NSA/CIA House in Dallas?

[kae006]

There's a large discussion on arfcom about this house, but since it's in Dallas I figured I'd post it here as well. Property records show it belonged to AT&T. House behind it is pretty interesting too.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/13229-Southview-Ln-Dallas-TX-75240/118222349_zpid/

[Hardcortex]

First I have heard or seen of the house. It's definitely a fortress, front door is a giveaway. I wonder if it had to do with security when Bush lived in Dallas.

[MLank]

Whoa, I always wondered wth that was as I was driving by. It always seemed a bit out of place.

[Bassdeer]

1Bath that's not going to work for me.

[Maddox]

Doesn’t exactly fit in to that neighborhood does it? (Look at Street View)

[PoppinPiggies]

I saw that on Facebook a couple days ago, people were mentioning how the big white room was obviously a large server room with a/c in the floor and the lock boxes at the exterior door was for cellular devices, then it was also a room to remove static from yourself.

[Stick bow]

They will be knocking on our doors soon for looking into it

[WItoTX]

The street view, LOL

[kae006]

I saw that on Facebook a couple days ago, people were mentioning how the big white room was obviously a large server room with a/c in the floor and the lock boxes at the exterior door was for cellular devices, then it was also a room to remove static from yourself.

Looks like they have a sally port and weapon discharge hole in the plexiglass in the same photo as the lockers though.

[kae006]

The street view, LOL

To make it weirder, here's the street view for the house directly behind it (13352 Blossomheath Ln) - note the hazmat placarding and heavy metal door entry with a locked bar across it.

Also listed as belonging to At&t Comm Of Texas Ltd

[CEO]

If those walls could talk.

[AtTheWall]

An old - early Internet generation, AT&T data center, with one bathroom. It was designed for equipment and a small NOC Team (Network Operating Center) - manning the facility.

Here's a tip, for the non-technical types. When fiber optic networks first came online, supporting higher speeds and performance, as the world slowly crept away from dial-up and analog circuits.


Those first generation FIBER networks, rated for the true wire speeds that fiber can provide had a maximum signal generation distance of 14 MILES.

So seeing that this building has two power grids (a pre-requisite for any modern data center) plus the natural gas powered generator, heavy premise access with a clearing access station at the doorway, and I bet the walls of the home, may be lined with KEVLAR?

The early data center designs of a just emerging internet - with testing on fiber circuits and the then limitations of that technology, coupled with AT&T who previously was SOUTHWESTERN BELL - HEAVY HERE IN TEXAS

Dallas is a demarc - the southern demarc below Chicago, for some of the early generation internet backbones - which were transitioning onto fiber, spanning trade market activity from LA to Chicago to NYC. Fiber ties both coasts together - with a lot of small little fortress type buildings - across the USA in support.

This building is a core data facility, that was put into production, to cover some early gen fiber challenges?

I bet they ran data storage for AT&T and select - premium paying businesses in Dallas (all of them), as they served data out of this early generation data center? AT&T's foray into RACKSPACE - BIG CLOUD PROVIDER - coupled with network carrier Internet access - with fiber as the biggest bang for the technology advancements buck then!

They built this setup to cover fiber and data distance needs - I BET - in the DFW region?

Back in the days where servers had yet to be virtualized. Where a data center had one server - serving one application - with another server - serving another application - with server boxes stacking up like piles and piles of racks.

With server virtualization of today, what once took 1500 boxes to run apps and networks - are now virtualized down to maybe 4 to 5 boxes today, to support that same server sprawl. And having 14 miles to cover high speed fiber, before you had to break out and regenerate that data, onto another 14 mile leg......buildings like this were no object in cost, to progress the advances and business holdings of offering high speed data, in a very lucrative business zone like Dallas, a key network path point in the Internet beginnings.

In today's fiber/digitally connected world, fiber coverage is still a big design concern for many, who are hoping to expand out of large urban areas, into regions less populated - in support of tech firms that do not need large lots of employees onsite. I deal with expansion and growth, with new facilities to cover, here in Texas.

Each plan, the first and foremost question is "DO YOU HAVE FIBER AVAILABLE THERE?"

We had Spectrum & AT&T build out fiber legs, running lines on power poles - aerially to the last leg - to tie things in.

Fiber planning - still has distance limitations - and facilities to support that grid, are evolving every day.

Apparently this data center, met it's needs for AT&T and today, it's not needed since the fiber and service offering dynamics have changed drastically. Premise based circuits are up in the cloud and fiber legs, are now really defined today that old data/carrier buildings that once ran data as a signal continuity regeneration leg, is now not needed.

[PoppinPiggies]

Makes sense, glad someone here had some answers! Very interesting!

[Todd P]

@AtTheWall - are you sure you're not Psaki of the NSA/CIA... LOL had to go there.

[Bullseye07]

Looks like a little data center. The big white room has raised access flooring with removable tile. This is so they can run all over their cabling to the racks etc underfloor and out of sight.


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