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The Phones of the New NATO Secretary General
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In the photo above we see that Secretary General Rutte has one phone in front of him, but the picture below shows that there are two additional telephone sets at the right side of the computer screen as well: A reader of this weblog identified this device as a "5 Position ABCDE Switch" made by Black Box, an Indian-American company that provides a range of computer network products. In this case it's most likely used for accessing computer networks with different security classifications from a single Keyboard, Video and Mouse set, which is why it's usually called a KVM-switch.
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