[AusNOG] Warrnambool Exchange Fire Investigation Report

[Tom Storey]

No, but cant say I was particularly looking for them. I suppose I kind of
assumed there might be something like a gas based system in there though. I
mean, theres a lot of expensive gear, you'd think you'd want to avoid
damaging it, and/or losing the building. Imagine if they had to rebuild,
the outage would have lasted months, instead of the weeks they managed to
restore service in.

Ignorance aside, and apart from the obvious "it would cost a shit load to
add it to them all", are there any particular reasons why major regional
exchanges wouldn't have fire suppression?

To me it seems that places like Warrnambool and sites with similar
significance (the ones Telstra refer to as KTPs) could probably benefit
from some kind of suppression. These events might be rare, but they have a
big impact when they happen.


On 31 March 2013 23:46, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

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> On 30/03/2013, at 6:19, Tom Storey <tom at snnap.net> wrote:
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> Is it just me, or are there zero mentions of fire suppression systems?
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> There were unlikely to be any.
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> You've been in country telephone exchanges before. Do you recall ever
> seeing a sprinkler head?
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>     - mark
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