[AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne

Wed Feb 11 09:32:59 EST 2015

I remember being in London before the tech bust around 2000.

Every week some company was digging up the road, foot path to lay more fibre…

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From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Tees
Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2015 3:40 PM
To: James Braunegg
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne

I suppose its probably struck people here before but doesn't it seem like a waste of resources that companies/agencies need to tear up the earth/roads every time a new company cable/conduit/pipe is installed?

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.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:17 PM, James Braunegg <james.braunegg at micron21.com<mailto:james.braunegg at micron21.com>> wrote:
Dear Matthew

No black suv’s… only lots of trucks passing by if that counts, the day went very smoothly with more work occurring until Friday, but yes we have successfully installed our duct from the north side to the south side outside NextDC M1, pictures can be found here

http://melbournedarkfibre.com/successfully-crossed-lorimer-street-826/

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From: Matthew Barnett [mailto:enterprisenetworks at outlook.com<mailto:enterprisenetworks at outlook.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 3:05 PM
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Subject: RE: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne

So did any Black SUV's suddenly rock up at NextDC today ?

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From: james.braunegg at micron21.com<mailto:james.braunegg at micron21.com>
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 06:03:00 +0000
CC: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne
I’ll be taking lots of photos tomorrow and updating our blog..  ;-)

If you’re in the area come say hi … you won’t miss us we will have traffic management closing down a few lanes outside 826 Lorimer Street

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From: Peter Tiggerdine [mailto:ptiggerdine at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 4:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne

Someone needs to. Take pictures and run :)

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Shaun McGuane <shaun at rackcentral.com<mailto:shaun at rackcentral.com>> wrote:
I think it’s worth getting the deck chairs and an esky and park out front of NextDC
to see if any black SUV’s arrive.

Nice one ☺

Shaun

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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne

Dear Damien

I’ve contacted defense this afternoon after some advice and recommendations… hopefully they reply in time before we start drilling tomorrow.

Either way it will be interesting to see what occurs tomorrow.

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From: Damien Gardner Jnr [mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 4:01 PM
To: James Braunegg
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne

May be defence?  they tend to put stuff in the ground without registering it with the appropriate authorities..  We were having fibre pulled into our DC in Deakin West back in 2002-ish, when the borers hit a pair of unknown orange PVC pipes about 40cm below the footpath.  Called ACT Govt, who double-checked their plans, declared it to be unknown, and said to just rip up whatever was in the way, and continue with our works.

About 3 hours later two black ford explorers (I shit you not!) rocked up with dudes in suits causing quite a ruckus about needing to replace the pipes and not touch them again.  We ended up with one of the planning dudes from ACT Govt out to talk to them.  They wouldn't tell us what was going on, but upshoot was that the pipes had to be replaced before we could continue work.  The dudes in suits refused to identify themselves, so we ended up sending the bill for the extra work to ACT Govt, and they paid it.

Having been (allegedly) chased by the same vehicles after (allegedly, cough) dumpster diving at the defence facility next to Deakin Exchange, I can be pretty sure who owned the pipes :-p

On 9 February 2015 at 14:01, James Braunegg <james.braunegg at micron21.com<mailto:james.braunegg at micron21.com>> wrote:
Mathew

No, we are drilling tomorrow and on Thursday … We have found some unknown objects in the road however… which no provider listed in the street is saying they own…

Info here if you want to check if it’s your asset… … as it’s in the way of where we want to go…. ;)

http://melbournedarkfibre.com/mystery-unknown-metallic-asset-826-lorimer/

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Subject: [AusNOG] Pipe hiccup in Melbourne

James,
Did you drill somewhere you weren't supposed to? :P Looks like Pipe had a hiccup at least in Inner Melbourne around 12:25 for around 15-20 minutes.

Cheers
Matthew

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