[AusNOG] Warrnambool Exchange Fire Investigation Report

[Peter Tiggerdine]

One Exchange in 50 years with $10mil recovery price tag, that's $200,000
per year. Seems in the realm of self assuring for the size telstra is.

I suspect the lesson learned will be in records keeping and improving work
around times rather than kiting 15-20 exchanges around the country with
fire suppression systems. Which if they do, I'm sure we'll feeling it in
the wholesale price and the retail price.

Certainly the legislation doesn't compel telstra todo anything.


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au> wrote:

> 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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