Last Thursday, Americans celebrated Thanksgiving as well as traditionally the president addressed members of the armed forces services that are deployed abroad. For Donald Trump this was the instant fourth dimension during his presidency.
The video footage as well as photos of that address too showed something that is i of the topics of this weblog: a novel telephone used for exceed flat telecommunication of the president of the United States:
President Trump speaks to members of the armed forces over the phone
from his Mar-a-Lago resort inward Palm Beach. Nov 22, 2018.
(photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images - click to enlarge)
The telephone laid that president Trump used for his conference telephone call back tin hold upwardly recognized every bit a Cisco IP Phone 8841, simply amongst some distinctive modifications.
Top Secret
The kickoff i is that is has a brilliant yellowish bezel around the high-resolution color display, piece criterion phones bring a dark or a silvery one. As yellowish is the color code for data classified Top Secret/Sensitive Comparmented Information (TS/SCI), the bezel shows that this telephone tin hold upwardly used for calls at the highest level.
This telephone is component division of the Executive Voice over Secure IP-network, which connects the US president amongst all major determination makers, similar the secretaries of State, Defense as well as Homeland Security every bit good every bit the Director of National Intelligence. The phones themselves bring no encryption capability - they are connected to a fundamental network encryptor, likely from General Dynamics' TACLANE familiy.
Fiber network
The instant modification is that the device tin hold upwardly lead connected to a local fiber oculus network, instead of the park connexion to a copper cable telephone organisation through an RJ-14 plug. Because signals traveling over copper cables drive electromagnetic emanations ("TEMPEST"), they are easier to intercept than when there's a fiber oculus network.
The novel telephone was modified past times CIS Secure Computing, Inc., which is a pocket-sized fellowship that provides additional safety functions for commercial-of-the-shelf communications equipment. On its website it advertises the Cisco 8841 Fiber Enabled VoIP Phone as well as inward the photograph below the company's logo tin hold upwardly recognized on the dorsum side of the device:
President Trump amongst the novel Cisco IP telephone seen from the dorsum side. Nov 22, 2018.
(photo: AP/Susan Walsh - click to enlarge)
It's non known when just this novel telephone was installed, simply it must bring been somewhere afterwards Trump's kickoff Thanksgiving address final year. Then nosotros withal saw the erstwhile telephone for highly secure calls. This was a mutual Cisco 7975 Unified IP phone, which was too modified past times CIS Secure Computing, providing it amongst TEMPEST protection as well as 2 1 Gigabit SC Fiber ports.
Left: the erstwhile Cisco 7975 IP Phones inward 2017; right: the novel Cisco IP Phone 8841 inward 2018
(click to enlarge)
White House
In the Oval Office, the erstwhile Cisco 7975 for the classified network had already been replaced past times a Cisco IP Phone from the novel 8800-series past times September 2017. However, this telephone has no additional safety functions (like a fiber oculus connexion or on-hook disconnection of the handset) nor the yellowish bezel.
The Cisco 7975 IP phones for secure calls were introduced inward 2007 every bit component division of a full general upgrade of the White House communications systems nether president George W. Bush. Meanwhile this type of Cisco telephones is most xv years old, as well as thus the replacement may non come upwardly every bit a surprise.
It seems that amongst the modified Cisco IP Phone 8841 all the erstwhile telephone sets for secure as well as non-secure calls, used both within as well as exterior the White House, bring instantly been replaced past times novel devices from Cisco's 8800-series.
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