In Apr final year, the States president Obama told about fundraisers that he was Situation Room completely renovated, providing it amongst state-of-the-art communications facilities. Since hence the existent Situation Room has all the phones in addition to videoscreens in addition to other stuff, which was earlier entirely seen inwards movies.
Also, when Obama took over the business office inwards Jan 2009, he flora quite a cool telephone on the presidential desk inwards the Oval Office: an Integrated Services Telephone 2, or IST-2. This is a hence called ruby-red telephone (I'll explicate that term inwards a after weblog post) capable of making both secure in addition to non-secure calls from i unmarried instrument:
Not a cool phone? An IST-2 telephone on Obama's desk, March 29, 2009
(White House photograph yesteryear Pete Souza)
The IST-2 was installed inwards the White House inwards 2007. It's a telephone especially designed for the the States Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN), which connects the president in addition to the Pentagon amongst all major military machine ascendence centers. These novel phones were component of an upgrade of the communications system, which became necessary after about serious communication problems occured during the 9/11 attacks.
Therefore, the problems caused yesteryear outdated equipment should accept been solved nether president Bush. This would move out zip to complain nearly for Obama anymore.
But there's an other interesting fact. Only a few weeks earlier Obama made his aforementioned remarks inwards Apr 2011, the rather rare IST-phone had simply been replaced yesteryear ii to a greater extent than ordinary sets:
The Cisco 7975 in addition to the Lucent 8520 on Obama's desk, July 31, 2011
Also on the desk appears to last the iPad Obama got from Steve Jobs inwards May 2011
(White House photograph yesteryear Pete Souza)
Now nosotros run into a Cisco 7975G Unified IP Phone (with expansion module 7916) behind a Avaya/Lucent 8520T on Obama's desk. This Lucent telephone is from the most widely used describe of piece of work organisation telephone serial worldwide, but is dating dorsum to the mid-nineties. The Cisco 7975G is a VoIP (Voice over IP) telephone, in addition to equally such also i of the most widely used.
Both are high-end multiline models, amongst many functions in addition to large displays, amongst the Cisco i fifty-fifty having a total color touchscreen. This telephone is also "cool", non because of having the military machine degree specifications or the exclusiveness similar the IST-2, but because the telephone (and its ringtone inwards particular) became an almost iconic item from the highly pop tv-series 24:
A Cisco 7970 IP Phone used inwards the CTU operations view inwards the tv-series 24
(screen cap yesteryear www.24tv.de)
This series, which was broadcasted betwixt 2001 in addition to 2010, shaped people's imagination of the presidency in addition to was inwards many ways a forerunner of reality. For event at that topographic point was a pop dark president (David Palmer) years earlier Obama was elected, in addition to much of the fancy communications equipment from the series, similar video teleconferencing, was implemented inwards the existent White House Situation Room inwards 2007. And straight off the existent president also has the same cool Cisco telephone equally the heroes used inwards the tv-series.
So, equally nosotros accept seen, Obama didn't genuinely tell the truth. The storey he told the fundraisers was truthful during the get-go of the Bush administration, but non during his. Obama genuinely has about quite cool phones at his disposal, but perhaps the entirely affair is that he simply doesn't realize that ;-)
Update:
H5N1 smashing painting of the phones Obama uses inwards the Oval Office was released on Dec 16, 2014, when he made a call, using the non-secure telephone, to president Raúl Castro of Cuba:
President Obama calling president Raúl Castro of Cuba, Dec 16, 2014
Also honor the especially secured Blackberry at his correct hand
(White House Photo yesteryear Pete Souza - Click to enlarge)
Links
- Report on CBS News: Obama laments lack of "cool phones" at the White House
- About the renovation of the White House Situation Room
- Pictures of to a greater extent than "Obama Phones" at Cryptome.org
- Dutch article nearly Obama's gadgets at ZDNet.nl
- Extensive High German fanpage of the 24-series
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