[AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne

[Sam Silvester]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Mark Tees <marktees at gmail.com> wrote:

> Surely, councils could benefit by some sort of shared tunnel renting
> scheme? I know in Sydney city there is tunnel space rented from Telstra etc.
>
> I know, I know, fairy land thoughts thinking that people might be able to
> work together to avoid additional work.
>
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I've seen a few attempts at this (e.g. councils either installing pit and
pipe with the intention of it being used by other carriers / businesses, or
allowing their own to be used). In my experience it's is rare for it to be
the 'first option' however - either due to the costs and process involved,
or limited space in the duct in question, or it just not being in a useful
location. YMMV as always.

I'm aware of at least a couple of data centres where shared lead in pits
are installed to minimise the number of building entries needing to be
built, but it really comes down to the design of the facility and if they
are aiming to make 3rd party carriers welcome or not :)

Also, co-builds are certainly a thing also to split the cost of a large
civils build.

So to a point, your suggestion is actually happening. You'd possibly be
surprised at how much cooperation does happen, but it isn't always
necessarily that visible.

Sam
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