Minggu, 30 Desember 2018

Trump's Telephones Inward The Treaty Room



Under the presidency of Donald Trump, the White House became much less transparant than nether previous administrations: almost data has been stripped off the White House website together with hardly whatever photos from behind the scenes are published. Therefore nosotros run across real piffling of how the White House rooms together with West Wing offices are currently used.

But a novel photo, released past times the president's social media manager a few days ago, directly shows a glimpse of the so-called Treaty Room, inwards which president Trump together with vice-president Pence received an update telephone recollect on the emergency preparedness concerning the touching on of Hurricane Florence:



Vice-president Pence together with president Trump inwards the Treaty Room, September 15, 2018
(White House photograph - click to enlarge)



The Treaty Room

The Treaty Room is on the minute flooring of the primary edifice of the White House, the residential mansion, which includes both the ceremonial rooms together with the mortal quarters of the president. The room is named after the peace treaty betwixt the USA together with Spain, which was signed hither on August 12, 1898, ending the Spanish-American War. The signing is depicted inwards the large icon past times Theobald Chartran.

Previous presidents used the Treaty Room equally their mortal report where they could run during eve hours, equally it is on the same flooring equally their mortal rooms. The pic below shows president Obama working behind a large table, which president Trump turned into the seat it had nether George W. Bush, along the wall on the due west side. Given how empty the tabular array together with the credenza are, it seems that Trump doesn't role the room frequently.



President Obama inwards his mortal report inwards the Treaty Room of the White House. We run across ii black
Avaya/Lucent 8410 phones, a reckoner covert together with an HP Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation printer. March 2009.
(Callie Shell/Aurora Photos - click to enlarge)


Telephone equipment

In the recent photograph amongst vice-president Pence en president Trump nosotros run across that on the large tabular array inwards the Treaty Room in that location are the next 3 telephone sets:
- Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Cisco 8851 IP telephone (with a box on the back) for non-secure calls
- Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Cisco 8851 IP telephone for secure calls
- An IST-2 crimson phone


The ii Cisco phones are the same ones equally on the president's desk inwards the Oval Office, where they gradually replaced the older Cisco telephones.



Behind the ii Ciscos there's a large grayness telephone that tin hold upwards recognized equally an Integrated Services Telephone version 2 or IST-2, a device that was designed past times Raytheon together with later on manufactured past times Telecore, Inc.

This IST is a together with then called "red phone", which agency that it's connected to the Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN). This is the primary secure telephone network for military machine command together with command communications together with connects all mayor United States of America command centers together with many other military machine facilities.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 exceptional characteristic of the IST-2 is that i tin brand both secure together with non-secure calls through this i unmarried device. The telephone itself has no encryption capability: whatever secure calls are encrypted inwards mass earlier leaving the secure building, enclave or compound.

As part of a military machine telephone network, the IST-2 likewise has the distinctive 4 crimson buttons which are used to choose the 4 levels of a organisation called Multilevel Precedence together with Preemption (MLPP). This allows to brand telephone calls that larn precedence over ones amongst a lower priority.



It's non actually clear why there's an IST-2 inwards the Treaty Room together with (at to the lowest degree visibly) non inwards the Oval Office. The ii Cisco IP phones should hold upwards sufficient for whatever secure or non-secure telephone calls, simply it is possible that for connecting to military machine commanders it is yet easier to role the IST-2 amongst its many straight business buttons.


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