[AusNOG] Warrnambool Exchange Fire Investigation Report

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

It's more complex than that - a lot of POIs are, in fact, Telstra
exchanges. So we may in fact need Telstra to install fire suppression not
NBNCo or we'll still lose (one O) a POI in future ...

MMC



On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Jake Anderson <yahoo at vapourforge.com> wrote:

>  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> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 30/03/2013, at 6:19, Tom Storey <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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