Us Acre Division Cherry Phones

(Updated: March 7, 2017)

On Feb 1st, senator John Kerry became the novel United States of America Secretary of State, succeeding Hillary Clinton, who held this business office since Jan 2009. John Kerry is only 2 weeks inwards office, but nosotros already receive got a squeamish flick of him inwards his novel office:

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks past times telephone with
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from his Inner Office
at the Department of State, Feb 5, 2013.
(State Department photo)

This flick is taken inwards the too then called inner or individual office, which is adjacent to the bigger ceremonial office, where the secretarial assistant of state is nearly ofttimes seen, receiving too talking to his guests. The smaller individual business office is used for the actual work, too thence that's likewise where the phones are (the United States of America president likewise has a rarely seen individual office, adjacent to the ceremonial Oval Office).

On the desk nosotros run into a Cisco 7975 unified IP phone amongst a 7916 expansion module. With a unopen await nosotros tin run into that the telephone has a yellowish faceplate, instead of the criterion argent one, which indicates that it's component division of the new, highly secure Executive Voice over Secure IP-network. This network connects the president amongst all major determination makers.

The telephone which secretarial assistant Kerry is using inwards the picture, is a high goal Avaya/Lucent 6424D telephone set, which is component division of the internal State Department telephone network. This telephone tin likewise last seen inwards many pictures of the ceremonial office. Finally, nosotros run into a actually large videoteleconferencing (VTC) concealment amongst photographic television camera on top.

Updates:

From the FBI investigations inwards the instance of onetime secretarial assistant of state Hillary Clinton using a individual e-mail server for regime business, nosotros learn that the secretarial assistant of state's conform of offices on the seventh flooring of the State Department building, known every bit "Mahogany Row", is secured every bit a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
Within that area, the bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) has a post called Post 1, where secretarial assistant Clinton's BlackBerry was kept inwards a desk drawer. State Department personnel was non allowed to choose their mobile devices into Post 1 or the SCIF. Clinton had no figurer inwards her office, but she used to cheque her e-mail using a personal BlackBerry or a personal iPad on the building's eighth flooring balcony exterior the SCIF.
SCIF's were likewise created inwards Clinton's Whitehaven residence inwards Washington, D.C. too her habitation inwards Chappaqua, NY, but both rooms were non ever secured, amongst doors left opened upwardly too assistants bringing their personal laptops inside.

It was likewise reported that secretarial assistant Clinton preferred to read documents on newspaper rather than on a screen, too then e-mails too other files were ofttimes printed out too provided to her either at her business office or home, where they were delivered inwards a diplomatic pouch past times a safety agent.
However, her deputy primary of staff Huma Abedin, similar many State Department officials, institute the regime networks to last cumbersome, making printing documents at that spot troubling. As a result, she sometimes transferred e-mails from her unclassified State Department line of piece of occupation organisation human relationship to either her Yahoo account, or her line of piece of occupation organisation human relationship on Clinton’s individual server, too printed the e-mails from there.

After Donald Trump became president of the U.S.A. inwards Jan 2017, rooms on Mahogany Row were rebuilt to create an "office infinite for a novel squad too a novel concept of how State’s nervus middle would function" - a concept that wasn't shared amongst nearly State Department people though.

It seems the Cisco telephone too the VTC-screen are installed quite recently, because when onetime secretarial assistant of state Hillary Clinton showed her inner business office inwards May 2010, at that spot was at to the lowest degree i other type of phone, which was at that spot already when Madeleine Albright held this office:

Video however of onetime Secretary of State Hillary Clinton showing her
individual business office to Scott Pelley of the CBS exhibit lx Minutes.
(click to scout the video!)

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright inwards her individual office
(Date unknown)

In both these pictures, nosotros run into a large white Integrated Services Telephone (IST) at the lower correct corner of the bookshelfs. This futuristic looking telephone was designed past times Electrospace Systems Inc. too afterward on produced past times Raytheon. It was component division of the Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN), which is the main secure telephone network of the United States of America military.

As nosotros saw inwards an earlier posting, the president had a newer version of this phone, the IST-2, on his desk inwards the Oval Office. In 2011 that telephone was likewise replaced past times a Cisco 7975 IP phone, only similar the i which is forthwith at the desk of the secretarial assistant of state. So it looks similar these novel IP phones of the exceed underground executive VoIP network are gradually replacing the too then called cerise phones of the DRSN, which is however an old fashioned switched telephone network.

The phones of the Defense Red Switch Network are sometimes called "red phones", because inwards the sixties too seventies, the telephone sets connected to predecessors of this network were ofttimes red. H5N1 squeamish illustration of such an early on solar daytime cerise telephone is the i inwards this picture:

This is a really mutual telephone without rotary dial, made past times ITT. Phones similar this are however available today, for illustration for hotlines or emergency lines of whatever kind. This telephone was likely used for a predecessor of the DRSN, similar the Automatic Secure Voice Communications Network (AUTOSEVOCOM). This is indicated past times the label, which says: "Up to TOP SECRET Information may last processed on this system" amongst adjacent to it, the eagle from the seal of the United Stated too the words "Bureau of Diplomatic Security":

The Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) is an means of the State Department, which is responsible for protecting United States of America embassies too diplomatic personnel too securing critical data systems, similar for illustration the telephone networks.

Therefore, the cerise telephone inwards the flick was likely used for a secure telephone connective at i of the major embassies, at the State Department operations center, or perhaps fifty-fifty inwards the business office of the secretarial assistant of state of that time!



Links
- 1916-2016: History of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security of the U.S.A. Department of State
- Washington Examiner: 21 things nosotros learned from the FBI notes on Clinton's emails