The cabinet just inside the door is a radio repeater, specifically a Motorola Micor. The top is a test/metering panel, followed by an amplifier, and then the repeater itself. Below that is the power supply, and what appears to be 3 battery racks. The sticker on the repeater says Fire 1 - 33.70 (Mhz). Lowband VHF for a fire department near Pittsburgh back in the day. All of the extra grounds on basically anything metal are part of the Motorola R56 specifications for RF sites.

Ice trick is awesome. Never thought about that

this is a super cool idea for a quick pop site nicely done. im just starting my own networks have been planning for years now but finally the stars are aligning.

That's a good purchase there man, reusing existing housing, very cool..also the ice procedure ,I've learnt something, pretty innovative

At some point around the late 90s and early 2000s, the LECs started using a SDSL type of signal to carry a T1 encapsulated within it, instead of using 2 pairs with lots of repeaters for the old school late 60s style of T1 as a layer 1 all the way across the line to the Z location. So that is why those circuit packs always call their upstream side DSL.

I'm sorry to report all the equipment is headed to the scrap yard.

Those Adtran H2TUR cards are for 2 wire T1 connections; the R-Card is on the Customer side and the C-Card is on the Central office side. So, in this application, the C-Card is probably at a main office or upstream carrier facility, then this facility would be acting as the customer premise. I'm guessing this is taking in multiple T1 connections, then aggregating them into one or two data connections for the facility (to use or distribute) or maybe breaking them out to voice lines - hard to tell just from this picture. H2 has longer range ability as far as span goes, but lacks the redundancy of H4, hence why you will see multiple H2 spans in their application (if the customer can afford it).

The Cellpack is basically a bunch of T1 Smartjacks. The HTUR cards interface with the OSP side of incoming T1, and the RJ45 jacks on the main board would go out to your routers or CPE gear.

Long Lines was never a part of Verizon. Verizon was formed from an acquisition of GTE by Bell Atlantic. Long Lines was the department of the legacy AT&T that was responsible for the domestic and international long distance services of AT&T. The phone is a Trim Line phone, not Princess.

To get all the goodies that came with it and front cover the panels. Most of the work is already done for you. Then the multiple t1 stuff. It is like fully loaded.

Well there is one thing I recognize: The Dirak 1333 key that comes with at least 50% of all no-name server racks

We co-locate Public Safety equipment in an AT&T shelter which seems like a two of those put together. It too has an insane amount of bonding, including the door. This facility was built between ~2005-2007, so I'd venture to guess this was normal. I know a lot of new builds will just pour a concrete pad and store all the equipment outside, and I believe in some instances they will mount everything on the tower if it will support the load.

The DSL (DS1) unit is a T1 system. Looks like a T1 multiplexer of some sort used for internal networking within verizon. Probably for various internal company customers within the facility (cellular backhaul, telephone, security, ethernet/corporate data)

Looks to be in pretty good shape, a light scrub with some bleach and she is brand new.

Anything around an RF tower must be grounded if not for electricity resonated RF frequency is the goal .anything loose ,or ungrounded makes for a bad day for the RF technician. Not so much a shock hazardous but data noise.

You can bond two 768kbps SDSL into a T1 circuit.

This is very cool, love to see old telecom

Very nice they preserved this istead of demolish so it can be reused. How do you plan to feed this, underground or aerial ?

Judging by the age, they were probably supplying T1 service instead of DSL. You pointed to a bonding ground in an installation attached to a giant lightning rod. and called it Verizon nonsense. Do you even understand electricity?

pretty sure that is not a ups, I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure that is an amplifier for the tower.

Great that it's being re-used! I hope someone lifts that in a few decades and wonders how the hell ice bags got under there

NICE!! this is exciting !

Multiple T1s / NIUs to UMTS (cellular gear) looks like

Jesus H Christ we get it, ITS ICE!

Those are not “DSL” cards, they are T1s. Before fiber all the tower sites used T1 backhaul, in this case 6 T1 lines.

this seems fun man, I want to work for ya :p

you inherit all their old crap but have to replace everything - quite a bit of time just to re outfit, time and money, but it is a long term investment

I would totally turn this into a colocation for my servers.

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