Obama On Vacation

In the previous post nosotros saw the cool phones the American president uses inwards his Oval Office. This fourth dimension nosotros accept a await at the telephone equipment he uses when he is on vacation, because "Presidents don't teach vacations, they only teach a alter of scenery." equally a one-time president in 1 lawsuit said.

For this role nosotros conduct maintain 2 overnice pictures from the opor-garai of president Obama from August eighteen to August 29, 2011 on the Blue Heron Farm inwards Chilmark on the isle of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

In the get-go motion painting nosotros run into president Barack Obama, reflected inwards a mirror, conducting a conference telephone telephone on the province of affairs inwards Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya alongside his national safety staff. Also participating is John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security too Counterterrorism, who sits on the right:

President Barack Obama too his assistant John Brennan inwards a conference call. August 22, 2011
Note how the telephone too ability cables are taped onto the table
(White House photograph yesteryear Pete Souza - click for a bigger version)

On the tabular array nosotros run into 2 sets of the Secure Terminal Equipment (STE), made yesteryear L3 Communications. This is a telephone capable of making secured calls upward to the grade of Top Secret. The STE is the successor of the legendary STU-III organisation too is used for secure end-to-end communications throughout the authorities too the armed forces of the US. For the President Of The USA (POTUS), these phones are used when he is travelling or staying somewhere exterior the White House.

In the minute motion painting nosotros run into Obama monitoring Hurricane Irene alongside John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security too Counterterrorism (in calorie-free bluish shirt) too another officials. They are waiting for a conference call on the hurricane alongside affected governors too mayors:

Obama monitoring Hurricane Irene alongside his assistant John Brennan
too another officials. August 26, 2011
(White House photograph yesteryear Pete Souza - click for a bigger version)

This motion painting shows the same tabular array equally inwards the previous one, but alongside dissimilar chairs too dissimilar phones. There are 2 telephone sets on each side of the table: an regular white Panasonic KX-TS108W percentage phone, too a nighttime greyish Cisco 7975G Unified IP Phone.

The white telephone sets are virtually probable percentage of the somebody branch telephone commutation (PBX) of the opor-garai identify too hence conduct maintain no exceptional safety features. As nosotros tin move run into inwards this picture, the conference telephone telephone is made using these white phones.

The Cisco phones are to a greater extent than interesting, because they belong to the highly secure Executive Voice over Secure IP (VoSIP) telephone network, which was If Phones Ring, Obama Is Here, With Cell Power