{"id":162,"date":"2012-10-21T22:50:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T02:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:49:04","slug":"massachusetts-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/massachusetts-state-house\/","title":{"rendered":"[Really] Private Systems: Massachusetts State House"},"content":{"rendered":"

These sets of pictures were taken in 2009 at the Massachusetts State House. The government of Commonwealth of Massachusetts have been long time Avaya users dating back to the late 1980s.\u00a0 If you are a native to that state, you should be proud that your tax dollars were at work from upgrading to the latest and greatest office telephones. However, as of these exposures, I would highly assume they are still use the 6400 series telephones.<\/p>\n

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An Avaya 6424 and a 6408 Digital telephone at the House Chambers of the Massachusetts State House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I do not have any clue what is in the backend of the Boston area telephone network. Its a Definity based system but that’s all I know. I don’t know how many nodes, how many unique PBX systems that are located throughout the Boston area. Unlike the state that borders far west,\u00a0 the Commonwealth is often tight lipped about telling anyone anything about the government. I do know Massachusetts has a headcount of maybe just north of 50,000 employees – yeah that’s a lot for a government sector.<\/p>\n

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A lady making a phone call on ether a 7405 or a 7434 terminal with a florescent screen adjunct in 1991. From YouTube user: MSTS1<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another unknown is how their dialing plan works. I remember going into one of the elevators was a 7 digit telephone number to reach the campus security. The\u00a0 Commonwealth does not publish a government directory, nor do they have an online directory. Nor their western counterpart\u00a0 publishes even a\u00a0 guide to learn their telephones. They are very secretive in that state, and there is no such thing as public knowledge (don’t say its a security issue – that’s an excuse!)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Some pictures taken in 2010 when I visited there in October with some better quality of images of their super-private of private systems.<\/p>\n

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Another shot of the press office with very dated key telephones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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That’s all for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These sets of pictures were taken in 2009 at the Massachusetts State House. The government of Commonwealth of Massachusetts have been long time Avaya users dating back to the late 1980s.\u00a0 If you are a native to that state, you… <\/p>\n

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