff, check out www.phonetrips.org. My iPod has played and played and re-played thousands of hours of that stuff by now I'm sure.
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I Wish we still had some of the old stuff like the strings of batteries and such; I've been told it really was like a small-town CO in the 40s and 50s in there. Speaking of iPod, our new music on hold system is a Nano lol
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nice Avaya PBX and Intuity. that wiring panel looks like hell, but i found that all over the place when i worked for Avaya. i was amazed at how crappy the wiring could be in a company and the digital/analog phones would still be nice and clear when you broke dial-tone.
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reply to xyar
Heheh I've heard that one quite a few times now. (And of course to the OP, that's a quiet time in the phone room)

If you have a collection of stuff like that, I'd love to hear it.

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Wowza, sounds like heavy construction! You could turn that into some cool industrial metal...
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reply to xyar
Cisco ONS gear is great.

Thank you for the pictures!