Networks
Connectivity roadmap
The museum is not just collecting hardware. It is also rebuilding slices of the networks that gave that hardware a reason to exist.
Network project
PSTN
The museum’s copper-spined heart: analogue lines, exchange behaviour, period dialling, and the sort of elegant violence only old telephony can inflict on modern expectations.
Network project
AMPS
A resurrection plan for Australia’s first cellular era, with a strong bias toward real equipment where possible and tightly-contained RF where necessary.
Network project
Paging
Legacy pagers, message injection, and the small glorious panic of one-way communication brought back to life inside the museum.
Network project
GPRS
Packet data from the awkward middle age, where mobile networks learned to stop being only voices and started pretending to be the internet.
Network project
2G GSM
Voice, SMS, SIM provisioning, and handset interoperability across a generation of Australian mobile hardware that still feels strangely alive.
Network project
Interconnects
Cross-era routing, museum-to-museum links, and carefully chosen ways for dead networks to whisper to each other again.