(Updated: Dec 9, 2017)
On the quaternary Th of November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day in addition to ane of the traditions is that the United States of America president addresses members of the armed forces services that are deployed abroad.
President Trump did then for the start fourth dimension terminal Thursday, speaking to the 5 branches of the United States of America armed forces past times video teleconference from his residence Mar-a-Lago inwards Florida.
The press photos released for this occasion offering a clear stance of the communications equipment that is used past times the president when existence exterior the White House or travelling.
President Trump addresses the armed forces from Mar-a-Lago, Nov 23, 2017
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Video teleconferencing
The large covert for video teleconferencing (VTC) is the Cisco TelePresence System EX90 amongst high-definition video covert in addition to camera. The device has been modified for TEMPEST protection past times CIS Secure Computing: nosotros tin consider that the covert has an additional metallic encasing amongst silverish labels to foreclose in addition to discovery tampering. The VTC arrangement includes a smaller touchscreen device which is used to command the video teleconference calls in addition to tin live seen correct inwards front end of the large screen.
During the videoconference, Trump was connected to members of the armed forces services at oversea bases inwards Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, the USS Monterey at sea, in addition to the United States of America Coast Guard vessel Wrangell inwards Kuwait. Accordingly, the video covert was divided into vi segments, amongst the President Of The United States of America (POTUS) himself inwards the lower middle section, surrounded past times a crimson border. He likewise has a regime annotation that says who's who:
President Trump addresses the armed forces from Mar-a-Lago, Nov 23, 2017
On the telephone displays, the names associated amongst the straight trouble buttons were blacked out
(White House Photo/Shealah Craighead - click to enlarge)
Secure telephones
On both sides of the video teleconference screen, at that spot are telephone sets which tin live recognized equally mutual Top Secret/SCI.
This color shows that these phones are utilisation of the highly secure Executive Voice over Secure IP-network, which connects the United States of America president amongst all major determination makers, similar the secretaries of State, Defense in addition to Homeland Security equally good equally the Director of National Intelligence. The phones themselves convey no encryption capability - they are connected to a cardinal network encryptor, in all likelihood from General Dynamics' TACLANE familiy.
Also clearly visible is that these Cisco IP phones convey a custom molded plastic housing, which provides TEMPEST protection against the leaking of electromagnetic emanations, simply likewise includes 2 1 Gigabit SC Fiber ports then the telephone tin live used inwards a fiber-optic network. These phones likewise come across Telephone Security Group (TSG) standards to brand certain that they cannot past times whatsoever agency live caused to create or transmit good when the handset is on-hook.
The information flow of the video teleconference seems to live routed through the telephone on the left, which has no handset in addition to has the crimson "microphone mute" lite on. As tin live seen inwards a Cisco 8841 IP phone, which is modified past times used inwards the White House.
President Trump inwards a telephone phone telephone amongst FEMA Director Brock Long regarding
Hurricane Maria's touching on on Puerto Rico, September 20, 2017
Note the bulletproof drinking glass plates inwards front end of the windows
(White House Photo/Shealah Craighead - click to enlarge)
When one-time president Obama was on vacation, the same "yellow" Cisco phones were installed, although without the fiber-optic connections in addition to the TEMPEST-proof encasing:
President Obama talking amongst his national safety advisor Susan Rice following
unusual leader telephone calls at Martha's Vineyard, August 11, 2014
(White House Photo - click to enlarge)
When Obama was staying inwards to a greater extent than hostile environments, these phones for the presidential telephone network were equipped amongst the additional safety features nosotros already saw inwards the Trump pictures:
President Obama talks on the telephone amongst Russian president Putin piece inwards Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, amongst John Kerry in addition to Susan Rice listening in, March 28, 2014
(White House Photo/Pete Souza - click to enlarge)
Update:
During Trump's 2nd Thanksgiving address inwards Nov 2018 it appeared that the Cisco 7975 IP telephone for secure calls had been replaced past times a novel modified Cisco IP telephone 8841, see: A novel secure telephone for exterior the White House
No Mar-a-Lago SCIF?
For the Thanksgiving photograph op, the communications equipment was ready inwards the large living room of the Mar-a-Lago estate, unopen to probable to supply a grand, if non to say imperial decor for the press photos, simply it may likewise dot the absence of a dedicated secure communications room. At to the lowest degree it seems to exhibit that the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) considers Trump's opor-garai residence less secure than Obama's.
President Trump addresses the armed forces from Mar-a-Lago, Nov 23, 2017
(photo: Greg Lovett/The Palm Beach Post - click to enlarge)
Ever since Trump started using Mar-a-Lago regularly equally his "Winter White House", at that spot was speculation whether a Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) tin live stored, processed, viewed and/or discussed without existence intercepted from the outside.
In Apr of this year, the White House press secretarial assistant mysterious devices seen inwards that photograph were discussed hither earlier.
Links in addition to sources
- ShallowNation.com: [Video & Transcript] President Donald Trump Thanksgiving Message to the Military via Video Teleconference
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