[AusNOG] Fibre across the road from NextDC B1

[Paul Wilkins]

James,
Do your own cost benefit analysis, but +1 for FSO, if you have line of
sight from roof to roof, and can get access. 1gig should be no problem.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins

On 2 September 2015 at 21:59, James Cunningham <jjazza26 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Ausnog,
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> We have a client who is across the road and three doors up from NextDC B1
> in Brisbane (where we already have some racks), and instead of offering
> them an 40Mbps Ethernet over Copper link (which we can do via AAPT
> Wholesale) I was thinking it may be more cost effective to run 50 meters of
> fibre from B1 directly to their office. Might need to be more the ducts go
> up the street/etc.
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> Normally we would do this via Pipe/AAPT/Vocus etc, but given it’s so
> close, what would be involved in getting our own contractors to run the
> fibre and renting duct space for a 6 core fibre cable?
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> Or is this really a “too hard basket” and we should just go to Pipe or
> Vocus and have them do it?
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> On-list or off-list responses appreciated here.
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> Thank you in advance
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>
> James
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