[AusNOG] Warrnambool Exchange Fire Investigation Report

[Jake Anderson]

I imagine with the benefit of hindsight they are now doing a 
cost/benefit on each exchange and seeing if its worth putting in.
Its probably cheaper for them to loose service for a while and fix it 
rather than put eleventy million halon systems in.

I do hope NBNco is doing a lessons learnt from this though, their 
concentration feels like its going to be much higher, loosing a POI for 
a couple of weeks would be a "bad thing".
I wonder at what point in the network it would be feasible to slap a 
wireless/satellite/whatever on top of a box and replace the POI (at a 
reduced rate) until the POI is back up.

On 02/04/13 02:29, Tom Storey wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:newton at atdot.dotat.org>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 30/03/2013, at 6:19, Tom Storey <tom at snnap.net
>     <mailto:tom at snnap.net>> wrote:
>
>>     Is it just me, or are there zero mentions of fire suppression
>>     systems?
>>
>     There were unlikely to be any.
>
>     You've been in country telephone exchanges before. Do you recall
>     ever seeing a sprinkler head?
>
>         - mark
>
>
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