POTD: Polycom VVX 310 SIP Telephone

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This is a revised post of the VVX SIP sets I got from the street of a business that relocated in fall of 2016. I was able to tell that they were using Comcast’s SIP services by looking at the config screens. Of which, I do not prefer if I wanted to use a cloud phone system with less than 20 phones. Security wise, it scares me. I recently acquired some SIP phones for work purposes, and they came from second hand complete with a Ring Central handle and password. The seller is lucky I wouldn’t do anything illegal like toll fraud. I always recommend SIP Proxy services when possible. SIP Proxies are basically the modern day “splitter” since VOIP is all software base. Even Free and Open Source Software can do this for free on existing store-bought routers.

Complete with the 6 call appearances, line appearances, but only up to 6! and 4 softkeys that can only go up to 4 features! Also a Gigabit connectivity is great if you want speed without sacrificing using Fast Ethernet.

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POTD: Avaya 9650 IP Deskphone

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This little fancy gadget is the 9650 IP Deskphone from Avaya. Introduced in 2006, to replace the 6 year old 4600 Series; these phones were initially thought of as clones to Cisco given some of the similarities. This was also Avaya’s first sets to move away from the simple to use user interface, to the flip phone like functionality (to change ringers, you do not press Conference when idling, and most one touch features doubled or doubled in a half.) Sadly the legacy AT&T, then Lucent to become Avaya’s simple, telephone line focused digital or IP sets were never applauded. (This is why I rave this company I used to kinda favor.)

In 2008, similar paper-desi sets came along as the 1600 Series, and digital sets 9500 and 9400 series and 1400 series for paper desis. In the Avaya world, people like to choose to express how they want to assign their buttons. In color and their own words. Some sets that use screens instead do not allow the systems administrator to use their own form of assigning buttons. If you want to put blame, blame the customer, but remember the customer is the one whose right, not the vendor at least in traditional American business norms.

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POTD: Aastra 390 PowerTouch

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Via Joe the UCX Guy from 2016, if memory serves me.

It’s alive and well. This is an older telset from October 22nd, 2002. Private label from Shoreline Communications that would become ShoreTel that in full circle merged with Mitel just over a year ago whom of which also acquired Aastra a few years back.

Go ahead and make your head spin as I still can’t get over how Polycom and Plantronics tied the knot and a distro company buying the source code (Sagnoma/Free PBX> Digium/Asterisk.) These were just within year to date mergers.

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POTD – Polycom 3xx – Londonderry, NH Fire Department – Central Station

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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?

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POTD: Meridian M2006 Digital set

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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

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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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POTD: Ugly Avaya Blue Conference set – Southern New Hampshire University

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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.)

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