Our telephone room in Photos of Broadband gear http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22899591 en Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:36:53 EDT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:36:53 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22992860 Oxygen : Cisco ONS gear is great.

Thank you for the pictures! ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22992860 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:48:52 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22938445 xyar : Wowza, sounds like heavy construction! You could turn that into some cool industrial metal...
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One geek to rule them all!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22938445 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:30:34 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22937239 kewlkeed : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22937239 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:58:04 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22936159 alphapointe :
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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".
Like this recording from the college I went to? I think it was recorded about 1960.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22936159 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:44:10 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22935746 Harddrive : 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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One geek to rule them all!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22924051 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:20:29 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923889 kewlkeed : 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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Have a nice day!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923889 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:43:00 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923468 xyar : 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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One geek to rule them all!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923468 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:15:30 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923397 kewlkeed : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923397 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:06:32 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923260 xyar : 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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One geek to rule them all!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923260 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:38:18 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923127 bobrk : Good. No pennies.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22923127 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:13:20 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22921599 Silentwolf : 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 :D
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22921542 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:31:03 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22921517 xyar : 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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One geek to rule them all!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22921517 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:25:41 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22918228 jeffmoss26 : Man that is history right there. From the picture it looks more like wire-wraps than 66 punchdowns..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22918228 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:31:59 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22916398 xyar : This is one of the phone punchdown panels. Note the *wood* 66 punchdowns!! This is the worst of all of them, though there are panels everywhere.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22916398 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:29:19 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22916288 xyar : It's a Cisco ONS 15310 powered by dual +48 VDC.
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One geek to rule them all!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22916288 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:08:56 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22915482 djweis : What's the model number on the Cisco box? I've not seen that style from them before.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22915482 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:22:40 EDT Re: Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22904159 xyar : Notice the vintage blueprints in the back lol I think that's like 25+ years old.
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We had to add cooling to the phone room this summer
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Switch & voicemail admin consoles
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22904159 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:57:04 EDT Our telephone room http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22899591 xyar : Pretty messy, but functional. Keep in mind, this building dates to 1931 and started as a tiny house, and is now a 20,000+ square foot medical clinic, so this isn't as clean as a new install.

Our fiber is an OC-12 SONET connection to TW Telecom. Over it we have two T1s for telephone (46 trunks), a 10 mbit Internet connection and a 100 mbit WAN connection (Mednet). Our telephone switch is an old (and very reliable) Avaya Definity which handles many thousands of calls a day.

Next I'll pose the server room.
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This is our CPE including the Cisco router
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Fiber splice up close
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Close-up of the OC12 ring
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Cisco router
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Avaya Definity switch and voicemail server
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Punchdowns
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More punchdowns; Old Qwest POTS cabinet visible on extreme right
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