[AusNOG] Fibre across the road from NextDC B1

[Keith Sinclair]

James,

I built a fibre network in Brisbane CBD a while ago and we used duct space
from Energex.

I have the Energex BDM's contact details I will email directly.


Regards


Keith
On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 at 17:59, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Or is this really a “too hard basket” and we should just go to Pipe or
>> Vocus and have them do it?
>>
>>
>>
>> On-list or off-list responses appreciated here.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>>
>> James
>>
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