[AusNOG] Warrnambool exchange

[Daniel McConville]

Well in this scenario mobile services are easier to restore or provide an
alternative (MEOW / SatCOW for example). If a fire fuses all the copper
together - that is a lot of work to restore individual services so this
Mayor fellow has some valid concerns. An OFDF melting is just as bad as a
Copper MDF Block.

Sure Mobile Towers/Cells use fibre back haul, but they cover a smaller
area... and back haul can be microwave also.

Just my 2c.

-Dan




On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm,
>
> I wonder if these are then the same people who turn around and complain
> about wireless radiation making the children sick and giving every man and
> his dog cancer, or the 'visual pollution' that the antennas/towers cause in
> order to use them.
>
> Damned if you do, damned if you dont.
>
> --Damian
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Jeffrey Sims <jeffy at tehintartubes.net>wrote:
>
>> The whole tone of the article screams "What if the terrorists do it
>> again?", You know what if the exchange were made of cheese would the mice
>> still eat it?
>>
>> We should be relying on Satellites and wireless, the crazy thing here is,
>> what if the ground station of the satellite catches fire? What if the
>> mobile tower falls over? It's all a large amount of "what ifs" and this
>> fire whilst preventable with FM200 realistically, you can plan for every
>> eventuality but where do you draw the line? At the tin foil hat?
>>
>> I just think it must be re-election season down there because he's just
>> getting on his soap box asking for Minister Conroy to make his town feel
>> all warm and fuzzy with the satellite beams from the wireless towers who
>> don't need power or fibre to feed them interbutts.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm, yes. We should all move to wireless because of an outage that cut
>>> both physical lines and wireless (mobile) services, that will fix our
>>> problem! Some one give this guy an award.
>>>
>>> --Damian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Matt Perkins wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Here we go.  It was only a matter of time.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.standard.net.au/**story/1144950/mayor-wants-**
>>>>> answers-over-telstra-**breakdown/?cs=12<http://www.standard.net.au/story/1144950/mayor-wants-answers-over-telstra-breakdown/?cs=12>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Maybe we should be looking further ahead at satellite and wireless
>>>> links rather than relying on physical lines."
>>>>
>>>> <sarcasm>
>>>> Ahh, right, because satellites just can't fail. And even if they did,
>>>> you can courier a replacement there overnight. conroy is on record saying
>>>> that "his" satellites "don't have latency problems"... so it all sounds
>>>> like the perfect solution.
>>>> </sarcasm>
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