[AusNOG] Warrnambool exchange

[Paul Brooks]

On 28/11/2012 21:00, Ramsay, Paul wrote:
>   I understand this stressful situation and hope that the Warnambool exchange gets fixed quickly and that any lessons learned are shared and acted on to help mitigate future risk.

+1

I was at TransACT when the 2003 Canberra bushfires destroyed or depowered a quarter of 
the network.
An example of the 'fate sharing principle' I hope never to see again.

Paul.


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> On 28/11/2012, at 7:30 PM, "Paul Brooks" <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au> wrote:
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>> On 28/11/2012 5:12 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
>>>
>>> Honestly I don't find much fault except that it took them more than 24 hours to move
>>> in any emergency gear. I don't think that is acceptable really.
>> Typically the fire dept control when permission can be granted for people to access
>> the building, once safety inspections and forensic examination has been completed. It
>> can often take a lot more than 24 hours for emergency services to allow access.
>>
>> For a better response time than this you would need to move the emergency gear in to a
>> nearby location outside the building, and patch it into the external cables via
>> manholes outside the building. In this case that would have involved cutting through
>> perfectly good copper and fibre main cables, as the MDF wasn't actually damaged beyond
>> a bit of smoke and soot. Reterminating tens of thousands of copper pairs after cutting
>> through the main cables with an angle-grinder in the outside pit would have taken a
>> bit longer than 24 hours, I expect.
>>
>> Much easier to call 'force majeure'.
>>
>> P.
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