{"id":1183,"date":"2012-07-23T10:51:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2014-11-07T08:06:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T21:06:51","slug":"paddington-telephone-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/paddington-telephone-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddington Telephone Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Kevin O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p>Attached is a bit of Trivia from Wiki for you from the past about a second life for Australia\u2019s first Intercontinental Telephone Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>After OTC installed &amp; commissioned the Ericsson ARM, the British Post Office purchased the Paddo exchange from OTC. It was installed in Wood Street, London and was named the \u201cWood Street Relief unit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I visited Wood Street in 1971 and asked if I could see the old Paddo exchange. There it was the same switch I used\u00a0 to work on in Sydney now \u201cclacking\u201d away on Atlantic circuits. To my surprise they had left the Australian labels on the test desk\/rack key switches. I asked one of the guys working there at the time did he know the meaning of JTA and JFA.<\/p>\n<p>He said he did not know what the letters stood for but he just\u00a0 knew them as one way outgoing\/ incoming junctions.<\/p>\n<p>We all had a chuckle after I informed them that the abbreviations stood for Junction from Australia <strong>JFA<\/strong> and junction to Australia <strong>JTA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if they ever changed the labels to Junction from\/to England??? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(JFE\u2019s and JTE\u2019s)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Paddington-Intercontinental-Exchange.doc\">Paddington Intercontinental Exchange<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Kevin O&#8217;Brien Attached is a bit of Trivia from Wiki for you from the past about a second life for Australia\u2019s first Intercontinental Telephone Exchange. After OTC installed &amp; commissioned the Ericsson ARM, the British Post Office purchased the Paddo exchange from OTC. It was installed in Wood Street, London and was named the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMOfU-j5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}