{"id":2790,"date":"2017-04-13T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:31:09","slug":"avaya-8434-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/avaya-8434-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Avaya 8434 Birthday Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your humble curator turned 30 last month. As a result of the big deal, I had requested to have a special birthday cake. This year, I wanted something to resemble a office telephone. I had turned 25 at the time when the Cake Boss had built for Avaya, an actual cake casing of their IP Office 500 Control Unit and one of the 16 or 9600 sets. The phones and control unit really worked with all the cake covering it.<\/p>\n

Mine was a little simple (or complex)<\/p>\n

So my mother got a special order at Frederick’s Pastries <\/a>(a well known baker\u00a0North of Boston\/Suburban NH), of a two layer, gold cake, with strawberry filling, with, white frosting mimicking the “Misty Cream” set color, and the various elements the signature telset<\/a>. You’ll also notice the side where they made the groove edges of the set. They got the Avaya logo right on too. The handset resembles the 9400 Series DCP terminals (the ones sold during the same time as the 8400 for non domestic customers that looked kinda like 6400s, some have made its away towards America in third hand markets.) \u00a0They never made such thing before and they were kinda nervous at first. My mother never ordered a special order cake from scratch.<\/p>\n

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