. Bell telephone magazine . SAC underground command post, cramm with special communications equipmer can alert world-wide air striking fore Alaska earthquake in 1964 when regulgcircuits to that state were clogged bcalls from worried relatives. The full-scale network had been orignally scheduled to go into operation lasyear, but the General Services Administration urged that it be readied a yeaearlier than planned. Throwing its ohtime schedule away, the Bell System redoubled its efforts and launched the network in July, 1964. FTS has been expanding at an unprecedented rate ever since. The origi
. Bell telephone magazine . SAC underground command post, cramm with special communications equipmer can alert world-wide air striking fore Alaska earthquake in 1964 when regulgcircuits to that state were clogged bcalls from worried relatives. The full-scale network had been orignally scheduled to go into operation lasyear, but the General Services Administration urged that it be readied a yeaearlier than planned. Throwing its ohtime schedule away, the Bell System redoubled its efforts and launched the network in July, 1964. FTS has been expanding at an unprecedented rate ever since. The origins5,000 circuits will soon be tripled. Andinstead of handling 13 million calls .-year, as forecast, FTS is handling threiand a half times as many. Washingtons awareness of the telephone as a quick, economic and efficienway to conduct business has been greatlysharpened by the addition of FTS. A;for government employees, they hav(welcomed the new system despite theoccasional busys on the FTS line. Foi 26. On Ascension Island—a tiny, remote, rocky dot in the mid-South Atlantic—Western Electric engineers check the massive radar antenna used for tracking ICBMs fired down the Atlantic Missile Range. I one thing, government workers are noonger required to get specific authoriza-:ion before making a long distance another, they are now calling moreand writing less. ; As in the military, many agencies havetheir own separate operational networks,^n example is the National Aeronauticsmd Space Administrations 829,950-mile manned space flight net-iNork. This vast tracking system is con-rolled through the Bell System-designed3CAMA II console at the GoddardSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Gemini Launch Data System(GLDS), created for the Gemini flights,is part of NASCOM. This radio andoable complex of data, television, tele-phone and teletypewriter circuits com-, arising GLDS funnels critical informa-tion on Gemni and Apollo missions fromiCape Kermedy in Florida t
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