[AusNOG] Telstra multiple service faults - Chatswood Exchange?

Wed Apr 3 18:03:28 EST 2019

I remember a backhoe incident in the Sydney CBD that cut a mass of fibres...

Good times.

On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 17:43, Nathan Brookfield <
Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:

> Cut is no where near Chatswood, it’s at Ermington on Victoria Road.
> Traffic control is required and the installation of two new pits as well…..
> Catastrophic sounds about right but they’ve been up against worse.
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> *From:* AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> *On Behalf Of *Michael
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:39 PM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Telstra multiple service faults - Chatswood
> Exchange?
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> Hi All,
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> Fibre damage at Chatswood occurred approx. 10pm last night by 3rd party
> drilling.  I think the word that was used to describe this fault was
>  ‘catastrophic’.
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> Many, many pairs affected with 300m of new haul required.  They are ETA to
> starting splicing around 5-6pm tonight, but anyone who has driven around
> Chatswood around peak time will know that traffic will cause nightmares for
> all involved.
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> There is still no ETR, but if you haven’t made alternative arrangements ,
> you’re in for a long wait. My best *guess* is you’re looking at another
> 12-24 hours.
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> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Telstra multiple service faults - Chatswood
> Exchange?
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> Fibre cut in Chatswood apparently.  Go redundancy !
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> On 3/04/2019 12:45 am, Andrew Yager wrote:
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> Hi,
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> We've got a bunch of headend services out in NextDC, Global and Eqx, and I
> see Eqx also have reported a transit outage on their eqx connect product
> (which i'm assuming is telstra cause it lines up), and I know a few other
> people who have services down. The services affected are all likely fed
> from the chatswood exch (although I can't 100% confirm this is the case).
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> Chatting to the Telstra Recall team, it looks like they're currently
> sending techs to a bunch of exchanges around the site and wanting to do
> tests in the DC's; but they all seem to be ignorant of the multiple cases
> for different services
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> Is anyone from Telstra watching along and able to get someone to correlate
> them together? I feel like someone should have picked up the link… but you
> know what they say about assumptions… and I can also see that there hasn't
> been an outage posted about it yet.
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> Andrew
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