Abandon ATF / law enforcement network closet.

Found this network room rather interesting. One of my customers moved into an office where the ATF and other government law enforcement agencies once occupied. The racks and most of the network equipment was ripped out, but there was still some T1 boxes and various wiring that was labeled with different law enforcement agencies.

This network room is now the network room for my customer. Any markings or labeling from any law enforcement agency was left there from when those agencies occupied this office space. To the best of my knowledge there is nothing in these images that would compromise any investigations these agencies may have had, or will have in the past or future. I believe that since this is how the office was left after they moved out from this office, that they have taken all precautions to safeguard any sensitive information, and I believe that posting these images are within my legal rights.

Bla, bla, bla, normally I only post images of networks that I have worked on, but I found this rather interesting. How often do you get to work in a network that was previously used for law enforcement. I apologize for my paranoid disclaimer above, but would rather be cautious than anything else. 

I did not remove anything from this location, nor are there any other images of this network that are not posted below.

re-registered my domain name

The domain name bill was overlooked and past due, so the site was down unless you reached it via nyphonejacks.blogspot.com all is good now at least for the next year.

Compare over 70 different phone systems

I just received an email from one of the mailing lists that I am on. This website has compiled an excel spreadsheet to compare the features of over 70 different phone systems. If you are in the market for a phone system this may be a decent starting point, I just gave it a quick once over so I can not guarantee the accuracy of the information contained in, nor did i spend much time to determine if it tried steer your purchase towards something that the website is selling, but nonetheless I felt that I should share it with my readers. It can be viewed here: http://www.solpub.com/Offers/ResourceRegInput.aspx?nuosid=110456748&jid=0&spoid=1319 however you will be required to provide contact information such as your email address to obtain a link to the actual file.

doorphone install

Inside wall where wire was snaked for door phone.

As shown in a previous post HERE, I made a small of a hole as possible to snake the wires. First I drilled thru the brick into the building where I wanted to mount the door phone. Then I reamed the hole in the sheet rock enough to send my snake up to the drop ceiling to fish the wire behind the walls.

Door phone installed.

Once the wiring was in place I was able to mount the door phone.

Keypad installed.

 I also had to install a keypad for an interior door. The door was not wired for an electronic door latch so I drilled into the door frame, and made a small hole in the wall to fish the wire from the opening made for the keypad to the door latch.

ATA and relay installed.

As the network room is located in the basement, I just installed the relay and power for the door phone and latches in the office. The wiring going to the door phone and keypad was snaked down the wall behind the relay.