Located on Bent street in Cambridge are the original building on the left and the newer
AT&T building on the right.  The AT&T building is now a major IP Backbone for the
New England area.  See  AT&T's Backbone Map.

Transcontinental connections included:
L5 to Boston
24 Fiber MM to Boston
L5/Phillips to Littleton
L3 to Boston
L3 to Medford tower
26 Fiber SM to Framingham
96 Fiber (SM/MM) to Boston

This is a shot of the AT&T and Bell Atlantic buildings as seen from the US Department of Transportation
parking lot. The building on the right was the original building which housed local as well as Long Lines
facilities prior to the breakup of the Bells.  The original facility was constructed to support the NASA
space facility that was to have been in the current USDOT building.  The untimely death of President Kennedy
resulted in President Johnson moving the NASA facility to Houston, TX.

The current USDOT building.  This building was to have been NASA's space control center. Had President
Kennedy not died when he did, the famous phrase would have been "Cambridge we have a problem".

The Cambridge facility also (in 1990) had a short seven mile run of L-3 coax
that ran to this tower in Medford, MA.  This tower had two TD-2 horns that
shot to Lawrence, MA.  The tower now has cellular duty.

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