The Sydney Morning Herald has a story today about restoring the telecommunications
in flood areas.
Few would envy being the Telstra technician that encountered the five red belly
blacks in a cable pit. See first picture in story here -
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/tec...113-19oz4.html
They also mention -
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Optus released an update today saying that, due to power outages, services were impacted to varying levels in five main areas: South Brisbane and CBD, Lockyer Valley, Ipswich and Kilcoy.
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Most data centres hosting web pages in Queensland, with the exception of AAPT, have remained online despite fears they may be flooded, said Cheyne Jonstone, CEO of VentraIP Group, which offered temporary web hosting to anyone affected by the floods.
''Brisbane has a very large data centre population, there's quite a number of different data centres there and a lot of small-to-medium size hosts as well as MelbourneIT and WebCentral,'' he said.
''As far as I'm aware no services have been adversely impacted and none of the data centres except for AAPT have been actually affected. They were worried about the Pipe data centre but that didn't end up going underwater.''
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Apart from the hazards of encountering venomous snakes, with the amount of water damage that would have occurred to the copper cabling, the
reliability of many phone connections will undoubtedly be compromised for many months to come, long after services are restored,
as the moisture and dirt does its corrosive worse. It will certainly keep phone technicians busy for a very long time.