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POTD – Polycom 3xx – Londonderry, NH Fire Department – Central Station
I grew up in this town in part of my young life. I don’t really miss the town that much, but as a kid, I had toured the legendary Central Station of the Londonderry, NH Fire Department. In recent years, the South Fire station built a new base and relocated, and the North Fire station was demolished and became a parking lot for the Senior Center, and was relocated closer to MHT, the large airport north of Boston.
I say legendary for Central because it looked much bigger as a preschooler. As an adult it looks really small. Just look below.
Earlier in the year, I guess they did a 40 minute reel of selling the idea of renovating their department. They even have their own web site, so I guess it passed some town election.
But hey you came here for the phones. In a bathroom!
Guess I’m not the only one right?
And yet I see another (with a Motorola radio, which is understandable.)
On a side note, you may wanted to know how the Town of Londonderry went to VOIP? It goes back all the way to the year 2000, when the town’s board, the Town Council, out of plain silliness approved for a 10 year, $1 million dollar contract with Verizon, the RBOC for New Hampshire for the time… for what? A Centrex contract! Ironically the Town used NEC’s Onyx Key based phone systems, so why the need for Centrex?
POTD: Meridian M2006 Digital set
I’ve been to Las Vegas twice, one in April 2017 and this year.
The McCarren International Airport is pretty large, with a mall (and of course, slots!) In my two experiences at LAS, there are several buildings. The area where Southwest is, it’s pretty small, low ceilings, almost like an underground train station, but when I went this year via American Airlines, it was as grand as I had expected Las Vegas to be. Southwest is closest airline to the baggage claim going inbound, so it was easy to think how “small” it would be.
This would explain why there is a Meridian 1 PBX for the use of airport authorities. It’s not to say that each airline and the TSA have their own interconnections, as those two are Cisco all the way.
This was taken while walking off the Jetway after landing in 2017.
POTD: MTV LA Operations
If you are not addicted to MTV’s Catfish, well you are ether sane or you live under a rock. The TV series exposes people misleading themselves on social media that is supposed to be a platform of full-name, and authentic, which often shows how Facebook can be known as Fakebook.
The series was based on an indie documentary, that became an offspring for MTV’s programming in late 2012, which the ratings soared during the infamous Tao story that circulated in early 2013.
The format of the program changed a couple seasons ago, kinda. You now see the very start of the show of the Skype calls and the follow up Skype calls at “Catfish Headquarters” known as the LA offices of MTV. In a 2016 episode featuring Andrea Russett, a famous YouTuber, who had her likeness used as a catfish tool, the hosts Nev Scuhulman and Max Joseph returned back to base and Nev was pretending to answer a flood of telephone calls on decommissioned Cisco 7900 series sets. (Oh and there’s some Linksys SPA sets mixed in… interesting.)
It was flipping hysterical.
This was obviously an upgrade because in future episodes, the two dudes are at said “HQ” and in the very open office environment, you can see the newer 8800 or 7800 series Cisco set in the background. I don’t use plural because they don’t use the set that much.
One upon a time, Viacom, the parent of MTV, was a heavy Nortel shop, one of their managers told Network World around 1990 about how they preferred to have the Meridian 1 PBX for the ability to have features programmed on hard keys. Obviously Viacom had went through radical corporate changes and will possibly go through some more into 2019. These Cisco phones were sometimes caught on MTV programs and had been seen for at least a decade if not more.
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Polycom VVX 310 Revisit (and a Subject on SIP Telephones)
Some websites you run into show you photos of SIP enabled IP telsets, but the interesting thing, is while it can run on top of an Asterisk for an example; a lot of times they are not. Many open source deployments claims on other sites are heresy, especially if not confirmed. I can say where I live many of these SIP phones go out on the Internet with no box on site. And it’s roaring in and it makes me concerned about small business more vulernable to VOIP than enterprises a decade ago.
POTD: Ugly Avaya Blue Conference set – Southern New Hampshire University
We’re back in business on the ‘Gram that I put on abbreviated dial that I call Instagram!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bda7P_-nPgD/?taken-by=clickfordsmuseumoftelephony
I’m not in college, and nor do I intend to. I happen to visit Southern New Hampshire University on a semi frequent basis with meeting some great people. (SNHU if you are not aware is in fact is a non profit university that happens to be in Southern New Hampshire, for those people who learn over the Internet from say someplace like Las Vegas and claim they are an SNHU student/grad/alumni.)
POTD: [New Generation] Avaya Red Partner 6D Telset
Today’s Phone of the Day features a [Newer Generation] ahem “Euro Series II” Partner 6D set of a place where I spend a couple days a week with some people who help me get through my life.
I have not referred this to “Euro” or “Euro Series II” because those were obscenely bad greymarket rumors spread like motherfrecin wildfire on eBay in the early 2000s (“Euro”) and the 46xx like models in 2005 (“Euro Series II”.) I am the last to defend Avaya currently, but they would frown upon infringing the brand of the phone system. While it was common folklore that it was European inspired when AT&T did the design in 1994/1995, it’s never been officially confirmed by Avaya or it’s decedents. And yes you read that right “AT&T”. This model was released about 1995, over a year before the Lucent spinoff. Some sites like my old town’s library before to moving out in 2010 had these Euro series sets but with the AT&T brand. So people, PLEASE do not call these sets like this one “Series II”. You’re spreading lies and misinformation!
POTD: Teldex Hallway phone, TRYP – Manhattan
I have been to many hotels, but this place and the Mirage is the only two I’ve been to where I have seen sets in the hallway. Of course this isn’t a VOIP set.
POTD: Analog Sets, TRYP, Midtown Manhattan, NY
This is the cordless phone at the hipster hotel I had stayed when I was in New York City back in October. As you can tell it’s one of those Teledex, analog sets. No hotel I’ve ever stayed had any native phone system’s sets in the rooms. I guess it’s above my paygrade to stay at a five-star hotel that may have digital or IP sets. I do know the Teledex markets an ‘iPhone” (surprised that didn’t hit Apple’s or Cisco’s lawyers!) that’s a generic SIP phone that functions like an analog set but works on top of an IP network.
POTD: Javits Center, part two
This Phone of the Day features a photo of that same Cisco phone ether the day before or earlier than the one taken in October.
